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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House in a 17-minute speech laying out his strategy to approach Syria in wake of the nation's alleged use of chemical weapons.
Documents released Tuesday show that United States NSA officials accessed information to thousands of phone records that they didn't have legal authority to inspect, according to a report by the Miami Herald.
President Obama conducted interviews on six major television networks Monday in order to convince the American public to back his proposed U.S. military strike in Syria. Polls show that up to 60 percent of Americans are not in favor of US military action against the country.
President Obama will address the nation Tuesday night to make his case for military action against Syria's regime which is believed to have used chemical weapons against its civilians and rebel forces on August 21st.
PBS will air Charlie Rose's exclusive interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. In the interview, Assad denies his involvement in the deadly chemical weapons attack that left more than one thousand Syrians dead.
Recent polls show that President Obama faces an uphill battle in making the case for U.S. military action in Syria as more Americans oppose conducting military airstrikes against Syria in response to reports that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its civilians in Aug.
On Wednesday, a sharply divided Senate panel approved President Obama's resolution to launch a limited military strike against Syria.
On Tuesday, members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee agreed on a Senate resolution authorizing President Barack Obama to use limited military force against Syria.
In light of Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians, President Obama issued a draft resolution authorizing the use of military force in Syria to both houses of Congress on Saturday.
On Saturday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States "should take military action against Syrian targets" over its alleged use of chemical weapons in a speech delivered at the White House Rose Garden. However, he he will seek congressional authorization before launching any military action against the Syrian regime.
President Barack Obama announced two executive actions to reduce gun violence today, according to a press release from the White House this morning. Amongst these actions, Obama will notably restrict the re-entry of American firearms into the states after the government or other commercial entities have sold them overseas.
Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to deliver a statement Friday addressing the situation in Syria at 12:30 p.m. EST.
On Wednesday Cecilia Muñoz, a senior Latino White House official and domestic policy director for the Obama administration, stressed the correlation between the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and today's fight for comprehensive immigration.
In the shadow of the March on Washington, pro-immigration supporters across the nation this past weekend staged several marches, demonstrations and vigils in efforts to get Congress to support immigration reform.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin "questionable" and urged President Obama to speak more on issues of race in a Sunday interview with CBS' "Face the Nation."
