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Obama rallies Obamacare troops at 'critical time' for program

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama on Thursday urged more than 25,000 volunteers and advocates who dialed in to a White House conference call to pull out the stops to boost the number of people signing up for Obamacare health insurance plans.
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Publish Date:28/October/2016 | 15:29

Obama trolls Trump over 'mean tweet' on late night TV

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama on Monday trolled Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump - known for his prolific use of Twitter to settle scores - making Trump the punch line for jokes on ABC's late-night show "Jimmy Kimmel Live."
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Publish Date:25/October/2016 | 08:54

Obama turns focus to U.S. Congress as he campaigns for Clinton

EghtesadOnline: President Barack Obama on Sunday campaigned in the battleground state of Nevada for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate he wants to succeed him in the White House - but he spent most of his time talking about the state's Senate race.
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Publish Date:24/October/2016 | 08:55

Obama Expects ‘Difficult Fight’ for Islamic State-Held Mosul

EghtesadOnline: An offensive by Kurdish and Iraqi fighters to retake Mosul from Islamic State will be a “difficult fight” but will ultimately end in a victory for the Iraqi government, President Barack Obama said on Tuesday.
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Publish Date:19/October/2016 | 08:48

Congressional Republicans want to talk Tehran, not Trump

EghtesadOnline: Republican U.S. congressional candidates worried that Donald Trump's struggling White House bid will damage them too have seized on one of President Barack Obama 's signature foreign policy initiatives to try to ward off Democrats in the Nov 8 elections.
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Publish Date:19/October/2016 | 07:35

For U.S. and Obama, Mosul campaign is calculated risk

EghtesadOnline: Iraq and the United States have launched a crucial battle to liberate the city of Mosul without determining how its volatile region will be governed once Islamic State militants are ejected, U.S. and other officials said.
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Publish Date:18/October/2016 | 05:39

U.S. top court denies Obama request to rehear major immigration case

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to rehear a bid to revive President Barack Obama 's plan to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, a case in which the justices split 4-4 in June.
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Publish Date:04/October/2016 | 08:18

Obama power plant rules face key test in court

EghtesadOnline: The centerpiece of President Barack Obama 's climate change strategy faced a key test on Tuesday as conservative appeals court judges questioned whether his administration overstepped its legal authority under an air pollution law to make sweeping changes to the U.S. electric sector.
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Publish Date:28/September/2016 | 05:19

U.S. says some 360,000 refugee spots pledged at United Nations

EghtesadOnline: A summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama garnered pledges from dozens of countries to resettle or allow the lawful admission of some 360,000 refugees, doubling the number of slots that were available last year, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said.
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Publish Date:21/September/2016 | 10:59
He glossed over his own role spreading the conspiracy theory, which was central to his rise in the Republican Party.

Why Donald Trump's Reversal Won't Put 'Birtherism' Behind Him

EghtesadOnline: Delivered at the tail end of an event unveiling the endorsements of several military veterans, including one with birther views, Donald Trump's reversal on his years-long campaign of doubting the birthplace of President Barack Obama sent mixed signals to his base and the skeptics he's trying to win over.
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Publish Date:18/September/2016 | 10:13

Obama enlists Republican Kasich to push for TPP trade deal

EghtesadOnline: Ohio's Republican governor, John Kasich, took over the White House briefing lectern on Friday to praise the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, an unusual move that shows how hard President Barack Obama will push for the trade deal's approval.
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Publish Date:17/September/2016 | 08:26

Trump would undo Obama's Cuba moves unless religious freedom allowed

EghtesadOnline: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Friday that if elected he would seek to reverse President Barack Obama 's moves to open relations with Cuba unless the leaders there allowed religious freedoms and freed political prisoners.
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Publish Date:17/September/2016 | 07:26

Trump finally backs off Obama birth claim, falsely says Clinton started it

EghtesadOnline: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday abandoned his false claim that Barack Obama was not born in the United States after spending five years peddling conspiracy theories that the country's first African-American president started life as a foreigner.
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Publish Date:17/September/2016 | 07:17

Suu Kyi to meet Obama in Washington for first time as Myanmar leader

EghtesadOnline: Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Barack Obama on Wednesday in her first visit to the United States since her party won a sweeping victory in last year's election, capping a decades-long journey from political prisoner to national leader.
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Publish Date:14/September/2016 | 05:31

Democrats launch new push for Obama U.S. Supreme Court nominee

EghtesadOnline: Supporters of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama 's U.S. Supreme Court selection, on Tuesday launched a new push to persuade the Republican-led Senate to act on the nomination before the Nov. 8 presidential election, but their calls fell on deaf ears.
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Publish Date:07/September/2016 | 07:38

U.S. companies tout climate policies, fund climate skeptics

EghtesadOnline: U.S. companies that have expressed the most fervent public support for President Barack Obama ’s environmental agenda are also funding its biggest enemies - the scores of U.S. lawmakers who are climate change skeptics and oppose regulation to combat it.
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Publish Date:06/September/2016 | 06:50