Barack Obama

Larry Wilmore attends the I Have A Dream Foundations Fifth Annual Los Angeles Dreamer Dinner at Skirball Cultural Center on March 18, 2018. This week, The Gist, the daily news and culture podcast I host for Slate, turned 5 years old. To celebrate, my produce…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Prakazrel Michel has been charged with making contributions to a presidential campaign A founding member of hip-hop group The Fugees and a Malaysian businessman have been charged with making illegal contributions in…

This gesture spoke volumes. Bill Gates was looking for the best way to introduce his wife Melinda on the final stop of her book tour for The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. So he called an old friend and former president for help. …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who was being detained for refusing to testify before a grand jury, was released on Thursday and immediately summoned to appear before a new grand jury next week, her lawyers said. …

Joe Bidens pitch for his third attempt to win his partys presidential nomination has revolved largely around two words: Barack Obama. The former vice president and early front-runner is casting himself not only as the most electable candidate, but also the o…

The electric-truck company Workhorse is talking to General Motors about buying its assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. President Donald Trump apparently preempted an official announcement about the deal on Wednesday, after a conversation with GM CEO Mary Ba…

But unless the courts move to enforce the contempt resolution, it will have no teeth, and court action takes time. When Barack Obama was president, House Republicans held Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in contempt of Congress for his failure to provide d…

(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…

The case for Bidens unique electability rests on his overall …

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. …