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Obama, on the Fallon show, slow jams the news

Add this to the list of ways the President of the United States woos young voters in an election-year: He slow jams the news.

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Va. environmentalists cheer new US pollution limits

Environmental groups in Virginia are hailing new Obama administration limits on carbon pollution from new power plants.

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New black history museum rising on National Mall

Frederick Douglass was black and that was enough for the Smithsonian Institution to bar the famed abolitionist from speaking at a lecture series intended to convince President Abraham Lincoln that he should end slavery as war divided the nation in February 1862.

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