Nicole Duran

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Obama on Saturday was forced to exit his plane by using a little-used staircase in Air Force One's belly, when a staircase wasn't rolled up to the plane after it landed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Air Force One staircase flub in China was ‘overblown’

Nicole Duran · September 8, 2016 12:25 pm

President Obama confirmed that he shook hands with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and briefly spoke with the leader Thursday, during the ASEAN Summit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama dismisses Philippine leader’s insult

Nicole Duran · September 8, 2016 11:58 am

President Obama warned in Laos Thursday that voters in the U.S. need to listen closely to Donald Trump's 'wacky' ideas, and vote for Hillary Clinton instead. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Obama warns against Trump’s ‘wacky’ ideas

Nicole Duran · September 8, 2016 11:30 am

President Obama keeps dropping hints about what will occupy his time after he leaves office. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Obama’s pivot to leisure: Some work, some play in his post-presidency

Nicole Duran · September 8, 2016 4:01 am

U.S. President Obama speaks during a town hall with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative at Souphanouvong University in Luang Prabang, Laos. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama warns against rising nativism in U.S.

Nicole Duran · September 7, 2016 12:51 pm

Obama nominated Abid Riaz Qureshi to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama taps first Muslim for federal bench

Nicole Duran · September 6, 2016 10:12 pm

Instead of burkas, the Islamic State will force women to wear gloves and cover their eyes with gauze when entering buildings in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP Photo)

Islamic State bans burkas in Mosul

Nicole Duran · September 6, 2016 5:55 pm

Obama says Asian ‘pivot’ will outlast him

Nicole Duran · September 6, 2016 3:20 pm

President Obama left the door open to negotiations with North Korea after it conducted yet another illicit missile launch on Monday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Obama says U.S. open to talks with North Korea if it starts behaving

Nicole Duran · September 6, 2016 1:57 pm

President Obama said the U.S. military dropped more bombs over Laos during the Vietnam War than it did collectively on Germany and Japan during World War II. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: U.S. has ‘moral obligation’ to Laos

Nicole Duran · September 6, 2016 1:25 pm

Frank Sharry, founder of America's Voice, said the Supreme Court denied President Obama a better legacy when in June it deadlocked over his controversial 2014 immigration order. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Latino activists: Obama ‘completely failed us’

Nicole Duran · September 6, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Antalya will hold a private one-on-one meeting with Obama in China on the margins of the G-20 economic summit on Sunday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

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What will Obama and Erdogan discuss?

Nicole Duran · September 4, 2016 4:23 am