Tag: Barack Obama

Watch: Crowd ignores Obama to jeer at Trump supporter

Susan Crabtree · November 4, 2016 8:37 pm

The announcement by the White House brings President Obama's 2016 total to 688, the most commutations ever granted by a president in a single year. (AP Photo)

Obama commutes sentences for 72 more inmates

Susan Crabtree · November 4, 2016 5:48 pm

A group of Republican lawmakers warned Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday that President Obama's climate goals may not survive the next administration, one day before the Paris climate change deal goes into effect. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Energy and Environment

GOP to Kerry: Climate deal can be reversed

John Siciliano · November 3, 2016 11:55 pm

"Our relations with Iran have not yet returned to normal, and the process of implementing the agreements with Iran, dated Jan. 19, 1981, is still under way," Obama wrote. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Obama: US relations with Iran still not normal despite nuke deal

Nicole Duran · November 3, 2016 8:53 pm

President Obama on Thursday rejected the idea that Donald Trump will help working people, and said everything in Trump's history shows that he won't. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Obama: Trump won’t help you

Nicole Duran · November 3, 2016 8:43 pm

Obama Claims Nothing GOP Predicted about Obamacare ‘Has Happened’

Mark Hemingway · November 3, 2016 8:42 pm

"The president believes that a well-functioning transportation infrastructure is important for the capital region," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.

Obama might take the Metro next year

Nicole Duran · November 3, 2016 7:56 pm

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will join former President Bill Clinton to campaign with Hillary Clinton at her final rally before Election Day in Philadelphia on Monday night. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obamas to campaign with Clintons at final rally before Election Day

Ryan Lovelace · November 3, 2016 6:40 pm

"This isn't a joke, this isn't 'Survivor,' this isn't 'The Bachelorette,'" President Obama said. "This counts." (AP Photo)

Obama: ‘This isn’t a joke, this isn’t Survivor’

Susan Crabtree · November 3, 2016 4:04 pm

The White House said the Federal Highway Administration would create 48 alternative fuel corridors that will include infrastructure for charging electric vehicles. (Photo by John Amis/Invision for NRG/AP Images)

Energy and Environment

Obama to boost number of electric car charging stations

Kyle Feldscher · November 3, 2016 2:36 pm

President Barack Obama is seen backstage as he waits to be introduced in Chapel Hill, N.C., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. Obama is in North Carolina to help turn out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with a rally in Chapel Hill. It's the first of two visits Obama has planned this week to North Carolina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Secrets

It begins: #PardonHillary vs. #IndictHillary

Paul Bedard · November 3, 2016 2:19 pm

After the Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years by beating Cleveland in Game 7 by a score of 8-7, the president extended an invitation on Twitter. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Obama invites World Series champion Chicago Cubs to the White House

Ryan Lovelace · November 3, 2016 1:00 pm