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Obama Ends Hawaiian Vacation, Looking Towards Final Year of Presidency
January 03, 2016 7:20 AM
U.S. President Barack Obama is heading back to Washington to begin the final year of his White House tenure.
Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters departed the U.S. Pacific state of Hawaii late Saturday night after their annual two-week Christmas vacation in the president's birthplace.
He plans to meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch Monday to discuss an impending executive order aimed at expanding background checks on gun sales, which he is taking in response to a series of deadly mass shootings across the United States in recent years, including last month's massacre in San Bernardino, California.
Foreign affairs
The president is expected to announce the new order days before he delivers his final State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 12.
The president is expected to announce the new order days before he delivers his final State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 12.
Like his predecessors, Obama is expected to devote a great deal of the final year of his presidency to foreign affairs. The top items on his agenda include securing congressional passage of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, and a possible trip to Cuba.
Obama achieved a diplomatic breakthrough last year by restoring formal relations with the communist-led Caribbean island, ending more than five decades of Cold War-era hostilities
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