Barack Obama

In 2011, President Barack Obama declared it was time for America to leave behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “pivot” to Asia to counter the rise of China. Fifteen years later, the U.S. finds itself still at war in the Middle East and has pulled military assets from…

No project better embodies the nation’s wild swings in climate and energy policy than the Keystone XL pipeline. Proposed in 2008 to carry Canadian oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the conduit was killed by President Barack Obama and then revived by Donald Trump in his first term, only to…

Stephen Colbert appeared to accidentally reference former President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign slogan “Yes, We Can” while trying to mock President Donald Trump during Monday’s episode of CBS’ The Late Show. “After being terrorized by Trump’s immigration goons for months, over 200,000 people stood up to the administration in…

Jimmy Kimmel attended a “No Kings” rally in California this weekend, mere months after promoting the last one on his late-night ABC show. Kimmel held a sign captioned “Enough Already,” his two children held anti-Trump signs, while his “Barack Obama” hat-wearing father’s sign said “Deport ICE.” ‘”Great turnout at #NoKings,” is how…

Donald Trump criticized Barack Obama, calling him a “terrible” president, but said he does not think Obama is the worst leader the U.S. has ever had. Speaking for about an hour at a Republican fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., Trump encouraged members of his party to stay united, especially as…

The digital landscape was set ablaze following former President Barack Obama’s tribute to Robert Mueller, the former FBI Director, who passed away on Friday night at the age of 81. Obama’s message, lauding Mueller’s steadfast dedication to the rule of law, resonated widely across social media, stirring both admiration and…

Left: Andrew Walter Sandvik (Fargo Police Department). Right: President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). A man from North Dakota has confessed to making threats against former President Donald…

We've written before about Barack Obama's presidential center in Chicago.  I wasn't kind with my headline, "The Obama Library Is Ugly For a Reason." Not only did it look like a Soviet-style dystopian prison, but then they added words to the outside and made things worse, as my colleague Bob…

On a US late-night television show on Saturday, the host played a clip from 2011 of a businessman warning that president Barack Obama “will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate.” That businessman was Donald Trump. Military strikes on Iran Fast-forward 15 years and…

US President Donald Trump says he will direct US agencies, including the defence department, to “begin the process of identifying and releasing” government files on aliens and extraterrestrial life. Trump made the declaration in a post on Truth Social, after he accused Barack Obama earlier in the day of revealing…