Obama hosts year-end press conference in White House U.S. President Barack Obama hosts the year-end press conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, Dec. 20, 2013. Xinhua/Zhang Jun WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- At the end of his fifth year in the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday rejected the year of 2013 as the worst of his tenure, and expected 2014 to be "a breakthrough year for America."Full Story