Barack Obama

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In 2008, as the Great Recession was starting to take hold, my travels reporting on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign took me to one American city after another that…

Colvin Scott, the influential reggae artist who performed as Cocoa Tea, has died. The singer’s wife, Malvia Scott, confirmed the news to Jamaican news outlet The Gleaner , stating that her husband died Tuesday morning (March 11) at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, following cardiac arrest. He was 65…

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By Mandy Taheri is a Newsweek reporter based in Brooklyn. She joined Newsweek as a reporter in 2024. You can get in touch with Mandy via email: m.taheri@newsweek.com. Languages: English, French Mandy Taheri Weekend Reporter Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has canceled the lease for the Barack Obama Presidential…

Image Credit: Getty Images Severance , directed by Ben Stiller ,  has been a hit, with many tuning in to watch the highly anticipated second season of the thriller series, starring Adam Scott , Britt Lower , Zach Cherry , Christopher Walken , and more. Adam, 51, shared in a…

Severance Apple Well, there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write, but here we are. Severance season 2 is currently blowing everyone’s minds after a three year break, as expected, but it almost did something even weirder than what we’ve seen so far: cast Barack Obama. Ben Stiller has revealed…

According to Ben Stiller, Barack Obama turned down a potential role in Severance . The former president was his first choice to voice the Lumon Industries building in the training video from the season 2 premiere—but the role eventually went to Keanu Reeves. “There was one person that I asked…

Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday was magnitudes below presidential, as the United States leveraged the critical wartime meeting for measly political gain by defending Russian President Vladimir Putin while denigrating former American officials, including Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and California Senator…

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Mitch McConnell will end his Senate career with his most indelible mark on the nation’s federal courts and the chamber’s judicial confirmation process, a priority that changed the chamber’s rules and solidified a conservative Supreme Court for the foreseeable future. As majority leader during the last two years of President…