President Barack Obama is greeted by Mayor Steve Adler on the tarmac upon his arrival on Air Force One at Austin Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas
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President Barack Obama chats with Evan Smith, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Texas Tribune at the opening Keynote during the 2016 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at The Long Center in Austin, Texas
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President Barack Obama adjust his suit jacket as he walks across the tarmac before boarding Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, Calif
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Selfie with the Chief. @BarackObama @POTUS https://t.co/ggivtyPi6j
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President Barack Obama laughs with Ellen DeGeneres during a commercial break while taping a segment of the Ellen DeGeneres Show
President Barack Obama waves from the doorway of Air Force One upon arriving at Subang Airbase in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
President Barack Obama speaks as he meets with Malaysias Prime Minister Najib Razak in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. President Obama is in Malaysia where he will join leaders from Southeast Asia to discuss trade and economic issues, and terrorism and disputes over the South China Sea
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President Barack Obama smiles as he speaks at the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) during a town hall meeting at Taylor’s University
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President Barack Obama waves while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club, in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard
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President Barack Obama greets well wishers after landing on Marine One at the Cape Cod Coast Guard Station in Bourne, Mass., en route to Washington
First Lady Michelle Obama greets supporters on the tarmac of the Cape Cod Coast Guard Station
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President Barack Obama holding hands with his daughter Malia Obama, walks off of Air Force One as daughter Sasha Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama, follow at Andrews Air Force Base
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President Barack Obama with daughter Malia and First Lady Michelle Obama with daughter Sasha, walk form Marine One across the South Lawn of the White House
President Barack Obama is briefed during a meeting with senior advisors in the Oval Office, Aug. 18, 2011. Photo by Pete Souza
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The presidency is not just another TV show. It requires intelligence, courage, compassion, depth of character. http://t.co/KRq1vCBFgO
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The Obama administration unveiled a new strategy to combat heroin abuse on Monday, pledging $2.5 million in additional funds to target five “high intensity drug trafficking areas.” The plan, which aims to pair law enforcement officials with health experts, is notable for its emphasis onconnecting heroin users with treatment rather than focusing on putting them behind bars. In the 15 states participating in the pilot program, a
public health official will coordinate “heroin response teams” and help track the number of overdoses in their region. More first responders will be trained about how to administer naloxone, a drug that can reverse overdoses from heroin and prescription painkillers. The new strategy “demonstrates a strong commitment to address the heroin and prescription opioid epidemic as both a public health and a public safety issue,” according to Michael Botticelli, the Obama administration’s director of national drug control policy.
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Read about President Obama's latest move to reduce methane gas pollution from landfills: ofa.bo/f9E6 #ActOnClimate
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Friday that aim to reduce landfill emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases by nearly a third, in an attempt to more tightly regulate a sector that accounts for nearly a fifth of total U.S. methane emissions. The proposals seek to update methane regulations on new and existing landfills. If enacted, the EPA says the regulations would reduce methane emissions from municipal solid waste landfills by487,000 tons a year beginning in 2025. Since methane is about 25 times as potent a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide, that reduction would be equal to cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 12.2 million metric tons — the amount emitted by more than 1.1 million homes.
Under the proposed rules, landfills would have to start capturing two-thirds of their methane and other hazardous emissions by 2023. That’s 13 percent more than they’re currently required to capture. The proposed regulations would apply to the more than 2,000 active municipal solid waste landfillsin the United States, which together make up the nation’s third-largest source of methane emissions. These emissions are produced when organic matter, such as food waste, decomposes in a landfill. Once the EPA’s proposed rules are filed in the federal register, they’ll be subject to a 60-day public commenting period.
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Sierra Leone records NO new #Ebola infections - for first time since outbreak bbc.in/1TN4vHj http://t.co/dowLiwlEX8
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BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) August 17, 2025****
For the first time since the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, the country has recorded zero new infections. There were no new Ebola cases reported last week according to the WHO. At the height of the outbreak Sierra Leone was reporting more than 500 new cases a week. Last week, for the first time since May last year, there were zero new cases.
But authorities are warning against complacency. OB Sisay, Director of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC), said: “This does not mean Sierra Leone is suddenly Ebola free. “As long as we have one Ebola case we still have an epidemic. People should continue to take the public health measures… around hand-washing, temperature checks, enhanced screening.”
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The White House wants to put heroin addicts in treatment rather than in prison thkpr.gs/3692244 http://t.co/uFqpVuKpaq
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 17, 2025Government introduces plan to cut emissions from landfills by a third thkpr.gs/3692230 http://t.co/D7BvySEjP2
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Tombstone of "Roots" author Alex Haley's grandmother vandalized with "white lives matter" bit.ly/1NoD1YI http://t.co/kV3iQHyYGp
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) August 17, 2025Important: UN figures count nearly 75k residents having already returned to #Tikrit since its liberation from #ISIL. reliefweb.int/report/iraq/re…
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My thoughts on how Bibi made cannon of American Jews in his war with Obama talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bibis-c…
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Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 17, 2025Iran deal quietly picks up some GOP backers on.msnbc.com/1UOLZk8 via @maddow
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My take: Iran and American Jews nyti.ms/1PhafYs
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Roger Cohen (@NYTimesCohen) August 17, 2025The White House announced a new program that focuses on the treatment, rather than the punishment, of heroin addicts nyti.ms/1UPaZYp
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President Barack Obama disembarks Air Force One upon arrival at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Aug. 18, 2012. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama talks with, from left, Tony Blinken, Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, and Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer in the Outer Oval Office before making a statement in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Aug. 18, 2014. Photo by Chuck Kennedy
President Barack Obama meets the Weithman family: Joe, Rhonda, and their children, Rachel, 9, and Josh, 11, in their home in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 18, 2010. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama surprises Military Aide Major Barrett Bernard with a birthday cake aboard Air Force One during the flight from Seattle, Wash., to Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 17, 2010. Photo by Pete Souza
President Barack Obama signs H.R. 1138 Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act. in the Oval Office
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President Barack Obama, his daughter Sasha, and First Lady Michelle Obama depart for their annual summer vacation to Martha’s Vineyard from the South Lawn of the White House
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk from Marine One upon their arrival in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
President Barack Obama talks with Rep. Bill Keating, D-Mass.
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