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BREAKING: Watch President Obama announce new steps to help more Americans access #BetterBroadband → youtu.be/Nbol8oMNggs

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The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 13, 2015

BREAKING: President Obama has a plan to make your Internet go much faster. #betterbroadband u.pw/1AcPSD5 http://t.co/KDRPsJ8G7Z

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This is a #CharlieHebdo pic making fun of #BringBackOurGirls kidnapped by #BokoHaram and depicted as welfare queens. http://t.co/Y3hXyfL3XP

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Charles F Coleman Jr (@CFColemanJr) January 13, 2015

Boko Haram massacres hundreds each week. @AsafRonel asks: Where is the West’s outrage? htz.li/1nO http://t.co/d9lxxHyY3o

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Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) January 13, 2015

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Free speech cannot be used as a license to ridicule other cultures or as a shield for xenophobia. I am NOT Charlie. #CharlieHebdo

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Charles F Coleman Jr (@CFColemanJr) January 13, 2015

I am not Charlie. I can never be Charlie. I don't have the complexion for protection to be Charlie. What I am, is Baga. #IAmNigeria

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Awesomely Luvvie (@Luvvie) January 13, 2015

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#CharlieHebdo depicting kidnapped Nigerian girls as welfare queens. I'm definitely not Charlie. (H/T @CFColemanJr) http://t.co/sY3Wbv7x3P

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Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) January 13, 2015

they're not just addressing the terrorists. They're addressing a billion people who are members of a demonized religion. @dylanllyr

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Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) January 13, 2015

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The U.S. Economy Keeps Progressing. Thanks, President Obama

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Rich Miller: U.S. Retakes The Helm Of The Global Economy

The U.S. is back in the driver’s seat of the global economy after 15 years of watching China and emerging markets take the lead. The world’s biggest economy will expand by 3.2 percent or more this year, its best performance since at least 2005, as an improving job market leads to stepped-up consumer spending, according to economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas SA. That outcome would be about what each foresees for the world economy as a whole and would be the first time since 1999 that America hasn’t lagged behind global growth, based on data from the International Monetary Fund. About 3 million more Americans found work in 2014, the most in 15 years and a sign companies are optimistic U.S. demand will persist even as overseas markets struggle.

The U.S. is breaking away from the rest of the world partly because it has had more success working off the debt-driven excesses that helped precipitate the worst recession since the Great Depression. “The progress has been far greater in the U.S.,” Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School in New York and a former chief White House economist, told the American Economic Association annual conference in Boston on Jan. 3. The U.S. has pulled ahead of other industrial nations partly because its policy-making has been better, according to Paul Mortimer-Lee, chief economist for North America at BNP Paribas in New York. U.S. budget policy also has been more effective than the euro region’s austerity strategy, which undercut the continent’s economy, Mortimer-Lee added.

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When I went to bed, I curled up tight, scrunched my eyes tight, crossed my fingers, and hoped hoped hoped for a jobs report like this.

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Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) January 09, 2015

"Thanks to the hard work of the American people, the United States of America is coming back." —President Obama http://t.co/d6y4hZqPTA

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The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 09, 2015

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.@LaborSec says he's watching ratio of job seekers to job openings. It's getting better fast. 53eig.ht/1wV0B3T http://t.co/YVcfjbw8h3

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Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 13, 2015

Hints of better quality jobs: More construction, more manufacturing, more full-time. 53eig.ht/1wCjVmp http://t.co/02YiIUuHuf

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Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 09, 2015

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Prime-age employment rate continues its gradual improvement. http://t.co/PMnrviKla0

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Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) January 09, 2015

"2014 was the strongest year for job growth since the 1990s." —President Obama: go.wh.gov/AtwaKZ http://t.co/d6y4hZqPTA

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The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 10, 2015

Rise and Shine

On This Day: Canvassing in Las Vegas, January 13, 2008

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Today (all times Eastern)

11:0: The President meets with members of the bipartisan congressional leadership; Cabinet Room

11:45: White House Press Briefing

3:10: The President delivers remarks at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center; Arlington, Virginia

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The Week Ahead

Wednesday: The President will visit Iowa to give a speech proposing new steps to increase access to affordable, high-speed broadband across the country.

Thursday: The President will have a working dinner with PM David Cameron at the White House. He will also travel to Baltimore, Maryland, to attend a Senate Democratic Issues Conference.

Friday: The President will meet with PM David Cameron again at the White House.

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On This Day

Sen. Barack Obama surprises Jean Harper after her husband Eugene Harper saw Obama canvassing in their neighborhood and brought him to their home, January 13, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada

Geoconda Arguello-Kline, president of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, and Sen. Barack Obama canvass a neighborhood, January 13, 2008, in Las Vegas

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Rob Robinson from the Correspondence Office walks on the Colonnade carrying a gift portrtait of Abraham Lincoln to the West Wing of the White House, Jan. 13, 2010. (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

President Obama talks with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil to discuss response to the earthquake crisis in Haiti, as NSC Chief of Staff Denis McDonough listens, in the Oval Office, Jan. 13, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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First Lady Michelle Obama and iCarly’s Jennette McCurdy pose for a photo backstage at a special military family screening of Nickelodeon’s iCarly: iMeet The First Lady at Hayfield Secondary School on January 13, 2012 in Alexandria, Virginia.

First Lady Michelle Obama watches a performance backstage with iCarly cast members Jennette McCurdy, left, and Miranda Cosgrove and members of her staff prior to an iCarly screening at Hayfield Secondary School in Alexandria, Va., Jan. 13, 2012 (Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

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(A Belated) MoooOOOooorning!

Early Bird Chat

On This Day: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Tuskeegee Airmen in the East Garden Room of the White House prior to a screening of the film “Red Tails” in the Family Theater, Jan. 13, 2012 (Photo by Pete Souza)

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MoooOOOooorning!