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President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at Lehman College in the Bronx borough of New York, Monday, May 4, 2015. Obama announced the creation of an independent nonprofit organization that is a spin off his "My Brother's Keeper" program, which works to give young men of color more opportunities through mentoring and business partnerships.

Obama: Wealthy Ignore Poverty By Sending Kids To Private Schools

“Kids start going to private schools, kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks, an anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together,” President Obama said at Georgetown University. His daughters attend Sidwell Friends, an expensive private school.

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Obama: We Have to Change How Fox News Reports on Poverty

Tuesday at Georgetown University President Barack Obama discussed poverty at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit and argued Fox News intentionally divides the country by  highlighting poor people who make even him mad by asking for free “Obamaphones.” Obama argued if we are going to end poverty,

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Obama Complains to UN About America’s ‘Human Rights’ Violations

The Obama administration has, once again, complained to the United Nations about alleged American human rights violations–and boasted about liberal policies like Obamacare as the solution. The State Department report, released Monday as part of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN Human Rights Council, reads less like an accounting of human rights issues and more like the platform of the Democratic Party–and invites the world to judge America harshly.

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Obama Working Against Democrats to Push ‘Fast-Track’ Trade Bill

On Tuesday, a bill designed to confer trade promotion authority on President Obama, known as “fast-track,” will come before the Senate. Obama and his administration have been working overtime to convince recalcitrant Democrats loyal to labor unions not to abandon him in the House and Senate and work with the GOP to defeat the bill

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President Obama Marks V-E Day In Weekly Address

President Obama marked the 70th anniversary of V-E Day in his weekly address released on Friday. Transcript as Follows: “Hello, everybody.  Today marks an historic anniversary—70 years since the Allied victory in Europe during World War II.  On V-E Day

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Maher: Obama ‘A Centrist President’

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson for comments he made about President Obama, who is “a centrist president” on Friday. Maher said, “Ben Carson got in today. Ben Carson has said, today he said Obama ‘reminds

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Meet the Actor Set to Play Young Obama in Romantic Biopic

In December, a romantic biopic about the life of President Barack Obama prior to his life in national politics was announced, with a note that a search for a suitable actor to play a young future president was underway. According to Deadline, the search is over.