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Obama seeks to ease Germany’s concerns on spying

Josh Lederman · July 16, 2014 1:13 am

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the economy at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center in McLean, Va., Tuesday, July 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Dollars for Obama library roll in from NY, Chicago

Josh Lederman · July 15, 2014 5:08 pm

Obama praises Egypt’s cease-fire plan for Israel

Josh Lederman · July 15, 2014 1:44 am

For Obama, ‘hope’ becomes fight against cynicism

Josh Lederman · July 8, 2014 6:59 pm

Obama urges restraint for Israel, Palestinians

Josh Lederman · July 8, 2014 4:16 am

United States' goalkeeper Tim Howard (1) saves a shot during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the USA at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Obama praises US men’s soccer team in phone calls

Josh Lederman · July 3, 2014 12:25 am

President Barack Obama nominates former Procter and Gamble executive Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary as he makes a statement to reporters at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. If confirmed by the Senate, McDonald would succeed Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who resigned last month as the scope of the issues at veterans' hospitals became apparent. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama lauds former CEO as right choice to fix VA

Josh Lederman · July 1, 2014 3:08 am

US sending 300 more US troops to Iraq

Josh Lederman · June 30, 2014 6:19 pm

President Barack Obama picks-up a child while greeting members of the audience after speaking on the economy, Friday, June 27, 2014, at Lake Harriet Band Shell in Minneapolis, Minn. Obama was pitching his ideas to boost the America middle class in Minnesota, a state that has already embraced a key component of the president's economic agenda by raising its minimum wage. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama rips GOP in election-year economic salvo

Josh Lederman · June 27, 2014 4:31 pm

President Barack Obama talks with Rebekah Erler, of Minneapolis at Matts Bar before going to a town hall meeting at Minnehaha Park, Thursday, June 26, 2014, in Minneapolis. The president is in Minneapolis for the first in a series of Day-in-the-Life visits he pans to make across the country this summer. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Jerry Holt, Pool)

Facing headwinds, Obama courts ‘real America’

Josh Lederman · June 27, 2014 1:01 am

President Barack Obama and White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett watch the World Cup soccer match between US and Germany aboard Air Force One enroute to Minnesota, Thursday, June 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama watches US in World Cup on way to Minnesota

Josh Lederman · June 27, 2014 12:48 am

President Barack Obama speaks at the League of Conservation Voters Capitol Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: Climate change steps making a difference

Josh Lederman · June 26, 2014 12:34 am