Tag: Barack Obama

Following President Trump's Twitter announcement that transgender people will be barred from the military, the personnel, health care and fairness issues sure to ensue may compel some soldiers, sailors and others to hide their identities and live a lie to remain in the military.

Oops: Obama-era official blasts Trump for his 2013 tweet about World War III

Mandy Mayfield · August 8, 2017 10:42 pm

During the Trump presidency, roughly 50,000 illegal immigrants have been ordered by an immigration judge to be deported from the United States by the Department of Homeland Security. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

Justice Department: Increased removal of illegal immigrants shows ‘return to rule of law’

Kelly Cohen · August 8, 2017 7:07 pm

The D.C. Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision said EPA does not have the authority to enact a 2015 rulemaking ending the use of hydrofluorocarbons commonly found in spray cans, automobile air conditioners, and refrigerators.

Energy and Environment

Federal court strikes down EPA rule key to Obama’s climate agenda

John Siciliano · August 8, 2017 6:28 pm

Naturally the New York Times is shocked by this odd ritual. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

New York Times shocked that Sarah Huckabee Sanders reads devotions before press briefings

Philip Wegmann · August 8, 2017 5:21 pm

The Department of Justice has reversed itself in a voting case in Ohio after the Supreme Court said in May it would hear the dispute next term. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Justice Department reverses position in Ohio voting rights case

Kelly Cohen · August 8, 2017 3:42 pm

President Donald Trump signs a memorandum on Orderly Liquidation Authority, Friday, April 21, 2017, at the Treasury Department in Washington. Trump signed an executive order to review tax regulations set last year by his predecessor, as well as two memos to potentially reconsider major elements of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in the wake of the Great Recession. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Washington Secrets

Regulation revolution: ‘Historic’ Trump cuts, 1/20th of Obama’s deluge, $23B slashed

Paul Bedard · August 8, 2017 1:04 pm

In an order Wednesday, the court stayed part of a district court decision "with respect to refugees covered by a formal assurance." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Legislators with black robes

Robert Ehrlich · August 8, 2017 4:01 am

Trump last week signed legislation into law that imposes tougher sanctions against Russia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Moscow: Trump ‘tougher’ on Russia policy than Obama

Pete Kasperowicz · August 7, 2017 8:44 pm

The Trump administration on Monday took a step forward to overhaul the government's land policies for protecting the chicken-sized sage grouse in the West. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Energy and Environment

Trump team moves to overhaul sage grouse protections

John Siciliano · August 7, 2017 7:41 pm

Kenyan politics is often divided along ethnic lines and areas where these tensions could erupt into violence also concern Kenyans and election monitors. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Barack Obama calls for ‘peaceful and credible’ Kenyan elections amid fears of violence

Leah DePiero · August 7, 2017 7:03 pm

The use of alias accounts aren't illegal, and for the most part are seen as acceptable provided that emails which ought to be discovered and turned over in response to FOIA requests or subpoenas aren't hidden when they are requested under FOIA. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Loretta Lynch used ‘Elizabeth Carlisle’ email alias at Department of Justice

Todd Shepherd · August 7, 2017 5:38 pm

This graphic was included in a release from New York Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat's celebration of the fifth anniversary of DACA.

Obama eased rules to welcome 1 million illegal youths, status now in doubt

Paul Bedard · August 7, 2017 3:46 pm