Tag: Barack Obama

Obama said he based his decision on "positive steps" taken by the Sudanese government in the last six months. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Obama eases sanctions against Sudan despite terrorism status

Gabby Morrongiello · January 13, 2017 5:37 pm

Pelosi blames Bush for $9 trillion in debt added under Obama

Al Weaver · January 13, 2017 5:07 pm

Beltway Confidential

Obama is right to end preferential treatment for Cuban immigrants

Mark Grabowski · January 13, 2017 4:57 pm

Golf Comes to the Killing Fields

Andrew Ferguson · January 13, 2017 4:33 pm

A Democratic senator said he's concerned about a report that incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn spoke several times with Russia's ambassador to the United States on the day President Obama announced new sanctions. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

National Security

Franken ‘concerned’ that Flynn called Russian ambassador when sanctions were announced

Kyle Feldscher · January 13, 2017 2:59 pm

President Obama speaks during his farewell address in Chicago. Charles Krauthammer said Obama's speech in Chicago was essentially an empty reprisal of his first campaign in 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Krauthammer: Obama presidency ‘a historical parenthesis’

Eddie Scarry · January 13, 2017 2:41 pm

Now for the Post-Post-Cold War Era

Thomas Donnelly · January 13, 2017 6:30 am

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., and other Cuban-America lawmakers criticized the Obama administration's plan to end the wet-foot, dry-foot policy with Cuba. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cuban-American lawmakers blast Obama’s Cuban policy reforms

Anna Giaritelli · January 13, 2017 2:32 am

The repeal of "wet foot dry foot" is likely the last step Obama will take to normalize relations with Cuba. (AP Photo/Roberto Schmidt, File)

National Security

Obama to end longstanding ‘wet foot dry foot’ Cuban immigration policy

Gabby Morrongiello · January 13, 2017 12:27 am

President Obama on Thursday designated three new national monuments having to do with the Reconstruction era and the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama designates new national monuments to Reconstruction and civil rights

Alex Pappas · January 13, 2017 12:07 am

Diaz-Balart has long been one of the most ardent critics of the Cuban government. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

GOP congressman: I wouldn’t be surprised to see Obama ‘massaging Raul Castro’s feet’

Joel Gehrke · January 12, 2017 11:32 pm

Former Harry Reid aide takes parting shot at Valerie Jarrett

Anna Giaritelli · January 12, 2017 11:09 pm