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• President Obama will make his second trip to central Florida in the last ten days to stump for Hillary Clinton. This time, he will headline a Get Out the Vote event at Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee. It is an area known for its bustling Puerto Rican community and its high concentration of voters who choose not to affiliate with Republicans or Democrats.
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• President Obama made a trip to central Florida Friday, a key region of the battleground state, where early voting is in full swing. There, he tried to win over undecided young voters.
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• President Obama is betting that business owners will be engines of change in communist Cuba. Miami-based reporter Tim Padgett is in Havana for Obama’s historic visit to Cuba. He talked to two young Cuban go-getters who meet with the president today and who are soon headed for Miami.
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• “I believe in diplomacy, I believe in dialogue, I believe in engagement,” the president says of Iran and other regimes perceived as U.S. enemies. But he says restoring relations is a gradual process.
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• President Obama’s new strategy on Cuba is making political and economic waves. Hank Fishkind analyzes the economic implications of warmer relations with Cuba here in Florida.
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• “There is such a thing as being too late,” President Obama says in his address to the U.N. Climate Summit. The White House is touting tools to boost “global resilience” in the face of climate change.
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• More than 120 leaders are expected to attend the one-day summit sponsored by the United Nations. They’ve been instructed to arrive Tuesday with “bold ideas” to slow the rise in global temperatures.
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• In June, President Obama said he would act on his own to reshape U.S. immigration policies at the summer’s end. Since then, he’s come under pressure from fellow Democrats.
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• President Obama heads to Europe this week to take part in the NATO summit. The alliance is weighing how to respond to Russia’s incursions into Ukraine.
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• President Obama announced that he has authorized a humanitarian mission to aid religious minorities stranded on Mount Sinjar in Iraq. Airstrikes will be a component of that mission.
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