Barack Obama

If you're president of the United States, Barack Obama has two important tips to help make good decisions. The former US president spoke about his decision making process at a San Francisco event Wednesday organized by data analysis company Splunk. Firs…

President Donald Trump explains he wasn't seeing eye-to-eye with ousted hawkish national security adviser John Bolton. The sudden shake-up comes as the president faces pressing decisions on difficult foreign policy issues. (Sept. 11) AP WASHINGTON  Preside…

When Barack Obama says you're part of his team, you know you're probably doing something pretty cool.  The word cool doesn't begin to cover the actions of 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who is, in the words of Obama himself, "changing t…

Washington (CNN)Former President Barack Obama on Monday met with Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as part of her visit to Washington, DC, to promote environmental issues. "Just 16, @GretaThunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advoca…

Image copyrightThe Washington Post/Getty ImagesImage caption Roberts, photographed in her home in Maryland in February 2019 Pioneering journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts, celebrated for her four-decade career covering US politics, has died …

HOUSTON Wading through throngs of students during a surprise visit at a historically Black university here on Friday, Joe Biden felt the love from a contingent of voters he doesn’t see often at his campaign events: young people.  “It’s Uncle Joe!” one teenag…

Activists delivered a petition with more than 100,000 signatures to the Gates Foundations Seattle headquarters on Monday asking the high-profile organization not to give an award to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event next week.  The petition fro…

Former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden visited a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday and told the congregation that white people "can never fully understand" institutional racism in the United States. He had been visiting the 16th St…

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Democrats’ calls for impeaching Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Sunday after a new report that alleged sexual misconduct, encouraging Kavanaugh to sue for libel and suggesting the Justice Department cou…

Birmingham, Alabama (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden delivered an impassioned speech to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, warning that racism and white supremacy still pers…