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Germany Says President Obama To Visit In June

Associated Press — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:49:13 +0000

BERLIN (AP) — The German government says U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Germany to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other officials next month.

Spokesman Georg Streiter said Friday that Obama will be in Berlin June 18-19

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Obama: US-Mexico Stereotypes Must Be Broken

Associated Press — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:57:45 +0000

MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama says he wants to set aside old stereotypes that have created misunderstanding between Mexico and the United States. He says Mexico is an emerging nation that is remaking itself and that the U

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AG, FBI Director To Brief Obama On Bombing Probe

Associated Press — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:17:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is being briefed on the developments in Boston Marathon bombing investigation by Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller and several other national security officials

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Obama Promoting Gun Legislation In Connecticut

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:57:25 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to boost the chances of gun legislation that could be in jeopardy this week with a trip to the home state of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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Official: Obama Proposes Cuts To Social Security

Associated Press — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:55:06 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing cuts to Social Security as an attempt to compromise with Republicans on the budget.

A senior administration official says the budget Obama will offer to Congress next Wednesday would reduce the deficit by $1

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Obama Ending Israel Visit With Symbolic Stops

Associated Press — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:50:53 +0000

JERUSALEM (AP) — President Barack Obama says Israel's Holocaust memorial illustrates the depravity to which man can sink but says it is also a reminder of the rescuers and the "righteous among nations who refused to be bystanders

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Rockets Hit Israel As Obama To Meet Palestinians

Associated Press — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:45:20 +0000

JERUSALEM (AP) — On the second day of a Mideast tour, U.S. President Barack Obama is set to emphasize the importance of reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, a message underscored when militants in Gaza launched rockets into southern Israel.

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Obama Concedes Budget Deal May Be Impossible

Associated Press — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:52:33 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is conceding "we're probably not going to be able to get a deal" on budget, tax and spending issues with Congress if Republicans continue to insist that no new revenues can be raised unless entitlement programs are significantly overhauled

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Obama Nominates Wal-Mart's Burwell As Budget Chief

Associated Press — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:58:19 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has selected the head of the Wal-Mart Foundation as his budget director in the midst of a partisan battle over government spending.

Obama announced his selection of Sylvia Mathews Burwell at the White House Monday, noting that she comes on as the government grapples with $85 billion in automatic cuts

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Obama, Top Lawmakers To Meet Friday On Budget Cuts

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:10:32 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will meet Friday with congressional leaders to discuss what to do about $85 billion in mandatory spending cuts.

The top Democrat and Republican in both the House and Senate will attend

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Senate Confirms Hagel As Secretary of Defense

Associated Press — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:17:27 +0000

Former Republican U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel has cleared Senate confirmation to become the nation's Secretary of Defense

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As Cuts Looms, Obama Meets With Governors

Bruce Dougherty — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:24 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will be meeting with the nation's governors as they push Congress to avert deep federal spending cuts that begin to take effect Friday.

The state leaders are in Washington for the annual meeting of the National Governors Association. The

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Obama Warns Sequester Will Cause Job Losses

Associated Press — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:23:16 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is warning that "people will lose their jobs" if across-the-board budget cuts take effect as scheduled next week.

Obama says the $85 billion in cuts — known as the sequester — are "severe" and says they won't help the economy and won't create jobs

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Obama To Stress Jobs During State Of The Union Address

Associated Press — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:45:41 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The American public will get rhetoric and imagery in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. The speech will contain a heavy dose on the economy and play out against a visual backdrop dominated by the nation's current debate over guns

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Obama To Ask For Short Term Budget Plan

Associated Press — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:09:36 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials say President Barack Obama will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1

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Obama To Campaign For Gun Proposals In Minnesota

Associated Press — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:37:23 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is seeking to rally support from the public and the law enforcement community for his calls to ban assault weapons and require universal background checks for gun buyers

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U.S. Pays Tribute To King As Obama Begins New Term

Associated Press — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:52:00 +0000

ATLANTA (AP) — The youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. hailed the inauguration of the nation's first black president to a new term as one of the achievements made possible by the civil rights struggle her father helped lead decades ago

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Obama: We Must Reduce Health Costs, Deficit

Associated Press — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:36:02 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the nation must make the "hard choices" to reduce the cost of health care and the size of the deficit.

But the president said every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity, and he held up Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as commitments that strengthen America

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Obama Pledges To Deal With Climate Change

Associated Press — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:32:53 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is pledging to respond to what he calls "the threat of climate change."

He says that failing to do so would be a betrayal of the nation's children, and of future generations

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Obama Get Second Swearing-In For Second Term

Associated Press — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:53:36 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — His second term already under way, President Barack Obama hopes to set an optimistic tone when he takes the oath again. This divided nation is seeking solutions to economic woes at home and conflict overseas

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