Tag: Barack Obama

President Obama said, the U.S. will continue to fortify the Afghanistan government against a takeover from the Taliban after the election of a new leader of the extremist group. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Obama: New Taliban leader offers no hope for accord

Susan Crabtree · May 26, 2016 12:57 pm

President Obama took his push for closer ties directly to the Vietnamese people, meeting with activists and entrepreneurs and arguing that better human rights would boost the communist country's economy, stability and regional power. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Obama’s ‘blunt’ message to Vietnam on human rights

Susan Crabtree · May 26, 2016 12:37 pm

Obama snaps over Clinton emails: ‘I’m not taking another question’

Susan Crabtree · May 26, 2016 11:57 am

President Obama predicted that the Democratic primary contest would be over by the convention at the end of July and both sides will mend fences. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Clinton, Sanders getting ‘grumpy’

Susan Crabtree · May 26, 2016 11:39 am

The new overtime rule from Obama's Department of Labor kills that flexibility for millions of people. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s new overtime rule hurts workers who need flexibility

Jason Russell · May 26, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama has given only a single interview to Washington Post new reporters since late 2009. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama doesn’t talk to the Washington Post

Becket Adams · May 26, 2016 1:32 am

For some reason the Daily Mail kept referring to the posh neighborhood of Kalorama as "Karolama." (AP Photo)

Oops: Daily Mail mangles report on Obama’s next digs

Becket Adams · May 25, 2016 11:12 pm

The White House said in a blog post that the rule "would drive greater disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related risk data among the government's supply chain." (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Obama wants federal contractors’ climate data

John Siciliano · May 25, 2016 9:09 pm

Bruner ran for a four-year term on the Texas State Board of Education in one of the board's 15 districts. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

Political candidate who called Obama a ‘gay prostitute’ loses

Jason Russell · May 25, 2016 8:37 pm

Eleven states filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Obama administration to challenge its federal guidance on how schools should accommodate transgender students. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Eleven states sue Obama administration over transgender bathroom guidance

Kelly Cohen · May 25, 2016 6:42 pm

"I would hope that the administration would seem to lessen its objections to Congress coming out with new sanctions," Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Key House Dem calls for new Iranian sanctions

Nicole Duran · May 25, 2016 4:55 pm

Here’s the mansion the Obamas will live in starting in 2017

Kelly Cohen · May 25, 2016 4:31 pm