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Tuesday, February 12, 2013  Chicago police say two gang members charged in the death of a 15-year-old honor student mistook her and her friends for members of a rival gang.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013  Obama and his aides approached the inaugural speech with a belief that the president had replenished his political strength with his re-election and with his end-of-year deal with Republicans that raised upper-income tax rates on some of the wealthiest Americans.

Monday, January 21, 2013  President Obama previewed an ambitious second-term agenda, devoting several sentences to the threat of global climate change and saying that failure to confront it "would betray our children and future generations."

Monday, January 21, 2013  The president plans to use the moment as it traditionally has been in most of the 56 previous inaugurations — to talk about founding American values and their importance to the country's success today.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010  No victory lap for Obama: One year in, hope and optimism of Inauguration Day is hard to find