Barack Obama

What: Footage of a mid-’00s Bill Hader doing celebrity impressions, enhanced with high-grade face-morphing tech.Who: YouTube’s resident deepfake wizard, Ctrl Shift Face. Why we care: The danger posed by sophisticated face-altering technology is hard to overs…

The judge rejected the White House claim that Congress does not have legitimate oversight, pointing to precedents involving James Buchanan, Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. Or, as history will remember them, bizarro Mount Rushmore. STEPHEN C…

Stephen Colbert appears to be enjoying the irony of the latest legal twist in a court case involving President Donald Trump. Trump lost when he went to court to try to block a House committee from obtaining his financial records, and his attorney vowed to ap…

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday ruled in favor of a U.S. House of Representatives committee seeking President Trump’s financial records from his accounting firm, dealing an early setback to the Trump administration in its legal battle with Congress. U.S.…

He has either coarsened the public discourse or reflected it, or perhaps both, depending on your view of him, but he is not alone. Society in recent years has embraced what used to be considered profanity. Even The New York Times, the so-called Gray Lady with…

Donald Trump has a well-articulated strategy toward Iran. Like almost every other Republican candidate for president in 2016, he argued that President Barack Obama empowered Iran at the expense of Americas traditional allies and its own vital interests. Trump…

Asked if it was too soon for Mr. Biden to be focusing on Mr. Trump when he had yet to win the crowded Democratic primary, she made clear that her focus is on the general election, too: Whatever he needs to do to win. He got some of the most…

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge found former U.S. soldier and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning in contempt of court and ordered her back to jail on Thursday for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury, a law enforcement offic…

Chelsea Manning, who was released from jail last week after the federal grand jury she was subpoenaed to testify before lapsed, was taken back into custody on Thursday as a recalcitrant witness. Manning, whose arrest was confirmed by members of her support c…

Finally, the endgame can no longer be what presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama hoped it would: Beijings peaceful rise as an economic power and a responsible stakeholder in international affairs. Since Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, China has beh…