To Finish Up Year, Obama Will Hold A Press Conference
President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 17. Doug Mills/AP hide caption
President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Dec. 17.
Doug Mills/APPresident Obama will close out 2014 with his traditional end-of-year press conference.
The press conference is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. ET., and it's bound to be eventful because Obama has a lot to talk about.
Among the news events that will likely come up:
-- The normalization of diplomatic relations with Cuba.
-- Obama's unilateral actions to delay the deportation of some 4 million immigrants.
-- The Sony hack and whether North Korea had anything to do with it.
-- The fight against the Islamic State.
-- The end of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan at the end of the year.
-- The protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
-- The political realities of a Senate and House controlled by the GOP.
-- His views on the Senate's "torture report."
NPR will air live coverage of the press conference and we'll blog it. Afterward, Obama will head to Hawaii for a vacation with his family.