Barack Obama

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Non-border immigration arrests in the United States fell by 10 percent in the year to September from a year earlier, the latest U.S. data shows, a drop the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said was partly due to the div…

Kehinde Wiley's statue, "Rumors of War," seen at New York's Times Square in late September. The work was unveiled Tuesday in Richmond as a permanent installation. Bebeto Matthews/AP In Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War, towering …

The Kindle Unlimited program is $10 a month, and it gives you access to over a million books and comics on Amazon. Amazon is currently offering a deal: 3 months for 99 cents a month. The program includes a lot of popular books: the Harry Potter series, The Ha…

Former Vice President Joe Biden isn’t the only Democratic presidential candidate who can put former President Barack Obama in his ads. One of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s newest ads in Iowa features footage of Obama announcing that she would help lead the creatio…

US officials have been lying to the American people about US failures in Afghanistan, where the US military has been fighting its longest armed conflict in US history, a collection of confidential documents obtained by the Washington Post revealed. Over the …

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker has died at age 92. Volcker headed the central bank from 1979 to 1987. When he took over, the economy was suffering from runaway inflation. Volcker pushed interest rates to historic highs to tame it, triggering a r…

Caroll Spinney, better known to multiple generations of curious kindergarteners and their parents as Sesame Streets Big Bird, died today. He was 85. Spinney had the longest run of the shows original actors, starting with the shows 1969 debut until his retirem…

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration failed to do a cost-benefit analysis to assess air quality or take into account the impact on childrens health when it sought to eliminate pollution limits on heavy-duty trucks with rebuilt …

When I was younger, I would feel so badly about abandoning a book that didn’t grab me, I’d force myself to slog through it until the bitter end. Then I realized that there are only so many books I’ll have time to read in my lifetime so it’s better to…

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) questions a panel of constitutional experts during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment Inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington Rep. Matt Gaetz suggested impeaching former President…