Tag: Barack Obama

White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz gives a press briefing to the media at the Edgartown School on August 22, 2014 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.(Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)

White House downplays top aides’ notes to Clinton on private email

Susan Crabtree · July 2, 2015 8:08 pm

President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, in La Crosse, Wis., Thursday, July 2, 2015, about the economy and to promote a proposed Labor Department rule that would make more workers eligible for overtime. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Wisconsin man charged after threatening to kill Obama

Nicole Duran · July 2, 2015 7:44 pm

Cigar lover Paul Clarke samples a Havana cigar in Turmeau's, Liverpool's last remaining tobacconist shop on December 9, 2008, in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Can you buy Cuban cigars now?

Pete Kasperowicz · July 2, 2015 5:45 pm

In this Tuesday, June 30, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a house party in Bedford, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)

Trump lashes out at ‘liberal mainstream media’ over immigrant remark

Eddie Scarry · July 2, 2015 4:21 pm

"We're kind of right in the center of his legislative agenda," Rep. Ron Kind said about Wisconsin's 10 members of Congress. "As a delegation, we're strategically placed." (AP Photo)Â

Wisconsin lawmakers central to Obama’s late-term agenda

Nicole Duran · July 2, 2015 3:25 pm

Obama on opening of Cuban embassy: ‘This is what change looks like’

Susan Crabtree · July 2, 2015 6:33 am

The Cuban Interests Section, which serves as the de facto diplomatic mission of Cuba to the United States, is seen in Washington, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the U.S. and Cuba will reopen their embassies in Havana and Washington, heralding a "new chapter" in relations after a half-century of hostility. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama ready to fight over U.S. ambassador to Cuba

Susan Crabtree · July 2, 2015 4:01 am

President Barack Obama reacts as he is acknowledged by Kelly Bryant on stage at Taylor Stratton Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, July 1, 2015, where he talked about the Affordable Care Act. The president said he wants to refocus on improving health care quality, expanding access and rooting out waste now that the Supreme Court has upheld a key element of his health care law. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama on Obamacare: ‘We still have to sign a bunch of people up’

Nicole Duran · July 1, 2015 10:39 pm

"No anticipation and no plan with respect to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station," DefSec Ashton Carter said at a press conference Wednesday. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

National Security

Defense secretary: ‘No plan’ to give Gitmo back to Cuba

Tara Copp · July 1, 2015 7:32 pm

National Security

Castro says Cuba suddenly ‘inspired’ by concept of human rights

Pete Kasperowicz · July 1, 2015 6:29 pm

National Security

Obama on his historic Cuba decision: ‘This is what change looks like’

Nicole Duran · July 1, 2015 5:48 pm

President Obama signs the Medicare Access CHIP Reauthorization Act 2015 on April 16, 2015 in Washington. (Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images)

Choke: 1,568 new regs, 38,000 Federal Register pages already this year

Paul Bedard · July 1, 2015 4:12 pm