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Photograph: Ashlee Rezin Garcia/AP On Tuesday, in Chicago, former president Barack Obama joined actress Yara Shahidi in a conversation with activists from his Obama Foundation program. Over the nearly 1.5-hour Obama Foundation summit event, the beloved polit…

Pipelines were made for transporting oil. But some, it appears, were made for leaking. The Keystone Pipeline System is one of those. The system runs more than 2,600 miles from Canada and into Nebraska where it splits. And on Tuesday night, it began to spill …

Barack Obama derided "call-out culture" in a speech at the Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, saying achieving real change is more complex than being "as judgmental as possible." "This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke,…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption John Conyers greets Barack Obama in Detroit in January 2016 The longest-serving black member of the US Congress, John Conyers, has died at home at the age of 90, police in Detroit say. The Democrat resigned under a clou…

(CNN)While the announcement on Sunday of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been praised among a bipartisan group of elected US leaders, current and former law enforcement officials say the possible threat to the US homeland by ISIS sympathizer…

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One wonders what Warren thinks might happen when things dont work out. Industries arent assemblages of Lego blocks that can be taken apart and reassembled according to a clever new design. They are complex and evolving ecosystems, organized around scores of i…

(BALTIMORE) –– Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have remembered congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings for his honor and commitment to service. Speaking to mourners at Cummings’ funeral Friday, Clinton recalled the congressman’s t…

While it varies somewhat from region to region, many of these places sprang up on what was, until recently, farmland and still look a lot like the rural areas that form the heart of Mr. Trumps support whiter, older, less educated. These are also the places th…

WASHINGTON A California venture capitalist who donated lavishly to major politicians of both parties from former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to President Trump has agreed to plead guilty to violating lobbying, campaign finance and tax laws, pro…