Barack Obama

Barack Obama, the former president whos demonstrated a fine taste in pop cultureunlike that other guy who just fast-forwards through Bloodsporthas officially released his summer reading list for 2019. Using the presidential platform of Facebook, Obama posted …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A slowdown in U.S. manufacturing is hitting jobs in states that flipped to Donald Trump in the 2016 election and that will be key to the Republican president’s re-election prospects in 2020. Trump is telling voters across the country …

“Avengers” actor Chris Evans says faces would’ve melted at Fox News if former President Barack Obama had ever called himself the “chosen one,” as President Donald Trump did on Wednesday.  Trump made the comments while discussing his trade war with China. He …

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The agriculture and biofuel industries and their allies in the U.S. Congress ramped up pressure on the Trump administration on Wednesday over the relief he has given oil refiners from rules requiring use of biofuels. Long-suf…

The term "meritocracy" was coined in Michael Young's satirical 1958 novel, "The Rise of Meritocracy," where it described a kind of self-delusion in which rich people convinced themselves that their wealth was evidence of their moral superiority; it's well-doc…

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump says it would be appropriate for Russia to be readmitted to a group of the world’s major industrial nations. Trump says Russia is often discussed when he and the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Jap…

(CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday outlined a stem-to-stern criminal justice overhaul that would abolish the death penalty and end cash bail, while unwinding most of the 1994 crime bill and investing heavily in diversion programs. The Democratic president…

Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry left the door open for a presidential cameo as he helps launch a golf program at Howard University. "Oh, for sure. For sure," Curry told TMZ Sports when asked if he expects Barack Obama to…

Mr. Castro divided his remarks into three parts: First, there was the story of growing up the son of a single mom, raised partly by his grandmother Victoria, who had left Mexico when she was a child and worked as a maid most of her life, barely scraping by, b…

Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press The jersey that former President Barack Obama is believed to have worn during his high school basketball days at Punahou School in Honolulu sold at auction for $120,000, according to the Associated Press. The buyer chose to r…