Tag: Barack Obama

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been joined by other top conservative lawmakers in saying they will not consider a nominee until after a new president is in the White House next year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Poll: Most oppose GOP effort to block Supreme Court nominee

Kelly Cohen · March 9, 2016 12:53 pm

FILE PHOTO - U.S. Mint Silver Dollar, left, and a Liberty Dollar Coin, right. (AP Photo/Alan Marler)

Dollar coin: Change that could help us achieve a “Moonshot”

jim-kolbe, reps-tim · March 9, 2016 12:00 pm

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said climate change is one of the issues "important to [President Obama] and to me." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Trudeau to talk up climate change

John Siciliano · March 9, 2016 5:01 am

"[T]he continuing threat of removal and other uncertainties facing undocumented individuals weaken our economy," read the brief. (AP Photo/Manu Fernadez)

Mark Zuckerberg backs Obama on amnesty

Anna Giaritelli · March 9, 2016 2:21 am

At 54 1/2 years old, the president still has 20/20 vision, no heart problems and healthy cholesterol levels. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama aces his last White House physical

Nicole Duran · March 9, 2016 1:56 am

Despite the White House effort to downplay the report, it will likely give more fodder for GOP critics of President Obama's plan to release detainees to countries who agree to take them, and eventually shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

WH brags: Only 5 percent of Gitmo detainees return to terrorism

Susan Crabtree · March 8, 2016 9:51 pm

The Obama administration sent $500 million to the Green Climate Fund to help poor countries cope with climate change. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Energy and Environment

Obama cuts first check under climate deal

John Siciliano · March 8, 2016 8:17 pm

Energy and Environment

Greens to GOP: Confirm Supreme Court nominee to preserve environment

Kyle Feldscher · March 8, 2016 6:50 pm

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his staff told the press first that he was cancelling a meeting with President Obama, instead of telling the White House first. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

White House scolds Netanyahu over canceled trip

Susan Crabtree · March 8, 2016 6:48 pm

The first lady will travel to California for the funeral Friday at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Michelle Obama to attend Nancy Reagan’s funeral

Susan Crabtree · March 8, 2016 1:26 am

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's focus on Sen. Chuck Grassley partly reflects an attempt to pick off what has been regarded as a safe Republican seat. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Reid accuses Grassley of wanting to change the Constitution

Joel Gehrke · March 7, 2016 11:29 pm

"He referred to my hands -- if they are small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem." (AP File Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Former Obama aide starts ‘Trump Has Tiny Hands’ PAC

Anna Giaritelli · March 7, 2016 9:51 pm