Barack Obama

Former Vice President Joe Biden isn’t the only Democratic presidential candidate who can put former President Barack Obama in his ads. One of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s newest ads in Iowa features footage of Obama announcing that she would help lead the creatio…

US officials have been lying to the American people about US failures in Afghanistan, where the US military has been fighting its longest armed conflict in US history, a collection of confidential documents obtained by the Washington Post revealed. Over the …

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has died at age 92. Volcker headed the central bank from 1979 to 1987. When he took over, the economy was suffering from runaway inflation. Volcker pushed interest rates to historic highs to tame it, triggering a r…

Caroll Spinney, better known to multiple generations of curious kindergarteners and their parents as Sesame Streets Big Bird, died today. He was 85. Spinney had the longest run of the shows original actors, starting with the shows 1969 debut until his retirem…

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration failed to do a cost-benefit analysis to assess air quality or take into account the impact on childrens health when it sought to eliminate pollution limits on heavy-duty trucks with rebuilt …

When I was younger, I would feel so badly about abandoning a book that didn’t grab me, I’d force myself to slog through it until the bitter end. Then I realized that there are only so many books I’ll have time to read in my lifetime so it’s better to…

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questions a panel of constitutional experts during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment Inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington Rep. Matt Gaetz suggested impeaching former President…

(Reuters) - The U.S. House Judiciary Committee announced on Monday it will call four witnesses, all of them law professors, during the first day of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Hearings in the Democrat-controlled House start Wednesda…

No story in recent U.S. history illustrates the brutal fallacy of American exceptionalism than the CIA torture program and its cover-up. This week on Intercepted: As Washington D.C. remains focused on the Trump impeachment, Daniel Jones, the former top Sena…

The California senator once looked like a strong contender and a successor to Barack Obama in vote-getting appeal. But her campaign was beset by problems and she was unable to raise enough donations to continue. (File Photo) Mike Blake/Reuters Kamala Harri…