Tag: Barack Obama

FILE - This May 2, 2011 file photo shows attorney Orly Taitz speaking to the media outside the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Calif., challenging Barack Obama's birth certificate. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)

Beltway Confidential

Many of Trump’s worst enemies have a lot in common with Obama-era ‘birthers’

Charlotte Hays · December 13, 2017 8:24 pm

The USA Today editorial board said President Trump hit "a new low" with his tweet Tuesday morning saying Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

USA Today: Trump is ‘not fit to clean the toilets’ at Obama’s presidential library

Caitlin Yilek · December 13, 2017 3:23 am

The U.S. Forest Service has recommended lifting the mining ban around the Grand Canyon. (AP Photo/Rick Hossman,File)

Energy and Environment

Appeals court keeps Obama ban on uranium mining around Grand Canyon

Josh Siegel · December 12, 2017 8:04 pm

The final hours before the Alabama special election saw dueling robocalls from President Trump and former President Barack Obama. (AP Photos)

Trump, Obama weigh in as Roy Moore, Doug Jones fight to the finish in Alabama

W. James Antle III · December 12, 2017 5:01 am

Wyoming chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee said the Obama administration misled him about the company's ability to export nuclear fuel. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Energy and Environment

John Barrasso probes uranium exports by US firm owned by Russia

John Siciliano · December 12, 2017 12:16 am

Where Is Roy Moore? Mostly Not on the Campaign Trail.

Andrew Egger · December 11, 2017 10:55 pm

Michelle Obama's first conversation with Richard Branson since her husband's presidency ended was about how liberated she felt after leaving the White House, according to Branson's new autobiography. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Obamas urge customers to sign up for Obamacare in final days of open enrollment

Kimberly Leonard · December 11, 2017 9:17 pm

A judge ruled that transgender people will be allowed to join the military starting Jan. 1. The ruling Monday was another legal setback for President Trump's effort to ban transgender troops and roll back the open service policy enacted by the Obama administration. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

National Security

Transgender people can join the military Jan. 1 after court strikes down Trump’s request

Travis J. Tritten · December 11, 2017 6:13 pm

Celebrity chef Mario Batali cooked former President Obama's final state dinner at the White House in October 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Celebrity chef Mario Batali accused of sexual misconduct by four women

Caitlin Yilek · December 11, 2017 4:38 pm

Obama tells Alabama voters to rebuff Roy Moore: Report

Caitlin Yilek · December 11, 2017 2:11 pm

Apprentice Ryan Buzzy, right, works with Skip Johnson, a trainer for the Stihl Inc. apprenticeship program, on a metalworking lathe in their training area at the Stihl Inc. manufacturing facility in Virginia Beach, Va., on May 25. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Pushed by Trump, states look to promote apprenticeships

Anna Giaritelli · December 11, 2017 5:01 am

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses the crowd after being introduced by Doug Manchester, left, at a campaign rally for Donald Trump on May 27, 2016, in San Diego. Trump named Manchester, a California hotelier, as his ambassador to the Bahamas in May. (John Gastaldo/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Trump carries on tradition of putting campaign donors in embassies

Sarah Bedford · December 11, 2017 5:01 am