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Obama offers ‘love, prayers of nation’ to Newtown

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President Barack Obama speaks during an interfaith vigil for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on Sunday at Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn.

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A mournful President Barack Obama said Sunday that the nation is failing to keep its children safe, pledging that change must come after an elementary-school massacre left 20 children dead. “I am very mindful that mere words cannot match the depth of your sorrow, nor can they heal your wounded hearts.”