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  President Barack Obama challenged Americans to live up to the principles behind the nation’s founding during his second inaugural address, delivered Monday after taking a ceremonial oath of office. “What makes us exceptional, what makes us America, is our allegiance to an ideal in a declaration made more than two centuries ago,” the president […]

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Crowds filled the National Mall on a crisp Monday for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, who will recite the oath of office and address the nation a day after formally beginning his second term. The nation’s first African-American president will become only the 17th U.S. leader to deliver a second inaugural address before […]

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Barack Obama officially began his second term as President on Sunday, taking the oath of office during a brief, late morning ceremony in the Blue Room of the White House. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts administered the oath to the President, who was accompanied by First Lady Michelle and daughters Malia, 13, and Sasha, […]