Barack Obama

Four years later, Mr. Sharpton incited violence again. In 1995, Fred Harari, a Jewish tenant of a retail property on 125th Street who operated Freddys Fashion Mart, sought to evict his longtime subtenant, a black-owned record store called the Record Shack. Be…

Only a few candidates in recent decades have managed to project a moderate vision of change that still excited much of the Democratic base, and in this century the only candidate fitting that description has been Barack Obama. The number of candidates who mi…

Barack Obama joined his wife Michelle Obama in publicly wishing her mother Marian Robinson a happy birthday. The former president and first lady both used Instagram to pay sweet tribute to Robinson, who turns 82 on Tuesday. Michelle Obama shared this undate…

The messages were not always consistent. Mr. Trump has claimed that Mr. Muellers report represented complete and total exoneration, which the special counsel made clear again on Wednesday was not true. So Republicans spent much of the day trying to establish …

Image copyrightEPA Boris Johnson is due to become the 55th person to be prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In charge of a budget of around £800bn, the UK's 150,000 troops and the power to press the nuclear button, it is a role that carri…

Still, as it grapples with a record number of migrant families at the southern border, the Trump administration has so far deported fewer people, on average each year, than the Obama administration. In fiscal year 2018, the Trump administration deported 256,…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has sanctioned the China’s state-run energy company Zhuhai Zhengrong Co Ltd for allegedly violating restrictions imposed on Iran’s oil sector, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech on Monday. “We’ve sa…

(Since 2011, federal income taxation has increased under President Barack Obama and declined under President Trump. Data on the full impact of those countervailing changes is not yet available.) The headline problem is that Congress sharply reduced taxation …

Though no longer president, Mr. Ahmadinejad still wields considerable influence in Iran, which is why his offer of a grand bargain shouldnt be dismissed out of hand. Mr. Ahmadinejad, according to The Times, proposed that the rival governments should discuss…

EDITOR'S NOTE: This video was originally published on July 20, 2017 when Sen. John McCain was first diagnosed with cancer. He passed away on August 25, 2018.