Barack Obama

As the so-called Islamic State captured eastern Syria and marched across northern Iraq in the late summer of 2014, then-U.S. Special Forces Maj. Gen. Michael Nagata promised then President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden that he would turn raw Syrian recruits into an effective fighting force to decimate…

1.38am BST01:38 Summary Updated at 2.12am BST 1.28am BST01:28 Trump spreads Covid misinformation in Pennsylvania At his Pittsburgh rally, which is ongoing, the president has continued to spread misleading and dangerous claims about the Covid crisis. A few examples so far: He claimed Democrats are “trying to make our numbers…

Stop the presses! Mitch McConnell has a nonsensical explanation for why his insistence that the Senate confirm a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Ginsburg six weeks before Election Day does not contradict his refusal, in 2016, to confirm a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia eight months before…

President Donald Trump on Monday suggested that congressional Democrats invented reports of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish. Ginsburg reportedly told her granddaughter that her "fervent wish" was that her Supreme Court seat remain vacant "until a new president is installed." "I don't know that she said that, or was that…

Only 52% of self-identified conservatives say they're in favor of a Supreme Court nominee getting a vote before Election Day, according to a new Insider SurveyMonkey audience poll. The poll found a strong but limited desire to get a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg confirmed ahead of the election, with…

Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images) Fact: Mitch McConnell blocked former President Barack Obama’s nominee for months ahead of the 2016 election Travis Gettys September 21, 2020 3:36PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Raw Story President Donald Trump suggested his predecessor was too lazy to…

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Washington, before departing for a campaign rally in North Carolina. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Washington, before…

Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia about the Supreme Court on Sept. 20, 2020. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Joe Biden on Sunday appealed to Senate Republicans in the aftermath of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing, asking them to "cool the flames…

Twitter it was looking into why the neural network it uses to generate photo previews apparently chooses to show white people’s faces more frequently than Black faces. Several Twitter users demonstrated the issue over the weekend, posting examples of posts that had a Black person’s face and a white person’s…

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said in a statement Saturday that the president elected on November 3 should be the one to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. Collins did not outright refuse to vote on a nominee ahead of the election, but said…