Barack Obama

As former President Barack Obama turns 60 this week, civil rights leaders, journalists and close colleagues are looking back on his political career in a new documentary.  HBO's "Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union" (Tuesday through Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT/PDT) is a three-part compilation of archival footage from Obama's early years as a…

Local The outdoor party is expected to have hundreds of guests, though President Joe Biden will not be one of them. The Obamas bought the Turkeyland Cove Road home in Edgartown in 2019. LandVest Former president Barack Obama turns 60 on Wednesday — and he’s celebrating the occasion with a…

‘Don’t forget us’: Duterte thanks US President Biden for COVID-19 vaccines In a rare instance, President Duterte was friendly to the United States, which he once spurned for China, and asked the global superpower not to forget the Philippines, a treaty ally. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his public address on…

US DEFENSE CHIEF VISIT. President Rodrigo Duterte does a fist bump with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III during a courtesy call on the President at the Malacañang Palace on July 29, 2021. Duterte and Austin agreed that the Philippines and the US should bolster their cooperation in battling…

Sarah Palin was asked over the weekend if she might run for Senate in 2022 against Lisa Murkowski, who has recently committed the thought crime of taking her job seriously. Predictably, Palin played it on the coy and emotionally manipulative side, saying: “If God wants me to do it, I…

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Chrise Elise/NBAE via Getty Images The NBA announced on Tuesday that former President Barack Obama has joined NBA Africa as a strategic partner.  Per the league's official announcement, Obama's role will "help advance the league’s social responsibility efforts across the continent, including programs and partnerships that support greater gender equality…

Enzi was admitted to the hospital Friday after a bicycling accident Getty Images Former Sen. Mike Enzi died Monday after being injured in a bicycling accident. The Wyoming Republican was 77. Enzi’s family posted a message to his Twitter account late Monday night, saying, “Former Wyoming U.S. Senator Mike Enzi…

Finally, no joke, it’s Infrastructure Week. At least, that was last week’s scuttlebutt—senators from both parties dismissed last Wednesday’s failed procedural vote as nothing to worry about and talked as if a deal was imminent, perhaps by midweek. The Sunday papers were oddly quiet on the matter, which was really…

With much of Washington focused on griping over an infrastructure bill and the makeup of a House committee that will investigate the January assault on the U.S. Capitol, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell opted for a throwback: holding the debt ceiling hostage for the sake of obstructionism. “I can’t imagine…