President Barack Obama
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AP-GfK Poll: Pessimism on economy increasing
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For the third year in a row, the nation's economic recovery has hit a springtime soft spot. Reflecting that weakness, only 1 in 4 Americans now expects his or her own financial situation to improve over the next year.
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President Obama speaks at Boston Marathon service
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President Barack Obama declared "there is a piece of Boston in me" as he paid tribute to a city shaken by what he has called an act of terror. He said: "Every one of us stands with you."
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President Obama slams senators who opposed gun measure
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A visibly infuriated President Barack Obama declared it a "pretty shameful day for Washington" after the Senate rejected a measure designed to make it tougher for criminals to get their hands on guns.
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President Barack Obama to visit Boston on Thursday
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says Obama will be attending an interfaith service.
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Obama earned less in 2012, pays $112k in taxes
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President Obama made less in 2012 than in any other year since taking office, with about 40 percent of the nearly $609,000 in income that he and first lady Michelle Obama reported coming from book sales.
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President Obama awards posthumous Medal of Honor
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An Army chaplain who the White House says braved "withering enemy fire" to provide medical aid and comfort to fellow soldiers during the Korean War is receiving the Medal of Honor more than 60 years after his death.
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Smithsonian requests $59M increase in budget proposal
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The Smithsonian Institution is requesting an increase of $59 million in President Barack Obama's budget proposal for new education programs and to continue building a new black history museum on the National Mall.
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Obama budget 2014: Obama creates $3.8 trillion plan
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The president's budget projects deficit reductions of $1.8 trillion over the next decade, achieved with higher taxes, reductions in payments to Medicare providers and trims in many government programs.
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Hollywood stars call for drug law changes
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Lil Wayne, Ron Howard, Scarlett Johansson and Kim Kardashian are all on the same page when it comes to criminal justice reform.
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Obama to bring some Sandy Hook families on AF1
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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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Obama budget plan revisits small-bore budget cuts
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Obama proposes some $200 billion in savings outside of health care costs, including a new fee on telecommunications companies and other users of federally licensed communications spectrum and billions of dollars claimed by selling off excess federal properties.
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Budget calls for 4 percent spending increase at VA
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President Barack Obama will propose increasing discretionary spending at the Department of Veterans Affairs by 4 percent.
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Gun control a tougher slog than immigration: Obama
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Conceding the fraught politics of guns, President Barack Obama said Thursday that passing legislation curbing access to firearms would be a tougher slog than immigration reform.
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Obama gun control push: President makes push in Colorado
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While in Denver, President Barack Obama stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines.
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President Obama to attend President Bush library opening
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The White House says President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend the opening of former President George W. Bush's presidential library later this month in Dallas.
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White House Easter Egg Roll brings in celebrities, excited children
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The annual White House Easter Egg Roll attracted 30,000 children and parents to the Executive Mansion's South Lawn for a day of festivities.
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Obama: Easter, Passover a time to pray, reflect
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In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the Easter and Passover holidays give millions of Christians, Jews and people of other faiths a chance to slow down and recommit themselves to loving their neighbors and seeing everyone as a child of God.
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Obama to release budget outline April 10
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Under the law, the president was supposed to submit a budget on Feb. 4. But White House aides said deliberations over spending in the past few months delayed the release of Obama's blueprint.
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