Nedra Pickler

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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden , left, is greeted upon arrival at Borispol airport outside Kiev, Ukraine, Monday April 21, 2014. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Ukraine's acting president, Oleksander Turchinov, and Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk on Tuesday, during a visit to Kiev. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

National Security

Joe Biden in Ukraine to show support as tensions rise

Nedra Pickler · April 21, 2014 7:08 pm

Obama signs bill aimed at blocking Iran’s UN envoy

Nedra Pickler · April 19, 2014 2:58 am

President Barack Obama meets with faith leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama seeks inmates worthy of commutation power

Nedra Pickler · April 16, 2014 7:08 am

Obama cuts sentence with typo, plans more clemency

Obama cuts sentence with typo, plans more clemency

Nedra Pickler · April 15, 2014 10:08 pm

President Barack Obama talks to Jake Miller, left, accompanied by Ellyn Miller, behind Jake, brother and mother of Gabriela Miller, before signing into law the H.R. 2019, the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama signs cancer research bill in memory of girl

Nedra Pickler · April 3, 2014 9:59 pm

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about his proposal to raise the national minimum wage, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., . (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

In Michigan, Obama presses for higher minimum wage

Nedra Pickler · April 3, 2014 12:19 am

White House ‘disappointed’ in donor limit ruling

White House ‘disappointed’ in donor limit ruling

Nedra Pickler · April 2, 2014 5:22 pm

President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, about the Affordable Care Act. The deadline to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act passed at midnight Monday night. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama celebrates 7.1 million health care sign-ups

Nedra Pickler · April 1, 2014 8:58 pm

Obama signs relief from flood insurance hike

Obama signs relief from flood insurance hike

Nedra Pickler · March 21, 2014 6:14 pm

President Barack Obama speaks at the screening of the film 'Cesar Chavez', Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in the Old Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The movie biopic is directed by Diego Luna about the Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama arguing for women’s educational opportunity

Nedra Pickler · March 20, 2014 7:15 am

Obama invites G7 leaders for meeting on Ukraine

Obama invites G7 leaders for meeting on Ukraine

Nedra Pickler · March 18, 2014 10:28 am

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2014, photo, Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Surgeon General, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. The White House is backing off its push for quick confirmation of Obama's pick to be surgeon general in the face of opposition from the National Rifle Association and concerns among Democrats up for re-election who don't want to make another tough vote on a controversial nominee. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

White House backing off surgeon general, for now

Associated Press, Nedra Pickler · March 14, 2014 9:55 pm