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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Republicans Are So Over Obama That They Started Leaving Before He Was Done With the State of the Union
They couldn’t wait to be done with the Obama era.
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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite What to Expect From Obama’s Last State of the Union Address
He’ll focus on a big-picture vision for the country’s future—with some plans for how America can get there.
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White House Why the White House Joined Snapchat
The White House is officially cooler than you.
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AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Why One Seat in the First Lady’s Guest Box at the State of the Union Will Be Empty
It’s a visceral symbol of the president’s latest policy passion: gun control.
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DAPA Obama’s Delicate Dance on Immigration
The DHS raids have thrown a wrench in the immigration message, and everyone’s left with a different impression of what Obama is trying to do on immigration.
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AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin President Obama Unveils Gun-Control Measures in Emotional Address
The president on Tuesday teared up as he announced actions to tighten gun restrictions.
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AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais Obama Acts Alone on Gun Control
Despite congressional opposition, the president is expanding background checks and ramping up the enforcement of gun laws.
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AP Photo/Carlos Osorio How the White House Started Taking Donald Trump Seriously
Over a few months, Team Obama went from resisting the “temptation” to weigh in to calling out the Republican front-runner’s “fake hair.”
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AP Photo/Susan Walsh Obama Gives Himself a Pat on the Back for 2015
At his year-end press conference, Obama takes an upbeat line despite public fears of terrorism and falling approval ratings
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Why Obama's Defense of Immigrants Matters
“In the Syrian seeking refuge today, we should see the Jewish refugee of World War II,” the president said Tuesday at a naturalization ceremony.
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Obama Makes the Case—Again—That We’re Not Losing The War Against ISIS
Though we are hitting the terrorist group “harder than ever,” he said, “progress needs to keep coming faster.”
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AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Obama Takes a Veiled Swipe at Trump and Islamophobia
“We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms,” he said Wednesday as he commemorated the abolition of slavery.
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci White House: Donald Trump's "Ban All Muslims" Proposal "Disqualifies Him From Running for President"
Press Secretary Josh Earnest also got in a dig about the Republican front-runner’s “fake hair.”
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AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Why the White House Wants an AUMF, and Why It’s Not Going To Happen
The debate rages over whether the president already has the authority he needs to fight the Islamic State.
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Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP Obama: “The Threat From Terrorism Is Real, But We Will Overcome It”
The president addressed the nation Sunday night about the “evolved” threat of terrorism.
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Shutterstock The Price of Justice
The fees and fines the White House says are crippling the criminal-justice system.
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Obama: It’s “Possible” That San Bernardino Shooting Was Act of Terror
But, the president said, “we do not yet know why this terrible incident occurred.”
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AP Photo/Evan Vucci Obama: Climate Action Is America’s Duty
As the House gears up vote against his climate agenda, Obama says America will act.
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AP Photo/Susan Walsh Obama: The Nation’s Security Is Under Control
“We know of no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland,” the president said Wednesday.
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AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Obama: Climate Summit is “Rebuke to Terrorists”
He and French President Hollande on Tuesday reaffirmed the U.S. and France’s “unity of purpose” in defeating the Islamic State.
