Barack Obama

Joe Biden walks on stage before the start of the second night of the second 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential debate in Detroit, July 31, 2019. LUCAS JACKSON/Reuters Joe Biden faced sustained attacks during Wednesdays Democratic presidential debate from ri…

Former Vice President Joe Biden is introduced before the second of two Democratic presidential primary debates on July 31, 2019. | Paul Sancya/AP “Barack Obama knew exactly who I was”: Joe Biden defends his past record by invoking Obama. Former Vice President…

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 …