Tag: Barack Obama

In this May 26, 2011, file photo, a motorcyclist rides between lanes as traffic backs up on U.S. Highway 101 in Mill Valley, Calif.

Energy and Environment

Trump administration pushes to relax fuel rules even as it predicts the Earth will get warmer

Josh Siegel · September 28, 2018 5:27 pm

National Security

John Kerry accuses Trump team of ‘interfering’ with the Obama administration before the inauguration

Daniel Chaitin · September 28, 2018 1:15 am

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes downplayed polls showing a majority of Americans oppose a military attack and weak support in Congress.

Beltway Confidential

Obama alum Ben Rhodes still thinks leadership is a popularity contest

Tom Rogan · September 25, 2018 7:57 pm

President Trump walks out of the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sept. 20, 2018.

New Trump rule isn’t about saving taxpayer money — it’s about keeping legal immigrants out

David Bier · September 24, 2018 11:07 pm

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., speaks at the 2018 Values Voter Summit in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018.

Mark Meadows: DOJ transparency under Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein just as bad as it was under Obama

Caitlin Yilek · September 24, 2018 5:56 pm

Sandwich chain, whose owner took fire for Trump meeting, to close all stores

Caitlin Yilek · September 21, 2018 9:33 pm

Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, attends a ceremony honoring the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2018, in New York.

Nikki Haley: John Kerry’s meetings with Iranians ‘hurtful to America’

Naomi Lim · September 21, 2018 12:21 am

Former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago.

Potential deal for Obama Center in Chicago: 99-year land agreement for $10

Caitlin Yilek · September 19, 2018 3:40 pm

Former President Barack Obama and President Trump.

Credit Trump, not Obama, for economic boom, says Reagan adviser

Pete Kasperowicz · September 18, 2018 1:12 pm

FILE - In this April 16, 2010 file photo, steam rises from towers at an Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. Exxon says the energy renaissance in the U.S. will continue and predicts that North America will become a net exporter of oil and gas by the middle of the next decade. The oil and gas giantâs latest long-term energy outlook, released Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, says the rapid growth of production in the U.S., Canada along with improved energy efficiency will lead to more oil and gas being sent overseas.

Beltway Confidential

Slew of environmental lawsuits aren’t about climate change, they’re about attacking energy companies

Kevin Mooney · September 17, 2018 8:34 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren hugs her grandson, Atticus Mann Tyagi, who introduced her to speak at the 2018 Massachusetts Democratic Party Convention, June 1, 2018, in Worcester, Mass.

Elizabeth Warren boosted charitable giving a year before running for re-election

Naomi Lim · September 17, 2018 6:52 pm

President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, June 20, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

Carly Fiorina: It’s never as easy as the politicians think it is

Carly Fiorina · September 17, 2018 4:00 am