Reuters – In a bid to end a worsening standoff over extending a tax break for Americans, President Barack Obama called on Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday to pass a short-term extension and return to talks on a year-long deal in the New Year.
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Reuters – It may not help the economy, but President Barack Obama found another move he can make without congressional approval on Wednesday: pardon a turkey.
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Reuters – Myanmar vowed on Saturday to address concerns raised by President Barack Obama, outlining far-reaching plans to make peace with ethnic rebels, gradually release all political prisoners and relax controls on freedom of expression.
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Emboldened by Obama, Myanmar maps out
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AP – Signaling a determination to counter a rising China, President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to expand U.S. influence in the Asia-Pacific region and “project power and deter threats to peace” in that part of the world even as he reduces defense spending and winds down two wars.
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Countering China, Obama asserts US a Pacific power
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Reuters – President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the U.S. military would expand its role in the Asia-Pacific region despite budget cuts, declaring America was “here to stay” as a Pacific power which would help shape the region’s future.
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Obama tells Asia, U.S. "here to stay"
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Reuters – President Barack Obama’s top national security adviser delayed a planned trip to China and India last week to help Obama deal with Libya and a decision on U.S. troops in Iraq, the White House said on Friday.
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Top Obama aide delays trip to China, India: White House
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Reuters – With Hispanic voters upset at Republican presidential candidates over immigration, President Barack Obama played to a Latino audience on a trip to the West this week to shore up support from a group that is key to his re-election hopes.
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Obama nods to Hispanics in West as Republicans slip
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Reuters – President Barack Obama is bombarding Americans with job initiatives that may lack economic heft but show him as an activist leader compared to a ‘do-nothing’ Congress as he campaigns for re-election in 2012.
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Analysis: Obama’s moves pack political rather than economic heft
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Reuters – President Barack Obama is taking steps to ease the burden of student loans, the White House said on Tuesday, potentially helping millions of cash-strapped college graduates in a tough economy.
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Obama acts to ease burden of student loans
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Reuters – President Barack Obama plans to use his executive powers to ease the burden of student loan repayments by allowing loans to be bundled and by accelerating an income-based repayment program, the White House said on Tuesday.
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