Sandy Hook mom delivers presidential radio address
(CNN) - For the first time in his White House tenure, President Barack Obama handed the weekly address to someone outside his administration.
He stepped aside so a mother who lost her son in the Newtown school massacre could press Congress to act on new measure tightening access to guns.
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Biden to lead delegation for new pope's installation
(CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden, the first Roman Catholic to serve as vice president, will lead the U.S. delegation to next week's formal installation of Pope Francis, he said in a statement Wednesday.
"I am happy to have the chance to personally relay my well wishes, and those of the American people, when I travel to Rome for his Inaugural Mass," he wrote. "The Catholic Church plays an essential role in my life and the lives of more than a billion people in America and around the world, not just in matters of our faith, but in pursuit of peace and human dignity for all faiths."
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Obama names McDonough as chief of staff
Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama named one of his closest and most trusted advisers as his chief of staff Friday, the fifth man to hold the job since Obama first took office in 2009.
Denis McDonough, who served as Obama's deputy national security adviser since 2010, was announced to the post at a White House event Friday. Obama told a packed East Room that McDonough is a "great friend to me and to everyone who works here in the White House."
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