Tag: Barack Obama

President Barack Obama speaks at the southern site of the Keystone XL pipeline on March 22, 2012 in Cushing, Oklahoma. Obama is pressing federal agencies to expedite the section of the Keystone XL pipeline between Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty images)

Energy and Environment

Republicans plan to attack Obama’s climate agenda early and often

Zack Colman · December 27, 2014 10:00 am

Though Lee has a history of adamantly opposing Obama, the phone call shows that bipartisanship isn't impossible. (AP File Photo/Rick Bowmer)

The pleasant phone call between Obama and a tea party senator

Kelly Cohen · December 26, 2014 9:03 pm

Weekly Examiner: Sony releases ‘The Interview’

Lisa Ruhl · December 26, 2014 8:07 pm

A demonstrator chants during a rally in downtown Manhattan in New York. In the past three weeks, grand juries have decided not to indict officers in the chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York and the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. The decisions have unleashed demonstrations and questions about police conduct and whether local prosecutors are the best choice for investigating police. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

What Twitter talked about most in 2014

Kelly Cohen · December 26, 2014 7:57 pm

‘His Hands Are Very Soft’

Daniel Halper · December 26, 2014 5:05 pm

The president has clearly telegraphed in which areas he thinks he and Republicans might be able to compromise. Â (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama says U.S. ‘less racially divided’

Brian Hughes · December 26, 2014 4:48 pm

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Feds spending $50 million on new immigration workers

Brian Hughes · December 26, 2014 4:23 pm

In this Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014 photo, Afghan internally displaced people walk at a camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

National Security

Obama: Afghanistan won’t be ‘source of terrorist attacks again’

Brian Hughes · December 26, 2014 3:08 pm

Obama Promises to End ‘Combat Mission’ in Afghanistan ‘Next Week’

Daniel Halper · December 26, 2014 11:57 am

Program to give military gear to cops caused controversy in 2014

Kelly Cohen · December 26, 2014 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

The year of campus sexual assault that wasn’t

Ashe Schow · December 26, 2014 10:00 am

President Obama made calls to members of each military branch around the country before Christmas Eve dinner, according to a White House press pool report. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

Obama calls military to offer Christmas gratitude

Zack Colman · December 25, 2014 9:49 pm