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Psaki misspoke: Obama not yet signed new anti-Russian bill
US President Barack Obama has not yet signed a bill clearing the way for more economic sanctions against Russia. The US State Department confirmed Jen Psaki misspoke during the press briefing....

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Obama: America #39;s Decade Of Decline Reversed -Now Time To Lift All Boats
In this week #39;s address, President Obama discusses the economic gains we made in 2014, which was the strongest year for job growth since the 1990s. In the coming weeks, President Obama says...

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WASHINGTON Continuing the break with State of the Union tradition, President Barack Obama will spend most of next week previewing more of the proposals he will outline in the upcoming address, including on identity theft, electronic privacy and other cyberspace issues, the White House announced Saturday.

Traditionally, the White House closely guards plans to be offered in the State of the Union until just before the president delivers the nationally televised address.

But in a bid to generate excitement as he begins the next-to-last year of his presidency, Obama began previewing new initiatives during the week, including programs to boost homeownership by reducing mortgage insurance premiums and increase access to higher education by paying for the first two years of community college for Americans who meet certain criteria.

"I didn't want to wait for the State of the Union to talk about all the things that make this country great and how we can make it better, so I thought I'd get started this week," Obama said Wednesday in Michigan, where he discussed a rebounding U.S. auto industry. "I figured, why wait? It's like opening your Christmas presents a little early."

All of the proposals include steps Obama can put in place on his own, a practice he used frequently last year that irritated Republicans. Other proposals will require collaboration with Congress, which Republicans now control. They reacted coolly to Obama's announcements this week.

Last week, Obama highlighted proposals to help the economy and the middle class. The emphasis this week will be on cyberspace issues.

Obama will use an event at the Federal Trade Commission to lay out the next steps in his plan to tackle identity theft and improve consumer and student privacy. It follows up on a plan Obama announced last October to tighten security for the debit cards that transmit federal benefits, like Social Security payments, to millions of Americans.

After holding his first meeting of the new year with the top leaders in Congress on Tuesday, Obama will discuss cybersecurity, including ways to get the private sector and federal government to voluntarily share more cybersecurity information. He'll do so at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, which is housed in the Department of Homeland Security and shares information among the public and private sectors.

On Wednesday, Obama will be in Iowa to talk about ways to make affordable, high-speed Internet more available nationwide. The White House would not say where in Iowa the event will take place.

Vice President Joe Biden is also pitching in, traveling to Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday to announce new funding to help train people to join the cybersecurity workforce, the White House said.

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In the West Harlem neighborhood where Columbia University would build the Obama presidential library, residents are accustomed to change. But they have not always welcomed it.

The proposed library would be a cornerstone of Columbia's massive expansion into the mostly poor and working-class neighborhood of Manhattanville, one subway stop north of the university's sprawling main campus in Morningside Heights. With views of the Hudson River to the west and a cluster of public housing high-rises to the east, the Obama library and museum would serve as a bridge between the old and the new.

As one of the four semifinalists for hosting the Obama library and museum, Columbia has emerged as a formidable challenger to Chicago's two bids one by the University of Illinois at Chicago on the Near West Side and another by the University of Chicago on the South Side.

In some ways, the West Harlem site mirrors the Chicago neighborhoods offered for the library. Its residents suffer from high unemployment, poverty, inadequate public schools and gang-related violence, all in the shadows of an Ivy League university that continues to encroach on the community's borders.

But unlike Chicago, where sites in neglected neighborhoods in North Lawndale, Washington Park and Woodlawn are competing to win the library for its economic benefits as much as its historical significance, West Harlem already is in the cusp of an economic revival.

The community's physical transformation began in the past decade, fueled in part by more than $7 billion in construction by Columbia that increases its footprint in the area while promising an infusion of new shops, restaurants and open space for the community.

About a mile from booming central Harlem, home of the landmark Apollo Theater and former President Bill Clinton's office, West Harlem is a community in transition. Having been sidestepped by the African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and '30s known as the Harlem Renaissance, Manhattanville developed instead as an industrial corridor. It was once home to a dairy, a brewery and automobile plants that included a Studebaker factory that the university preserved and uses as an office building.

Over the past decade, West Harlem, like the rest of Harlem, has undergone a rapid demographic shift to a more diverse population that is now 38 percent Hispanic, 27 percent white and 25 percent black. Storefront markets and family-owned businesses are nestled among low-income apartments and ornate tri-level brownstones that sell for an average of $1 million.

Over the next 25 years, Columbia plans to develop a four-block area from 129th to 133rd streets between Broadway and 12th Avenue. Its plans also include a parcel of land on the north side of 125th street as well as three properties on the east side of Broadway from 131st to 134th Street.

Columbia officials have not disclosed exactly where the library would go on those properties and declined to speak to the Tribune on the record about their proposal.

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