Barack Obama

(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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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…

WASHINGTON  When Barack Obama was elected to the Senate in 2004, he received a congratulatory note from the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Richard Lugar's outreach to the up-and-coming Democrat helped give Obama the foreign relatio…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption President Donald Trump promised to 'never surrender American sovereignty to anyone' US president Donald Trump has said he will withdraw the US from the international Arms Trade Treaty. The agreement, signed by Barack Obama …

President Trump chose the backdrop of the National Rifle Associations leadership forum to announce his latest blow to multilateral institutions. In a speech to the pro-gun group in Indianapolis, President Trump announced he would pull the United States out of…