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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 201 file photo, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray listens to a speaker during a a hearing in Denver. Americans lodged nearly 300,000 complaints last year about their dealings with banks, credit card issuers and other financial services companies, most compiled and made readily available for anyone to see as part of a database administered by the federal government. But that window may soon be closing. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Financial Complaints May Be Private

by Kevin Freking Associated PressApril 24, 2017

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 file photo, parents leave a staging area after being reunited with their children following a shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where Adam Lanza fatally shot 27 people, including 20 children. The Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, to block an Obama-era regulation that would prevent an estimated 75,000 people with mental disorders from being able to purchase a firearm. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Congress Blocks Rule Barring Mentally Impaired From Guns

by Kevin Freking Associated PressFebruary 15, 2017

FILE - In this April 20, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama gestures during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The year Obama came into office, the White House joined Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, iTunes and MySpace. In 2013, the first lady posted her first photo to Instagram. In 2015, Obama sent his first tweet from @POTUS, an account which now has 11 million followers. This year, the White House posted its first official story on Snapchat, a promotion of the president’s State of the Union address. White House officials said the focus on social media is simply a strategy of going to where people get their news. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Obama Uses Social Media to Engage and Persuade the Bulk of a Generation

by Kevin Freking Associated PressJanuary 5, 2017

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama answers a question during a news conference at the Pentagon. President Barack Obama has cut short the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama Cuts Sentences for More Than 100 Federal Prisoners

by Kevin Freking Associated PressAugust 31, 2016

President Barack Obama reaches to shake hands with Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, after arriving on Air Force One at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. Obama is traveling to the area to survey the flood damage. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama Tours Flooded Louisiana

by Kevin Freking Associated PressAugust 23, 2016

Former President George W. Bush shakes hands with President Barack Obama during an interfaith memorial service for the fallen police officers and members of the Dallas community, Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Former first lady Laura Bush is a left and first lady Michelle Obama is at center. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Obama Calls Police, Activists to White House<M

by Kevin Freking Associated PressJuly 13, 2016

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, welcomes U.S. President Barack Obama to the North American Leaders' Summit in Ottawa, Wednesday June 29, 2016. (Fred Chartrand/The Canadian Press via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

North American Leaders Meet

by Kevin Freking Associated Press, and Rob Gillies Associated PressJune 30, 2016

Young People in Recovery President and CEO Justin Riley listens at left as President Obama speaks during a panel discussion at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit at AmericasMart Atlanta on Tuesday.

Obama Focuses on Opioid Fight

by Kevin Freking Associated PressMarch 30, 2016