Barack Obama

(CNN)The Trump administration has taken a step toward changing the way the poverty threshold is calculated, a move that could strip many low-income Americans of their federal benefits. The annual increase in the official poverty line, which determines who qu…

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he plans to appoint Mark Morgan, a border patrol chief under former President Barack Obama who supports Trump’s border wall, to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. …

(CNN)The City of Los Angeles has renamed a nearly 4-mile stretch of road from "Rodeo Road" to "Obama Boulevard," in honor of the country's first African-American president. The location is significant, the city said, because Obama held his first campaign ra…

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Obamas and Netflix reveal joint projects

Celebrities are remembering John Singleton following his death Monday. The Oscar-nominated director/producer/writer behind 1991's "Boyz n the Hood" died after being taken off life support following a stroke this month, the Associated Press reported Monday. …

After forming a production company and landing a major deal with Netflix last year, former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have landed on several projects they plan to bring to the small screen. True to the Obamas diverse interests durin…

The nations top health official, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, praised his boss Donald Trump on Monday for supposedly contributing to some kind of scientific debate about whether vaccines cause autism (they do not) and that it is now settl…

Mr. Lugar called the I.N.F. withdrawal a gravely misguided decision that will not make us safer, it will rob us of leverage essential to our own security and power. And after having opposed many in his own party to ensure passage of New Start, he urged Mr. Tr…