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This week, less than a month to go before inauguration day,

President Obama seemed to be rushing through his bucket list.

Or maybe his rhymes with bucket list.

The president placed a ban on oil and gas drilling

in nearly all the country's Arctic waters

and large sections of the Atlantic Ocean.

President Obama is delivering a generous parting gift to Planned Parenthood in the form of a

rule prohibiting states from divesting millions of dollars from the nation's largest

abortion provider.

The Obama administration says it is ending a dormant program that was once used to track

mostly Muslim

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