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President Obama Breaks His Own Rule and Wears a Sparkly Tiara for Girl Scouts Photo – Video
President Obama Breaks His Own Rule and Wears a Sparkly Tiara for Girl Scouts Photo
It must be one of the unwritten traits of being a president: you have to be able to pull off any accessory. President Barack Obama posed with a Girl Scout troop from Tulsa, Ohio for a group...
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Obama’s Next Big Thing in 2015 – Video
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Watch Obama Visits Tech High School in Texas – Video
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http://www.learning-englishonline.com/ Obama Visits Tech High School in Texas From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report. An unusual high school in Texas recently welcomed a special.
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Obama to do 'everything I can'
By Eric Bradner, CNN
updated 9:21 AM EST, Sun December 21, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama says he plans to push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility during his final two years in office -- potentially fulfilling a major campaign promise that he hasn't yet accomplished.
"I'm going to be doing everything I can to close it," Obama said in an interview with CNN's Candy Crowley that aired Sunday on "State of the Union."
"It is something that continues to inspire jihadists and extremists around the world, the fact that these folks are being held," Obama said. "It is contrary to our values."
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The President's comments follow a flurry of executive action at the start of what he called his "fourth quarter" in the Oval Office -- after Republicans walloped Democrats in November's midterm elections, taking control of both houses of Congress.
After the election, Obama quickly announced an overhaul of U.S. immigration rules and new regulations aimed at curbing environmentally-harmful emissions. He followed those moves this week with a deal that represented the biggest steps to thaw the economic freeze with Cuba in decades.
The Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility -- which Obama pledged to shut down as part of his 2008 campaign, but saw his plans thwarted when Congress passed a law prohibiting him from doing so -- could be another target ripe for executive action.
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