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This past weekend, Barack Obama announced his vice-presidential choice, veteran Senator and fellow lawyer, Joseph Biden.
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In November 2015, President Barack Obama announced his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline project.
The Chinese announcement came barely hours after US President Barack Obama announced he would put a 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020 offer on the table at the forthcoming Copenhagen climate talks.
Today, President Barack Obama announced that he is withdrawing most of the Arctic Ocean and important areas in the Atlantic permanently from future oil and gas leasing under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London In October, Barack Obama announced that he had chosen the artist Kehinde Wiley to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
Barack Obama announced his candidacy, slogged through the longest Presidential campaign in American history, and was elected.
President - elect Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he would fulfill a campaign promise to buy his daughters a puppy.
President Barack Obama announced during a press conference last Wednesday that the FHA's 1.35 % annual premium will fall below the single digit threshold to 0.85 percent.
President Barack Obama announced in October 2011 that he would be making some major changes to the federal student loan program.
Excerpt «WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama announced Thursday that major book publishers will provide more than $ 250 million in free e-books to low - income students and that he is seeking commitments from local governments and schools nationwide to provide library cards to all students.»
In response, President Barack Obama announced last year an opportunity for states to become exempt from the requirements if they developed their own accountability systems, among other things.
The Madison School District, where President Barack Obama announced his signature education reform program at Wright Middle School in 2009, won't apply for the latest round of the grant competition geared toward districts trying to close achievement gaps.
The Madison School District, where President Barack Obama announced the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top education reform program at Wright Middle School in 2009, decided not to apply for a grant.
In September 2011 President Barack Obama announced that his administration would waive certain Elementary and Secondary Education Act requirements in exchange for reforms proposed by states in four principle areas:
Today's deadline comes as President Barack Obama announced his plans to seek $ 1.35 billion from Congress in his fiscal 2011 budget request to extend Race to the Top for another year and open it up to school districts.
Not only has President Barack Obama announced a $ 250 million public - private initiative to recruit and train more STEM teachers, but also the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund grants competition is giving bonus points for applications that stress STEM instruction.
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President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux is a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the United States government to young professionals...
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Nonie Lesaux is a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the United States government to young professionals beginning their independent research careers.
President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint TMT Board Chair Henry Yang to the Administration post: Member, President's Committee on the National Medal of Science.
John Donoghue, professor of neuroscience, and Arto Nurmikko, professor of engineering, were on hand at the White House Tuesday morning, April 2, as President Barack Obama announced a new «Grand Challenge» initiative called BRAIN — Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies.
Dresselhaus received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1990, and earlier this year President Barack Obama announced she had become the co-recipient of the Fermi Award.
Eighteen months after President Barack Obama announced the Administration's new plan for space exploration, NASA has selected a design for an essential component — the new Space Launch System — a powerful, heavy lift rocket that will carry astronauts and cargo beyond low - Earth orbit into deep space.
The report comes 5 months after President Barack Obama announced an end to the ban on public health research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that had been in place since 1996.
In a decision that could affect the immigration plan President Barack Obama announced on 20 November, a federal judge decided on 21 November that the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), an organization based in Bellevue, Washington, and affiliated with the national Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, can bring a lawsuit challenging the federal government's right to extend by executive action the authorization for foreign students to work in the United States under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.
Last April, the neuroscience community erupted in a flurry of speculation when President Barack Obama announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative — a proposed $ 110 million investment in neuroscience research.
LAST week, US president Barack Obama announced an executive action offering temporary legal status to some 5 million undocumented immigrants resident in the US.
And in April, President Barack Obama announced the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, a plan to fund new research exploring how neural regions link up.
On May 19 President Barack Obama announced a new federal gas mileage standard: by 2016 the nation's entire car and light truck fleet should average 35.5 miles per gallon.
President Barack Obama announced his support for same - sex marriage during an interview earlier today with ABC's Robin Roberts.
Fifty - four percent approve of the way Paterson is handling his job as governor, down ten points from last November, before Barack Obama announced that he was nominating Clinton to serve as secretary of state.
MANHATTAN — A day after President Barack Obama announced his administration would no longer oppose recognition of same - sex marriage, a new poll revealed that a majority of New Yorkers support gay marriage.
President Barack Obama announced new executive actions on Tuesday aimed at tightening control and enforcement of firearms in the U.S.
The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first - graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California.
President Barack Obama announced his decision Thursday to delay the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Washington (CNN)- The Obama administration has selected 43 more technology specialists as Presidential Innovation Fellows to help the government devise new ways to operate better and save money, President Barack Obama announced Monday.
Shortly after President Barack Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba and to rescind the island nation's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to lead a New York State Trade Mission there.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama announced a goal of of ending childhood hunger in America by the year 2015.
After uproar from conservatives and religious groups, President Barack Obama announced an accommodation to the rule.
President Barack Obama announced to Congress today that he plans to send 300 U.S. soldiers to Cameroon in order to gather intelligence.
Many of my students partied in the streets and on nearby Boston Common after President Barack Obama announced to the world that bin Laden was dead.
President Barack Obama announced today that he plans to nominate Suzan Johnson Cook for ambassador - at - large for International Religious Freedom.
This week, President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions on gun control, including expanding background checks.
A week after Broomfield's death, President Barack Obama announced the deployment of up to 450 more troops to train Iraqi forces to more effectively fight against ISIS, NPR reports.
The NAACP vote came about two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states.
Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individual to a key Administration post: Rabbi David Nathan Saperstein — Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Department of State.
In May 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announced new fuel economy standards intended to compel manufacturers to achieve an average of 35.5 miles per gallon across their car and light truck models by 2016.
President Barack Obama announces proposed gun reforms in December 2012.
US President Barack Obama announces that education Secretary Arne Duncan will step down in December and John King, former State Superintendent in New York, will take his place...
US President Barack Obama announces that education Secretary Arne Duncan will step down in December and John King, former State Superintendent in New York, will take his place during a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House October 2, 2015 in Washington, DC, USA.