Tag: Barack Obama

"The No. 1 question I'm getting" when abroad and when speaking to world leaders, is "what is happening in America, about our politics?" said President Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: ‘Vulgar’ Republican speech ‘tarnishes the American brand’

Nicole Duran · March 29, 2016 1:40 am

The voting public would be "better served if billions in free media came with serious accountability," said President Obama. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: Trump’s free media lets him avoid ‘serious accountability’

Pete Kasperowicz · March 29, 2016 1:04 am

The "seriousness with which we take our treaty commitments to Japan and to South Korea" is unchanged, Kirby said Monday. (Washington Examiner - FILE/Graeme Jennings)

Obama meeting with South Korean, Japanese leaders to talk nukes

Nicole Duran · March 28, 2016 10:48 pm

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Obama refused the gesture because the re-established relationship with Raul Castro hasn't thawed enough yet. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House explains awkward Obama, Castro handshake

Nicole Duran · March 28, 2016 8:42 pm

"There was a hullabaloo in the Republican Party" about whether the State Department would rule Islamic State's actions genocide, said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House says GOP disingenuous on Islamic State genocide

Nicole Duran · March 28, 2016 7:33 pm

Mainstream Scream: ABC ‘This Week’ guest hits Trump’s ‘unsagacity’ on foreign affairs

Paul Bedard · March 28, 2016 6:49 pm

"Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, R&B, rock and roll -- the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope," Obama said of his admiration of Franklin.

Obama: ‘American history wells up when Aretha sings’

Joshua Axelrod · March 28, 2016 5:27 pm

Watch: Obama, Easter Bunny welcome kids to WH Easter Egg Roll

Pete Kasperowicz · March 28, 2016 3:51 pm

Cuba's Fidel Castro was not pleased that President Obama met with current Cuban President Raul Castro on his visit, but not him. (AP Photo/Alex Castro, File)

Fidel Castro: Obama should’ve met with me

Kelly Cohen · March 28, 2016 1:39 pm

"I'm shocked by [John Kerry], and I am shocked that he'd sign something like the Iran deal ... a horrible, horrible, embarrassing deal," Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump responds to Kerry: Iran deal is ’embarrassing’

Al Weaver · March 28, 2016 12:37 pm

Obama consoles parents of Brussels bombing victims

Curt Mills · March 27, 2016 9:44 pm

National Security

Senator blames Obama for rise of the Islamic State

Kelly Cohen · March 27, 2016 8:07 pm