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Daily Video June 03 2016

President Obama talks guns at PBS town hall
President Obama answered a question about gun policy following PBS NewsHour’s town hall on June 1 in Elkhart, Indiana.
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Daily Video June 02 2016

PBS NewsHour hosts town hall with President Obama
The PBS NewsHour's Gwen Ifill hosted a special event, 'Questions for President Obama,' on June 1 in Elkart, Indiana. Elkart was the first city Obama visited after he was elected president in 2008.
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Lesson Plan May 27 2016

Historic Presidential Visit to Hiroshima
President Obama became the first sitting United States president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, seven decades after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Have your students learn more about this historic visit by watching videos and researching images of the Hiroshima bombing then and now.
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Daily Video March 22 2016

President Obama makes historic trip to Cuba
President Barack Obama made a historic visit to Cuba this week, meeting with President Raul Castro and becoming the first United States leader to visit Havana in 88 years.
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Daily Video March 17 2016

Obama picks Supreme Court nominee, Republicans promise to block
Despite Republicans promising to block any nominee, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of chief judge of the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court Wednesday.
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Student Voices November 25 2015

White House highlights West Virginia SRL report on drug abuse
West Virginia is fighting a war against drug abuse. We all know users, recovering addicts and their families and we all see the everyday struggles and hardships of addiction and losing family and loved ones.
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Daily Video October 26 2015

President Obama says schools should test less
The president and the U.S. Department of Education have called on states to cut back on the number of standardized tests students take.
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Daily Video September 01 2015

President visits Alaskan Arctic, renames Mt. McKinley
President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Alaskan Arctic during a three-day trip this week to discuss climate change and its threat to the region.
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Daily Video August 28 2015

President visits New Orleans ten years after Katrina
Speaking in one of the neighborhoods worst hit by Hurricane Katrina, President Obama praised the city’s recovery and acknowledged the challenges still facing its residents.
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Daily Video March 09 2015

How have voting rights changed in the past 50 years?

The 50th anniversary of the marches for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, brought a new focus to the relationship between race and voting today.
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