Tag: Barack Obama

The city of Chicago moved Tuesday to fire the five police officers involved in the October 2014 fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald. (Chicago Police Department via AP File)

Chicago moves to fire cops involved in Laquan McDonald shooting

Anna Giaritelli · August 30, 2016 11:38 pm

President will guest edit the technology publication's November issue. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama goes techie with Wired magazine

Nicole Duran · August 30, 2016 11:00 pm

The move brings the president’s total commutations to 673, more than the past 10 presidents combined. Obama commuted the sentences of 325 people in August alone. (AP Photo)

Obama commutes sentences of another 111 people

Kelly Cohen · August 30, 2016 7:18 pm

President Barack Obama, center, Cy Walker, left, and Joe Paulsen, right, leave the first green during a round of golf at Farm Neck Golf Course in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Washington Secrets

Gallup: Well-being of blacks plummets, up for white GOP under Obama

Paul Bedard · August 30, 2016 5:50 pm

GOP says practice help Obama funnel money to groups he supports and short-change consumers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP moves to shut down Obama’s latest ‘slush fund’

Pete Kasperowicz · August 30, 2016 5:47 pm

Last year, President Obama vetoed the fiscal 2016 defense policy bill over funding concerns, but eventually signed a final bill before the end of the year. (AP Photo)

National Security

Experts expect Obama to veto defense policy bill this year

Jacqueline Klimas · August 30, 2016 5:39 pm

Earnest noted that EU spokesman is also confident that Brussels and D.C can meet their "ambitious" deadline. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama still hopeful he can finish EU trade deal by January

Nicole Duran · August 30, 2016 4:52 pm

Earnest said Republicans "wouldn't even hold a hearing to talk about the issue." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

White House: GOP to blame for cyberinsecurity

Susan Crabtree · August 30, 2016 4:36 pm

Climate change will be high on the agenda when Obama sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials going into the major meeting of industrialized nations, Brian Deese, the president's senior climate adviser, told reporters Monday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Energy and Environment

Obama preps for climate change talks in Asia

John Siciliano · August 30, 2016 1:01 am

According to the CNN, two people were wounded after shots were fired near the voting location in Azusa, Calif. The shots were not fired inside the polling location. (Wikimedia Commons)

Massachusetts man arrested for threatening to kill police, Obama

Kelly Cohen · August 29, 2016 7:55 pm

President Obama will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in China next week. (AP Photo/Yasin Bulbul, Presidential Press Service, Pool)

National Security

Obama, Erdogan to work on Syria plan at G20

Susan Crabtree · August 29, 2016 6:58 pm

The 10,000 refugees represents a six-fold increase in the number of Syrian refugees admitted from the prior year, the administration said in a statement issued Monday. (AP Photo)

National Security

Obama admits 10,000 Syrian refugees ahead of schedule

Susan Crabtree · August 29, 2016 5:30 pm