Tag: Barack Obama

Cruz PAC hits Kasich for being too close to Obama

Curt Mills · April 2, 2016 7:41 pm

National Security

Obama boasts of ‘important progress’ in fight against nuclear terrorism

Daniel Chaitin · April 2, 2016 2:54 pm

In the Republican's weekly radio address, Sen. Richard Burr warned that the administration policy might allow the Islamic State an opening to "to do harm" in the future. (AP File Photo/Chuck Burton)

National Security

GOP senator: Obama’s ‘containment’ strategy puts U.S. at risk

Daniel Chaitin · April 2, 2016 10:00 am

Turkish President Recep Erdogan was scheduled to deliver an address on free speech Thursday at the Brookings Institution. Before he even spoke a word, however, his security team harassed and physically assaulted several reporters, some of whom they managed to remove forcibly from the scheduled event. (Kayhan Ozer, Presidential Press Service, Pool via AP)

Erdogan’s image-boosting tour sours after assaults against the press

Becket Adams · April 2, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama said that his administration is not considering allowing Iran to use dollars for some business transactions. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama says no dollars for Iran

Nicole Duran · April 2, 2016 1:59 am

President Obama conceded on Friday that despite global progress toward denuclearization during his tenure, pushing back the Doomsday Clock will require Russian cooperation. (AP Photos)

Obama: World needs Russian leadership on nukes

Nicole Duran · April 2, 2016 12:04 am

Obama warns Turkish leader about press freedom

Nicole Duran · April 1, 2016 11:07 pm

"Due to popular demand, we're rescheduling 4/20 this year to 4/2 because Obama's been a BIG ZERO on cannabis reform," the D.C. Cannabis Campaign said in a statement. (AP Photo)

Pot activists get blunt with Obama

Anna Giaritelli · April 1, 2016 10:58 pm

White House blames glitch for ‘Islamist terrorist’ omission

Becket Adams · April 1, 2016 8:50 pm

The White House noted that since the 2014 summit, the U.S. has helped China, Jamaica, Kazakhstan and Russia convert reactors away from highly enriched uranium. (AP Photo)

Obama hails three new countries free of weapons-grade nuke material

Nicole Duran · April 1, 2016 8:09 pm

The Aliso Canyon gas storage facility was capped earlier this year after a gas utility struggled for months to close the leak that forced nearby residents to evacuate. (Dean Musgrove/Los Angeles Daily News via AP, Pool, File)

Energy and Environment

White House launches probe into Calif. gas leak

John Siciliano · April 1, 2016 7:46 pm

"The value of transparency has been highlighted by the United States throughout the Nuclear Security Summit process." said President Obama. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Obama shares size of U.S. nuclear stockpile with the world

Nicole Duran · April 1, 2016 7:17 pm