Tag: Barack Obama

Obama Rebuked By One of His Own

Terry Eastland · July 14, 2016 11:09 am

President Obama will meet Thursday with Cameron Sterling, the son of the late Alton Sterling, who was killed last week in an incident with Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Obama to meet with Alton Sterling’s son Thursday

Anna Giaritelli · July 14, 2016 2:36 am

Obama taped an anti-gun violence message for the 2016 ESPY Awards show. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, Biden make ESPY appearances

Nicole Duran · July 14, 2016 1:16 am

Obama acknowledged that widespread agreement on how to address the grievances is fairly elusive. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: U.S. will have race problems ‘for quite some time’

Nicole Duran · July 14, 2016 12:13 am

At a funeral service in Dallas July 12 both George W. Bush and Barack Obama delivered excellent speeches — until Obama went on at greater length to suggest once again that black men are being gunned down by racist police and that this problem could be solved somehow by gun control legislation. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Events roil the 2016 campaign

Michael Barone · July 14, 2016 12:06 am

"In response to the deteriorating security situation in South Sudan, I have ordered the deployment of additional U.S. Armed Forces personnel to South Sudan to support the security of U.S. personnel and our Embassy in Juba," President Obama wrote in a letter to Congress mandated by the War Powers Resolution. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

National Security

Obama deploys nearly 50 troops to South Sudan

Nicole Duran · July 13, 2016 11:44 pm

In his speech Tuesday to a crowd of roughly 2,000, President Obama said he was speaking "to insist that we are not as divided as we seem." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

GOP lawmaker: Obama reaped ‘what he sowed’ in Dallas shootings

Kelly Cohen · July 13, 2016 7:30 pm

Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that President Obama feels "pride and appreciation" for the public service of both Lynch and Comey. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

WH: Obama feels ‘pride’ over how Lynch, Comey handled Congress

Susan Crabtree · July 13, 2016 6:36 pm

People associated with the controversial Black Lives Matter movement are attending Wednesday's White House meeting to address mistrust and violence between police and minority communities. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

BLM activists attending White House meeting on police practices

Nicole Duran · July 13, 2016 5:55 pm

He was quick to note that Obama said that words have been "inadequate in completely solving this problem." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WH: Responses to Obama speech show U.S. is ‘making some progress’

Susan Crabtree · July 13, 2016 5:45 pm

Ruth Bader Ginsburg "didn't earn the nickname the Notorious R.B.G. for nothing," White House spokesperson quipped on Wednesday, using the moniker the Supreme Court jurist has earned for her feistiness. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

White House refuses to criticize ‘the Notorious R.B.G.’

Nicole Duran · July 13, 2016 5:31 pm

A Glock 30SF .45 Auto semi-automatic pistol with a standard ten-round magazine is seen with .45 Auto full metal jacket ball ammunition. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Washington Secrets

Scorecard: 41,000% easier for teen to ‘get his hands on’ a book than a Glock

Paul Bedard · July 13, 2016 4:00 pm