PRES OBAMA DELIVERING THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS TODAY AT MOREHOUSE COLLEGE **

ABOUT 500 STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMAS AT THE ALL-MALE, **

IT'S OBAMA'S SECOND GRADUATION SPEECH THIS YEAR **

HIS THIRD AND FINAL ADDRESS COMES ON FRI AT THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY IN MD **

N KOREA FIRES A PROJECTILE INTO WATERS OFF ITS EASTERN COAST, ACCORDING TO **

IT'S UNCLEAR WHETHER THE LAUNCH WAS A MISSILE OR ARTILLERY ROUND **

THIS COMES A DAY AFTER PYONGYANG TEST FIRED THREE SHORT-RANGE MISSILES **

N KOREA IS BANNED FROM TESTING BALLISTIC MISSILES UNDER UN SECURITY COUNCIL **

UN SECY-GEN BAN KI-MOON HOPING AN INTL CONFERENCE TO END SYRIA'S DEADLY **

THE U.S. AND RUSSIA HAVE AGREED TO TRY TO BRING THE SYRIAN REGIME AND **

THIS COMES AMID SYRIA'S TWO-YEAR CIVIL WAR THAT'S LEFT AN ESTIMATED 80,000 **

PRES OBAMA PLANS TO ADDRESS HIS ADMIN'S COUNTERTERRORISM POLICIES DURING A **

WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL SAYS THE SPEECH WILL ADDRESS THE ADMIN'S DRONE PROGRAM **

OBAMA WILL DELIVER THE SPEECH ON THURS AT THE NATL DEFENSE UNIV **

IN RESPONSE, S KOREA DEPLOYED DOZENS OF GUIDED MISSILES ON ISLANDS NEAR A **

CREWS REMOVING TRAINS DAMAGED DURING FRIDAY'S METRO-NORTH COLLISION IN CT **

THE RUSH-HOUR CRASH ON FRI LEFT 72 PEOPLE INJURED IN FAIRFIELD AFTER AN **

INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO A BROKEN SECTION OF A RAIL IN CONNECTION **

U.S. EMBASSY EMPLOYEE IN RUSSIA ACCUSED OF SPYING HAS LEFT MOSCOW, **

EARLIER THIS WEEK, RUSSIAN SECURITY CLAIMED RYAN FOGLE, A THIRD SECRETARY **

HE WAS ORDERED TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY IN RESPONSE **


 

White House Press Pool report

Subject: Print Pool 4

 

 

POTUS finishes his speech, about 10m.

 

Here are some quotes.

 

About 20m Q&A to come.

 

Some quotes:

 

“There has been a lot of talk about Medicare and Social Security that hasn’t been on the level.”

 

Talks about the benefits of Obama care. Says repeal would mean billions of new profits for insurance companies.–

 

“No American should ever spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies.”

 

“We have to keep the promise on Social Security by reforming it and not handing it over the Wall St.”

 

Says that Paul Ryan had written a bill previously to do just that.

 

Compares and contrasts his tax plan and Mr Romney’s.

 

Richard McGregor

Financial Times, Washington