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• Text of Obama, Castro in meeting at Summit of the Americas

  11-04-2015 23:09
  
  Text of remarks by President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro of Cuba at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, as transcribed by the White House:
  
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• Hillary Clinton Expected to Announce Presidential Run This Weekend

  11-04-2015 15:10
  
  NBC’s Kristen Welker reports from Hillary Clinton’s expected campaign headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, on a possible announcement from Clinton at a run for the White House in 2016. Clinton is likely to announce her campaign via social media.
  
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• Senators focusing on bill to limit nuclear deal with Iran

  11-04-2015 09:19
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bill calling for Congress to have a say on an emerging nuclear agreement with Iran has turned into a tug of war on Capitol Hill, with Republicans trying to raise the bar so high that a final deal might be impossible and Democrats aiming to give the White House more room to negotiate with Tehran.
  
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• New U.S. offshore oil drilling rule planned: New York Times

  11-04-2015 03:56
  
  The United States is planning to impose a major new regulation on offshore oil and gas drilling to try to prevent the kind of explosions that caused the catastrophic BP Plc (BP.L) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing Obama administration officials. The Interior Department could make the announcement as early as Monday, the paper said. The rule is expected to tighten safety requirements on blowout preventers, devices that are the last line of protecti
  
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• Obama, Castro shake hands at summit amid U.S.-Cuba detente

  11-04-2015 03:41
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at a summit in Panama, a symbolically charged gesture as the pair seek to restore ties between two Cold War foes. "At the Summit of the Americas this evening, President Obama and President Castro greeted each other and shook hands," said Bernadette Meehan, National Security Council Spokesperson. A White House official said however the pair did not have a substantive conversation.
  
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• Chelsea Clinton on a Female President: 'Absolutely It’s Important'

  11-04-2015 03:13
  
  From a young age, Chelsea Clinton’s whole world has been shaped by the members of her family. As the daughter of two of the most powerful political figures on the planet, she has grown up with the combined pressures of a life lived both in the White House and in the spotlight. But now, the former first daughter has a new focus, her six-month-old daughter Charlotte. "My whole life is reoriented around my daughter in the most blessed sense," Clinton told Elle editor-at-large Rachael Co
  
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• Obama, Castro will meet at summit amid U.S.-Cuba detente

  11-04-2015 01:27
  
  By Matt Spetalnick and Dave Graham PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro have talked by telephone about restoring diplomatic ties and are due to meet at a summit this weekend as they seek to set aside decades of hostility between two Cold War enemies. The historic rapprochement is set to dominate the Summit of the Americas meeting in Panama, less than four months after a landmark announcement by Obama and Castro that they would improve relations and
  
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• US downplays Iran warning on nuclear deal

  11-04-2015 00:30
  
  The White House on Friday played down warnings by Iran's leaders that they may not sign a final deal of a framework accord on their nuclear program with international negotiators. "The test of whether or not that framework can be memorialized in a deal is not going to be a comment made... by a particular Iranian leader," senior White House advisor Ben Rhodes said. "The test is going to be whether at the end of June we have a document that is agreed to" and meets "ou
  
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• Obama income falls to $477,000 in 2014 as book sales slow

  11-04-2015 00:07
  
  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle earned $477,383 in 2014, a decline over the past few years as sales of the president's biographies declined, according to their tax return released by the White House on Friday. Obama is paid $400,000 for his position as the U.S. president. The couple's return showed they gave $70,712 to 33 charities with the largest gift of $22,012 going to Fisher House Foundation, which houses military families while
  
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