Obama's in-tray: from gun control to tax, second term will be full of battles

As he revels in his second public inauguration, the president knows his legacy lies at the end of a number of perilous paths Barack Obama was officially sworn in as president for a second term at noon on Sunday, in a White House ceremony that was relatively quiet, compared with the one that will take place with hundreds of thousands lining the Mall on Monday. It would have been a major disappointment in November for many Americans, not least African-Americans, if the first black president had on...