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Published December 28, 2014

FILE: Dec. 19, 2014: President Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, in Washington, D.C.(AP)

President Obama says that race relations in the U.S. have improved during his six years in the White House, amid recent racial tensions sparked by the deaths of two black males during separate police encounters.

I actually think that it's probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided," said the president, according to excerpts of an interview with National Public Radio to be aired starting Monday.

Obama also told the radio network that Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress when members return next week means they can no longer blame the gridlock on him and fellow Democrats who formally controlled the Senate.

Now you've got Republicans in a position where it's not enough for them simply to grind the wheels of Congress to a halt and then blame me," he said.

Obama suggested in the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown -- an unarmed black teen who was killed by a white police officer in August in Ferguson, Missouri -- that race relations in America have improved in the past 40 or 50 years.

"We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the last several decades, Obama said in late November after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson. I have witnessed that in my own life and to deny that progress, I think, is to deny Americas capacity for change.

A new Gallup poll shows Americans' perception of race relations essential unchanged since 2002, with roughly 66 percent of black respondents saying relations are good, compared to 72 percent for non-Hispanic whites.

Obama also told NPR, in the year-end interview with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, that low morale around race relations in the U.S. is exaggerated by the national conversation about the recent violence and not an accurate reflection of the state of affairs around the country.

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President Obama marked the end of Americas longest-ever war Sunday by praising Americans who died in the post-9/11 mission in Afghanistan and trumpeting his efforts to bring troops home, even as he committed to leaving a limited military presence to hand over the bulk of the fight against the Taliban to Afghan forces.

For more than 13 years, ever since nearly 3,000 innocent lives were taken from us on 9/11, our nation has been at war in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama said in a statement released by the White House. Now, thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, our combat mission in Afghanistan is ending, and the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion.

His remarks coincided with a ceremony in the Afghan capital of Kabul to mark the official end of the mission. In front of a small, hand-picked audience at the headquarters of the NATO mission, the green-and-white flag of the International Security Assistance Force was ceremonially rolled up and sheathed, and the flag of the new international mission called Resolute Support was hoisted.

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U.S. Gen. John Campbell, commander of ISAF, commemorated the 3,500 international soldiers killed on Afghan battlefields and praised the countrys army for giving him confidence that they are able to take on the fight alone.

Resolute Support will serve as the bedrock of an enduring partnership between NATO and Afghanistan, Gen. Campbell told an audience of Afghan and international military officers and officials, as well as diplomats and journalists.

The road before us remains challenging, but we will triumph, he added.

Beginning Jan. 1, the new mission will provide training and support for Afghanistans military, with the U.S. accounting for almost 11,000 of the 13,500 members of the residual force.

On Sunday, the Pentagon said the U.S. segment of the mission would be known as Operation Freedoms Sentinel.

Our personnel will continue to face risks, but this reflects the enduring commitment of the United States to the Afghan people and to a united, secure and sovereign Afghanistan that is never again used as a source of attacks against our nation, Mr. Obama said.

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