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Obama Unveils Presidential Plan To Cut Gun Violence
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama unveiled an array of measures on Tuesday tightening control and enforcement of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the absence of legal...
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Sleepy Syrian Refugee Struggles To Stay Awake During Obama’s State Of The...
A Syrian refugee who was invited to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was apparently a little sleepy during the nearly hour-long speech. Refaai Hamo, who now lives in Troy, Michigan...
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Detroit Pistons Mix POTUS And Eminem [VIDEO]
By: Evan Jankens @kingofthekc Andre Drummond is in the mix to earn a starting spot on this year’s All-Star roster. With this week’s vote coming out and Carmelo Anthony jumping Drummond for the final...
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Obama Declares Federal Emergency In Flint
LANSING (WWJ) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s request for federal aid in Flint was granted by President Barack Obama on Saturday, which will begin to help give residents access to safe, clean water. An...
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Flint Mayor ‘Happy, Thankful’ After Obama Approves Federal Aid
FLINT (WWJ) — News that President Barack Obama approved Gov. Rick Snyder’s request for federal aid to Flint was welcomed with a sense of relief by the city’s mayor, Karen Weaver, on Saturday. The...
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Obama Plans To Visit With Detroit Residents During Trip
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) – President Barack Obama is expected to visit a Detroit neighborhood and talk with residents during his trip to the city. During Wednesday’s trip, Obama plans to celebrate the...
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Flint Mayor Expected To Meet With Obama To Discuss Water Crisis
WASHINGTON (WWJ/AP) – A White House spokesman says he anticipates that President Barack Obama will meet with the Flint’s mayor during her visit to Washington D.C. on Tuesday. Mayor Karen Weaver plans...
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Obama To Take In Detroit Auto Show As Industry Flourishes
DETROIT (AP) – President Barack Obama will take a victory lap Wednesday in Detroit with a tour of the North American International Auto Show. The tour gives Obama the chance to highlight the industry’s...
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Downtown Detroit Streets Closed, People Mover Shut Down For Obama Visit
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) – Take note if you’re headed to downtown Detroit on Wednesday: It may be a bit of a travel mess. Detroit police say citizens can expect traffic congestion, long waits and delays,...
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Ted Nugent Calls For Hillary Clinton, Obama To Be Killed Over Benghazi
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) – Michigan-native musician Ted Nugent is calling for President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to be killed over their alleged wrongdoing during...
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POTUS Stops At Jolly Pumpkin For Lunch During Detroit Stop
By Christy Strawser DETROIT (CBS Detroit) President Barack Obama, looking relaxed and fresh in a royal blue shirt and tone-on-tone tie, stopped in at Jolly Pumpkin on his Detroit stop Wednesday. It was...
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Obama Takes Credit For Auto Industry Comeback During Visit To Detroit
DETROIT (CBS Detroit) – President Barack Obama says General Motors and Chrysler would be history if he hadn’t bailed out the then-struggling automakers seven years ago. After a quick tour of the North...
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Teachers March Outside Cobo As Largest ‘Sickout’ Aims For Obama’s Attention
DETROIT (WWJ) — Detroit Public Schools educators used the President Barack Obama’s visit to the Auto Show to bring attention to pay and conditions in their classrooms. Hundreds of people marched in...
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Snyder Appeals Obama’s Denial Of Disaster Aid For Flint
DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press LANSING (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder asked President Barack Obama on Wednesday to reconsider his denial of a federal disaster declaration to address the drinking...
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Michigan Woman Arrested With Gun Outside White House Gets Time Served
WASHINGTON (WWJ/AP) – A woman arrested for carrying a gun outside the White House in 2014 has been sentenced to time served. April Debois of Mount Morris, Michigan, pleaded guilty Thursday to a...
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Obama To Announce Supreme Court Nominee Wednesday
WASHINGTON (WWJ/AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he will reveal his Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, expecting to choose from a small circle of...
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Snyder To Meet With President Obama In Flint This Week
LANSING (WWJ/AP) — While in Germany last week, there were reports Gov. Rick Snyder said his schedule could not accommodate a meeting with Barack Obama — as the president was set to visit Flint on...
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President Obama Drinks Flint Water During Visit To Struggling City
FLINT (WWJ) – Visiting the struggling city of Flint on Wednesday, President Barack Obama is drinking the water. During meeting at a food bank just after noon, the President spoke for about 15 minutes...
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President Obama In Flint: ‘This Was A Man-Made Disaster’
FLINT (WWJ) – A crowd in Flint Wednesday cheered as President Barack Obama paused, cleared his throat, and asked: “Can I get some water?” Visiting the struggling city for the first time since the...
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33 Years Later, NC State Championship Team Meets President
BRADLEY KLAPPER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina State University’s victorious 1983 men’s basketball team finally got its day at the White House on Monday. Older but no less happy,...
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Detroit Students Invite President Obama To Visit Schools, See Problems...
DETROIT (WWJ) – It worked in Flint — a letter from a student to the President, inviting him to visit the city — and now two Detroit Public Schools students want Barack Obama to see first hand the...
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Obama Reduces Sentence Of Detroit-Area Man Jailed For Drug Crime
DETROIT (AP) — President Barack Obama has shaved years off a Detroit-area man’s sentence for a drug crime. Kareem Martin has been in prison since 2007. His 23-year sentence now will expire in 2018....
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Did Melania Trump Plagiarize Speech From Michelle Obama? [VIDEO]
CLEVELAND (CBS Detroit/AP) – Melania Trump’s well-received speech Monday to the Republican National Convention contains two passages that match nearly word-for-word the speech that first lady Michelle...
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Medal Of Honor Recipient Honored At Yankee Air Museum
YPSILANTI (AP) — A Vietnam War helicopter pilot from Michigan who recently received the Medal of Honor has been honored at the Yankee Air Museum. Roughly 300 people gathered Saturday to celebrate the...
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“Southside With You” Recounts Barack And Michelle Obama’s First Date
DETROIT (WWJ) – Do you remember your first date with your significant other? A new movie that comes out on Friday takes viewers along on Barack and Michelle Obama’s very first date. The movie,...
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Presidential Candidates, Supporters Make Final Push In Michigan Before...
STERLING HEIGHTS (WWJ) — In the final days leading into the 2016 Presidential election approach, both candidates and their supporters will make one final push in Michigan, which has now become a swing...
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Harbaugh Beams Behind Barack Obama During Ann Arbor Campaign Stop
ANN ARBOR (CBS Detroit) With the University of Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh beaming behind the podium in full Nike Michigan gear, President Barack Obama stumped for Hillary Clinton in Ann Arbor on the final...
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President Obama Calls On America To Preserve Democracy In Farewell Speech In...
CHICAGO (CBSNewYork/CBS Chicago/AP) — President Barack Obama addressed the state of American democracy, and what must be done to maintain it for the future, as he headed back to his longtime hometown...
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Dexter Fowler Gave POTUS A Custom Pair Of Air Jordans [PHOTO]
DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama celebrated the World Series champion Chicago Cubs on Monday and spoke about the power sports has to unite people....
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Kilpatrick Family Still ‘Hoping And Praying’ For Presidential Pardon
DETROIT (WWJ) – President Barack Obama plans on issuing more pardons and commutations this week — and the family of a former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is holding out hope. Bernard Kilpatrick,...
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Harbaugh Talks Up Another European Trip For Wolverines, Inviting Barack and...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh is talking up another trip to Europe for his Michigan Wolverines. Harbaugh told reporters Saturday that the team voted for London, Paris and Normandy, France, for...
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‘Oh My God, It Is Obama’: Mom, Baby Unexpectedly Meet Ex-President
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER , Associated Press An Alaska mother is cherishing cellphone photos she snapped of her wide-eyed 6-month-old baby in the arms of former President Barack Obama. Former...
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Obama, Bush, Clinton Give Presidents Cup Executive Buzz
By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The start of the Presidents Cup gave golf a new Big Three — former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton posing with players...
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5 Former Presidents Appear Together For Hurricane Relief
By Will Weissert AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The five living former presidents appeared together for the first time since 2013 on Saturday at a concert to raise money for victims of devastating hurricanes in...
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Former President Barack Obama Shows Up In Chicago For Jury Duty
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) – Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury...
View Article‘I Stand Behind The Decision’: Sara Gilbert Reacts to ‘Roseanne’ Cancellation
LOS ANGELES (CBSDFW.COM) — Actress Sara Gilbert, who co-hosts the popular CBS talk show “The Talk,” reacted Monday to the cancellation of the ABC sitcom “Roseanne” after the star – and namesake – of...
View ArticleObama To Campaign For Michigan Democrats On Friday
DETROIT (AP) — Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Democrats in Michigan. Obama will headline a rally in Detroit Friday for Sen. Debbie Stabenow, gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer,...
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‘If Joe Biden Wants Me To Play Some Kind Of Role, I’d Be Open To That’: Susan...
(CBS Local)– Susan Rice has been a National Security Advisor, United States Ambassador to the United Nations and a Rhodes Scholar. Thanks to her Simon & Schuster book “Tough Love: My Story of the...
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Barack Obama Will Join Joe Biden In Michigan Saturday
(CBS DETROIT) – Former President Barack Obama will join Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president Joe Biden in Michigan on Saturday, Oct. 31, just three days before the Nov. 3 election....
View ArticleJoe Biden, Barack Obama To Campaign In Flint, Detroit Saturday
(CBS DETROIT) – Joe Biden and Barack Obama will visit Flint and Detroit on Saturday, just three days before the Nov. 3 general election. According to Biden’s campaign Friday, both events will be...
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