Tag: Barack Obama

Texas court says Obama's expansion of a rule governing labor lawyers is unconstitutional. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Court scraps Labor Department’s ‘persuader’ rule

Sean Higgins · December 13, 2016 8:43 pm

President Obama signs the 21st Century Cures Act into law. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama signs Cures legislation

Robert King · December 13, 2016 8:33 pm

Borrowers were defrauded by the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institutes. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s student-debt forgiveness is textbook subsidized irresponsibility

Philip Wegmann · December 13, 2016 8:20 pm

A liberal activist group on Tuesday endorsed Rep. Keith Ellison for Democratic National Committee chairman. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Key liberal group backs Keith Ellison for DNC chairman

David M. Drucker · December 13, 2016 4:18 pm

National Security

Obama warns Trump on briefings: ‘It doesn’t matter how smart you are’

Meghana Kurup · December 13, 2016 2:07 pm

John Bolton accused President Barack Obama of disliking American exceptionalism. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

Bolton: Obama’s Russia probe shows ‘selective moral outrage’

Anna Giaritelli · December 13, 2016 4:15 am

Press secretary Josh Earnest called members of the intelligence community "patriots." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

White House defends intelligence community from Trump’s attacks

Gabby Morrongiello · December 12, 2016 6:29 pm

President Obama has signed eight executive orders since Election Day. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Beltway Confidential

Obama executive order an environmental stumbling block for Trump

Philip Wegmann · December 12, 2016 6:09 pm

The burned hulks of heavy trucks sit on Highway 1806 near Cannon Ball, N.D., on Friday, Oct. 28, near the spot where protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline were evicted from private property a day earlier. Authorities say they have received little federal help to calm protests despite repeated requests. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

Washington Secrets

Sheriffs: ‘Completely and utterly abandoned’ by Obama, Justice in N.D. protest

Paul Bedard · December 12, 2016 1:44 pm

Andrea Aguilera sits at the Erie Neighborhood House in Chicago on Nov. 17. Aguilera, 20, a student at a suburban Chicago college, said she feels uncertain since the election. She was brought to the country illegally as a child and has been able to get a work permit and avoid deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Trump’s first immigration compromise could be how he treats Dreamers

Gabby Morrongiello · December 12, 2016 5:01 am

"I think President Obama has been terrific. He's been, you know, very respectful of the process and everything else. So, I saw that," said President-elect Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump: Obama is ‘terrific’

Caitlin Yilek · December 11, 2016 2:54 pm

"It is true what they say, that personnel is policy," says a former healthcare adviser to President Obama. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Trump filling his Cabinet with Obamacare foes

Paige Winfield Cunningham · December 11, 2016 5:01 am