CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of three people serving sentences in North Carolina and a fourth in South Carolina on drug-related charges. A statement from the White House says Reginald Wendell Boyd Jr. of ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, challenging Republicans to drop their adamant refusal to even consider his choice in an election year. Obama called Garland, a long-time jurist ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday the Supreme Court needs to operate with its full contingent of nine justices as he signaled he will soon announce his nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Republicans stood firm ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is due to meet face-to-face Tuesday with the Senate Republican leaders vowing to block his Supreme Court nominee — no matter who it is — with the hope of keeping the seat open for ...

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Watching the fight unfold between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over who should choose the next Supreme Court justice, Michael A. Bowden got angry at what he saw at the latest affront to the first black ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The administration of President Barack Obama is vowing to press ahead with efforts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions after a divided Supreme Court put his signature plan to address climate change on hold until after legal challenges ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Facing fresh campaign anxieties, Hillary Clinton is attaching herself to President Barack Obama, hoping to overcome liberal enthusiasm for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a full-throated embrace of her one-time rival and boss. Central to that ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A visibly emotional President Barack Obama, at one point wiping tears from his cheek, unveiled his plan Tuesday to tighten control and enforcement of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the absence of legal ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s do-it-himself plan for keeping guns away from those who shouldn’t have them falls far short of what he’d hoped to accomplish through legislation after a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the country ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Immigrants living in North Carolina and their advocates want Gov. Pat McCrory to withdraw from a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s executive actions designed to protect millions of people in the country illegally from deportation. Several groups organized ...

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