WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said China has made inquiries about potentially joining a Trans-Pacific trade agreement in the future, introducing a new variable to an unfolding debate in Congress over granting him the power to negotiate such international deals.
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WATERTOWN, S.D. - President Richard Nixon did it in less than three years. President George H.W. Bush completed it in one term. President Barack Obama has now matched their feat by visiting South Dakota, his 50th state, on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - Acknowledging the struggles of the nation's veterans, President Barack Obama on Thursday signed legislation intended to reduce the high rate of suicide claiming the lives of soldiers and former members of the military by the day.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will propose an election-year budget that would drop reductions he had previously embraced in federal benefits, officials disclosed Thursday. He also will ask Congress to approve about $56 billion in new or expanded programs, stepping back from aggressive efforts to tackle long-term government deficits and …
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TOLUCA, Mexico - President Barack Obama on Wednesday touted the shared "commitment to trade" between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, while trying to reassure America's neighbors that he would seek to expand their economic alliances despite political resistance from his own Democratic Party.
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WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday that President Barack Obama briefly lived with an uncle who faced deportation from the United States, correcting its previous statements that the president had never met Onyango Obama.
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