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After repeated attempts to receive aid to help with the Mexican refugee crisis have failed, Texas officials have been forced to take drastic measures.
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President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Monday that protects gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees from discrimination by companies that do federal government work, fulfilling a promise to a crucial Democratic bloc.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry is to push for an "immediate" ceasefire in Gaza when he arrives later Monday in Cairo, President Barack Obama said.
In the Media
by AFP
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is building a case against pro-Russian separatists and Russia itself, insisting they are responsible for downing Malaysian Flight MH17 over Ukrainian skies. He outlined his country's case on political talk shows Sunday.
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Media reports say Russian separatists have taken 196 bodies from the downed Malaysian airliner and are holding them hostage.
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The Obama administration on Friday cleared the way for what could end up being another oil and gas boom, this time offshore along the Eastern seaboard. The announcement was applauded by U.S. oil and gas companies and the business world, but not by me.
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The Obama administration on Friday cleared the way for what could end up being another oil and gas boom, this time offshore along the Eastern seaboard. The announcement was applauded by U.S. oil and gas companies and the business world, but not by me.
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Officials behind the European brain mapping effort have taken steps to tackle concerns voiced about the project from the scientific community.
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New York City -
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused to give it up Tuesday, keeping her presidential ambitions under wraps under direct questioning from late night talk-show host Jon Stewart on his show, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”
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President Barack Obama was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009, and the Dow was at 7,949.09. The Dow bottomed on March 9, 2009, at 6,547.05, which was then at its lowest level since 1997. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also hit bottom between those dates.
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Chicago -
The pathetic failures of the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, probably will mean he is not only the worst president the country has had, but the worst one it will ever have.
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Washington, D. C. -
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, in an interview with ABC News’ Pierre Thomas, made it clear that he and President Barack Obama have been "treated differently," citing a "racial component" and adding that for "some there’s a racial animus.”
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Recently, four teachers sat down with president Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for lunch at the White House. They did not tell these men what they needed to hear.
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Los Angeles -
Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time, last night called out Republicans and their Fox News counterparts, for years of lying about Obamacare, continuing to tell Obamacare lies and refusing to even apologize once the lies have proven to be untrue.
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Washington D.c. -
A recent Gallup poll showed an astonishing 72% of Muslims support the policies and presidency of Barack Obama. Although Muslim-American academics explained the reason he is supported, they ignore reasons Muslims should condemn Obama's policies.
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In an effort to support small businesses, Obama is pushing for major corporations to pay suppliers more quickly, as revealed by The White House on Friday.
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President Barack Obama is challenging congressional Republicans to craft meaningful legislation rather than simply try to oppose him. Will 2016 be a redux of the 1940 presidential election?
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Denver -
President Barack Obama was on the road this week not only fund raising for the Democratic Party, but also meeting and having dinner with five everyday Americans in Denver, all of whom had written him letters about their own life successes and struggles.
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More than 250 European researchers have signed a letter criticizing the European Commission’s (EC) $1.6 billion effort to create a computer simulation of the human brain.
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Denver -
Sometimes it seems that if Colorado isn’t the center of the universe, at least it is the center of the United States. Take same-sex marriage or marijuana.
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Denver -
On Tuesday night President Obama shook hands with a man wearing a horse mask. A photo was taken, and it has gone viral ever since being shared on the Internet.
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Tel Aviv -
After several days of Hamas rocket attacks launched from Palestine’s Gaza Strip, Israel has responded with extensive airstrikes from air and sea, hitting Hamas rocket launchers, training bases and weapons caches.
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The Obama administration is facing a potentially lethal threat to its healthcare reform law as a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit prepares to rule on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
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Washington -
Mitt Romney has become the subject of speculations about a third presidential run. Speculation has increased following a Quinnipiac poll that found that about 45 percent of voters think "the nation would be better off if Romney had become President."
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Washington -
Something unexpected happened to Barack Obama as he slipped toward the lame duck inertia that stifles second term presidencies.
In the Media
by Stephen Collinson (AFP)
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Washington, D. C. -
Unfortunately, it's far too early to tell whether U.S. President Barack Obama's recent proposal to spend $500 million in support of Syrian rebels will accomplish anything.
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Washington -
America’s reliance on secretive drone missile strikes against terror suspects has set a "dangerous precedent" that could be imitated by other countries and trigger wider wars around the world, former senior U.S. officials said in a report Thursday.
In the Media
by Dan De Luce (AFP)
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US President Barack Obama mocked Republicans who reject global warming as a "liberal plot," as he pumped up a crowd of environmental activists in Washington.
In the Media
by AFP
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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner claimed Wednesday he is planning to file a lawsuit against President Barack Obama arguing that the president has abused his executive powers by issuing policies without the consent of Congress.
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An ex-marine under the pseudonym name of Captain Kaye claims he has spent the last 17 years living on Mars defending the human colonies from martians.
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President Barack Obama (center) with Afghan President Karzai and Pakistan President Zardari during a US-Afghan-Pakistan Trilateral meeting in Cabinet Room
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U.S. President Barack Obama
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President Obama places a wreath at the site of the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero.
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John Brennan briefs Obama about Sandy Hook shootings
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President Barack Obama visits with a platoon of U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan that recently lost six members, Dec. 3, 2010. The President made an overnight trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.
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SNL Premiered with Jay Pharoah as new Barack Obama
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President Barack Obama in the Situation Room of the White House.
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Barack Obama and Netanyahu in the Oval Office
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Pictured is VP Joe Biden, U.N. envoy Susan Rice and President Barack Obama.
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President Barack Obama was sworn in for a second term as president during a private ceremony with the first family at the White House
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The son of Capt. Greg Wagner, aide to the deputy commanding general of U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific, gives President Barack Obama quite a mouthful at Anderson Hall Dining Facility
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Pro-Obama artwork in Haight Ashbury pre the 2008 election.
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Yogi Berra signing his special gift photo for President Obama
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Obama to Northern Ireland's youth: "You're an inheritor of a just and hard-earned peace"
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President Barack Obama greets doctors and nurses following his remarks about health care reform in the East Room of the White House
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U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announces a class action lawsuit over NSA spying revelations that he has filed along with FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe (R) against U.S. President Barack Obama, outside the U.S. District Court in Washington February 12, 2014
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden talk with then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China and members of the Chinese delegation following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, Feb. 14, 2012
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President Barack Obama talks with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano aboard Air Force One en route to Las Vegas, Nev
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President Barack Obama has delivered a speech to the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the headquarters of the UN in New York
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President Obama at the Coast Guard Venice Center in Louisiana,
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