Tag: Barack Obama

White House welcomes Pope Francis’ ‘moral authority’

Nicole Duran · September 18, 2015 4:01 am

President Obama would like to lift all trade and travel restrictions to Cuba, but only Congress can fully eliminate the embargo, so the administration is using its executive authority to expand export exceptions. (AP)

Obama regs chip away at Cuba embargo

Susan Crabtree · September 18, 2015 2:35 am

President Obama made an unscheduled stop State Department Thursday evening for a private victory reception on the Iran deal held by Secretary of State John Kerry for all the agency staff involved in the negotiations. (AP Photo)

Obama celebrates Iran deal at State Department

Susan Crabtree · September 18, 2015 12:36 am

MSNBC: Too partisan even for a former senior adviser to Obama

Becket Adams · September 17, 2015 11:14 pm

Bikramjit Singh, nine, center, and his sister Parneet Kaur, 11, immigrants from India, joined more than a dozen other young people who took an oath of citizenship, Thursday, July 2, 2015, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo)Â

Obama lets people use credit cards to pay citizenship fees

Pete Kasperowicz · September 17, 2015 8:16 pm

His administration must submit a plan and cost estimates for doing so to Capitol Hill early next year. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)

National Security

White House blames Congress for Obama’s inability to close Gitmo

Nicole Duran · September 17, 2015 6:29 pm

The three friends from California, along with a 62-year-old British man, wrestled with the gunman and eventually subdued him until police boarded the train and took him away. (AP Photo)Â

Obama praises Californians for thwarting Paris terror attack

Nicole Duran · September 17, 2015 5:50 pm

President Obamatold supporters to elect more Democrats to Congress who "won't play politics with people's lives."Â (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama uses government shutdown threat to raise cash

Susan Crabtree · September 17, 2015 5:02 pm

"I defunded planned Parenthood Parenthood as governor of New Jersey," Chris Christie said. John Kasich said he supports defunding Planned Parenthood. (AP Photo)Â

Candidates rush to claim they defunded Planned Parenthood

Robert King · September 17, 2015 1:44 am

President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that he would veto a House bill that would defund Planned Parenthood.Â (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama would veto Planned Parenthood bills

Robert King · September 17, 2015 1:02 am

Following policy lunches in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, Mitch McConnell told reporters, "I support eliminating the oil export ban." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

McConnell says he supports lifting ban on oil exports

Kyle Feldscher · September 16, 2015 11:19 pm

Obama Calls Jerry Brown

Daniel Halper · September 16, 2015 10:34 pm