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US President Barack Obama arrives to speak about the deadly tornadoes that hit Oklahoma earlier this week, from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, May 21, 2013. Obama earlier met with members of his homeland security and disaster response teams following a massive tornado that tore through neighborhoods outside Oklahoma City, destroying two schools and killing up to 24 people, including on May 20, 2013. Arriving with Obama are US Vice President Joe Biden (2nd L), Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (2nd R) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Deputy Administrator Richard Serino (R).
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Newsday's coverage
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Wisconsin boy gets handwritten response from Biden
Monday when Biden's handwritten response arrived in the mail.In the note, the vice president says he agrees that chocolate bullets would make the country safer and happier. The note concludes: "People love chocolate. You are a good boy, Joe Biden." Read more »
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State visits amplify Obama focus on Latin America
its engagement with Latin America, hosting leaders from a pair of presidents at the White House and sending Vice President Joe Biden to visit two others.Peru's President Ollanta Humala and Chile's President Sebastian Pinera will travel to Washington in June Read more »
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Biden says a shotgun will scare off intruders
President Joe Biden said Tuesday that Americans don't need semi-automatic weapons to protect their homes because a couple of blasts from a shotgun will scare off intruders."Buy a shotgun, buy a shotgun," the vice president encouraged those worried about defending Read more »
Around the web
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Obama meets with semi-illegal immigrants to push amnesty bill
Barack Obama invited two illegal immigrants to meet him and Vice President Joe Biden in the White House today to help promote the Senate’s immigration bill. The group was invited last Friday, Donna De La Cruz, press secretary at the Center for Community Change, 3:05 PM from The Daily Caller Read more »
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Non-Random Notes (Throughout the day)
help for Moore, Oklahoma in the wake of one of the most destructive storms in the nation’s history. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden received the intelligence and economic briefings in the Oval Office. They then received a briefing on the ongoing response 12:46 PM from New West Notes Read more »
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Obama, Biden hear personal immigration stories
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden heard Tuesday from seven young people whose lives have been affected by what they called the country's "broken" immigration system. As the Senate Judiciary Committee nears completion of its markup of the Gang of Eight's comprehensive 12:44 PM from The Politico Read more »
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President Obama’s Remarks on the Tornadoes in Oklahoma (Transcript)
Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)'s Deputy Administrator Richard Serino in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, May 21, 2013. Remarks provided 11:55 AM from Time Magazine Read more »
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Obama pledges urgent aid to Oklahoma town
Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and FEMA Deputy Administrator Richard Serino. talks about the Oklahoma tornado and severe weather, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. WASHINGTON (AP) — President 11:36 AM from San Diego Local News 1 Read more »
