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Watch President Obama Discuss the NSA and Syria Tonight on Charlie Rose

President Barack Obama participates in an interview with Charlie Rose in the White House Library, Sunday, June 16, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) Before leaving for this week's G-8 summit in the United Kingdom, President Obama sat down with Charlie Rose in the White House Library for a 45-minute interview on topics […]

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50 Years of National Small Business Week

Ed Note: This is a cross post from the blog of sba.gov. You can find the original post here. This year marks the 50th anniversary of National Small Business Week.  Although things have certainly changed since President Kennedy signed the first Presidential Proclamation in 1963, one thing that hasn’t changed is America’s entrepreneurial spirit and the […]

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Our 13 Favorite Photos of President Obama Being a Dad

Click here to see the photo gallery.   President Obama has a lot of important responsibilities in the White House, but he’s said that no job is more important than being a father to his two daughters. We’ve put together a quick slide show of some of our favorite moments of the President being a […]

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Weekly Address: Celebrating Father’s Day Weekend

President Obama discusses Father’s Day and notes that nothing substitutes for the love and support of the presence of a parent in a child’s life. Transcript | Download mp4 | Download mp3 Fonte: White House

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Four Years of Broadband Growth

A fast, reliable Internet connection is as essential to the modern economy as electricity or phone service, and over the last four years, the country has made tremendous progress investing in and delivering high-speed broadband to an unprecedented number of Americans. Today we are releasing a new White House report entitled Four Years of Broadband […]

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Making America A Little More Equal

Leaders within the LGBT community were invited to the White House yesterday to kick-off Pride month with a reception hosted by President Obama. Introducing the President were 9 year old twins, Zea and Luna, who wrote a letter to President Obama earlier this year asking him to support same-sex marriage. They explained that they were […]

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Growing Bipartisan Support for ConnectED

Last week, the President issued a new challenge for our nation – one that families, businesses, school districts and the federal government can rally around together – to connect virtually every student with access to cutting-edge technology as part of a competitive, 21st century education.  The new ConnectED initiative he announced was a bold, transformative vision […]

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West Wing Week: 06/14/13 or “There’s an App for That”

This week, the President hosted the new President of China at a two-day informal summit in California, spoke on the importance of supporting the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and comprehensive immigration reform, promoted a top economic advisor, and honored the LGBT community.  read more Fonte: White House

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Security Council Press Statement on Attack against United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei

  The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Mark Lyall Grant ( United Kingdom): The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attack on the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism interim headquarters in Kadugli, Sudan, on […]

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Our 13 Favorite Photos of President Obama Being a Dad

Click here to see the photo gallery.   President Obama has a lot of important responsibilities in the White House, but he’s said that no job is more important than being a father to his two daughters. We’ve put together a quick slide show of some of our favorite moments of the President being a […]

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