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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Supporters of President Barack Obama’s gun-control proposals are planning a methodical, state-by-state campaign to try to persuade key lawmakers that it’s in their political interest to back his sweeping effort to crack down on firearms and ammunition sales and expand criminal background checks.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? In an unprecedented move, President Barack Obama’s vaunted political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group ? funded in part by corporate money ? to mobilize support behind the president’s second-term agenda.

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BOSTON (AP) ? After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? In an unprecedented move, President Barack Obama’s vaunted political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group ? funded in part by corporate money ? to mobilize support behind the president’s second-term agenda.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Education Secretary Arne Duncan says it’s tough to prepare students for college when they’re more worried about being killed than making it to graduation.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Despite a relentless workload ahead, President Barack Obama is lighter on his feet in one sense as he opens his second term. Gone are the hundreds of promises of the past. He’s toting carry-ons instead of heavy cargo this time.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration has declared it cannot accept new terrorist sanctuaries in Mali or anywhere else and has promised to support French and African efforts to restore security. Yet after almost a year of disorder in the West African nation, Washington is still keeping the conflict at arm’s length.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is likely to name Denis McDonough, one of his closest national security advisers, as his next chief of staff, according to people familiar with the White House thinking.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is assembling an ambitious second-term agenda, pushing aggressively where he thinks he has political leverage but moving more cautiously on issues where he has less control.

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is asking Congress to expand background checks on gun buyers to include private sales and is using his executive authority to increase the information available in data banks in the background check system. The White House calls background checks the most efficient and effective way to keep guns away from dangerous individuals.

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