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  • President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014, as Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Obama Vows To Flex Presidential Powers In Speech

    WASHINGTON  — Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress “whenever and wherever” necessary to narrow economic disparities between America’s rich and poor. He unveiled […]

  • President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

    FACT CHECK: Obama And Medicare Premiums

    WASHINGTON — It seems to be something of an occupational hazard for President Barack Obama: When he talks about his health care law, he’s bound to hit a fact bump sooner or later. So it went Tuesday night, when he […]

  • President Barack Obama walks along the Colonnade at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, hours before giving his State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama Vows To Act ‘Wherever And Whenever’ He Can

    WASHINGTON — Declaring that upward economic mobility has stalled for millions of Americans, President Barack Obama is challenging a deeply divided Congress to restore the nation’s belief in “opportunity for all” – while telling lawmakers he will act on his […]

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  • Tuesday night's State of the Union speech. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Obama Vowing To Flex Presidential Powers In Speech

    WASHINGTON  — Frustrated by years of partisan gridlock, President Barack Obama is moving to flex his presidential powers during his sixth year in office. He’s starting by using Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to announce executive actions to […]

  • FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama waves and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio applauds after the president gave his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

    White House Warns Obama Could Go Around Congress

    WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama will work with Congress where he can and circumvent lawmakers where he must, his top advisers warned Sunday in previewing Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. Obama faces a politically divided Congress on Tuesday and […]

  • FILE - This Oct. 13, 2012 file photo shows Fox News commentator and author Bill O'Reilly at the Comedy Central "Night Of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together For Autism Programs" at the Beacon Theatre in New York. President Barack Obama will be interviewed live at the White House by Fox News’ O’Reilly during the Super Bowl pregame show. Fox said Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, the interview will air at 4:30 p.m., less than two hours before the game, which is being televised on Feb. 2 by the Fox broadcast network.  (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invsion/AP, file)

    Fox’s O’Reilly To Interview Obama

    NEW YORK  — President Barack Obama will be interviewed live at the White House by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly during the Super Bowl pregame show. Fox said Thursday the interview will air at 4:30 p.m., less than two hours before […]

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    Government Panel Urges End To Phone Data Spying

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided government task force that reviewed the National Security Agency’s surveillance program for four months has urged President Barack Obama to shut down the agency’s bulk collection of phone data and purge its massive inventory […]

  • FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama laughs during his first prime time televised news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington.  Five years into his presidency, the verdict on Obama is: nice guy, so-so president. A new AP-GfK Poll finds that less than a third of Americans consider Obama to be an above-average president. But nearly twice as many find him likable. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

    Poll: People See Obama As Nice Guy …

    WASHINGTON  — Nice guy, so-so president. Taking stock of President Barack Obama at the five-year mark in his term, less than a third of Americans consider him to be an above-average chief executive. Nearly twice as many find him likable. […]

  • Obama Targets College Sexual Assault Epidemic

    Obama Targets College Sexual Assault Epidemic

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is launching an initiative to combat sexual assault on college campuses, turning the spotlight on a problem that has devastated millions of Americans yet rarely receives such White House attention. Obama planned to sign a […]

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  • President Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha, right, make burritos at DC Central Kitchen as part of a service project in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,  Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in Washington. Also helping were first lady Michelle Obama and daughter Malia Obama. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    Obama To Meet With Pope Francis In March

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican as part of a European trip scheduled for March. The White House says Obama “looks forward to discussing with Pope Francis their shared commitment to fighting poverty […]

  • Colorado became the first US state where shops could legally sell recreational marijuana on January 1

    Obama: Pot Is Not More Dangerous Than Alcohol

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he doesn’t think marijuana is more dangerous than alcohol, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.” “As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as […]

  • Lawmakers Say Obama Surveillance Idea Won’t Work

    Lawmakers Say Obama Surveillance Idea Won’t Work

    WASHINGTON  — A chief element of President Barack Obama’s attempt to overhaul U.S. surveillance will not work, leaders of Congress’ intelligence committees said Sunday, pushing back against the idea that the government should cede control of how Americans’ phone records […]

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  • President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S.  surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama Tightens Reins On Surveillance Programs

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Tightening the reins on the nation’s sweeping surveillance operations, President Barack Obama on Friday ordered new limits on the way intelligence officials access phone records from hundreds of millions of Americans – and moved toward eventually stripping […]

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    Obama Says Foreign Countries Rely On NSA Data

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says some of the foreign governments most loudly criticizing the National Security Agency’s spying programs are relying on the data themselves. Obama says a number of countries publicly criticizing U.S. data collection privately acknowledge that […]

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    Obama Backs Limits On NSA Phone Collections

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government’s control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive […]

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  • Obama To Back Modest Gov’t Surveillance Reforms

    Obama To Back Modest Gov’t Surveillance Reforms

    WASHINGTON  — Capping a monthslong review, President Barack Obama is expected to back modest changes to the government’s surveillance network at home and abroad while largely leaving the framework of the controversial programs in place, including the bulk collection of […]

  • Republican lawmakers arrive at the Capitol as the Senate votes to approve a $1.1 trillion spending package, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the likelihood of an election-year government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. From left to right are: Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. The legislation is a follow-up to the budget compromise the two parties pushed through Congress in December that set overall spending limits for the next two years.   (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Senate Easily Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent President Barack Obama a $1.1 trillion government-wide spending bill Thursday, easing the harshest effects of last year’s automatic budget cuts after tea party critics chastened by October’s partial shutdown mounted only a faint protest. The […]

  • President Barack Obama speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, in Washington. Faced with Edward Snowden’s first secret surveillance leaks, President Barack Obama’s message to Americans boiled down to this: trust me. But as the disclosures piled up, it became clear to the president that the public’s confidence in the government’s oversight of the spying programs was shaky. That jarring realization spurred a months-long White House review that will culminate Friday with new recommendations aimed in part at restoring the public’s trust in a surveillance apparatus expected to remain largely in place. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    For Obama, NSA Review A Quest For Public Ttrust

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Faced with Edward Snowden’s first leaks about the government’s sweeping surveillance apparatus, President Barack Obama’s message to Americans boiled down to this: trust me. “I think on balance, we have established a process and a procedure that […]

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  • President Barack Obama arrives to talks about the economy, jobs and manufacturing, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Obama Announces Manufacturing Institute In NC

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Making good on a promise from last year’s State of the Union to help create good-paying American jobs, President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a new public-private manufacturing hub in North Carolina to develop next-generation power […]

  • President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

    President Obama Says He Will Focus On Executive Actions

    WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama predicts Congress will be busy this year debating a renewal of jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and an immigration overhaul. But he says he wants his Cabinet also to focus on executive actions that […]

  • FILE - In this June 3, 2013 file photo, Robert Wilkins, President Barack Obama's nominee to the District of Columbia Circuit Court, listens in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The Senate confirmed Wilkins to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

    Senate Completes Overhaul Of Key Appeals Court

    WASHINGTON  — The Senate confirmed one of President Barack Obama’s key judicial nominees on Monday, completing an overhaul of the country’s second most powerful court into one dominated by Democratic-appointed judges. The Senate voted 55-43 to confirm Robert Wilkins to […]

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  • Obama Names Fischer As Fed Vice Chair: White House

    Obama Names Fischer As Fed Vice Chair: White House

    WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday nominated former Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer and two others to round out the top ranks of the Federal Reserve just as the U.s. central bank begins winding down its historic stimulus. […]

  • FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The president is hosting a series of meetings this week with lawmakers, privacy advocates and intelligence officials as he nears a final decision on changes to the government's controversial surveillance programs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Obama Expected To Curb NSA Access To Phone Records

    WASHINGTON  — President Barack Obama is expected to restrict National Security Agency access to Americans’ phone records and rein in spying on foreign leaders, according to people familiar with a White House review of the government’s surveillance programs. Obama could […]

  • FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. President Barack Obama is hosting a series of meetings this week with lawmakers, privacy advocates and intelligence officials as he nears a final decision on changes to the government's controversial surveillance programs.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

    President Obama Nearing A Decision On Intelligence Review

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is hosting a series of meetings this week with lawmakers, privacy advocates and intelligence officials as he nears a final decision on changes to the government’s controversial surveillance programs. Obama could announce the changes as […]

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