Tag: Barack Obama

The White House warned that President Obama would veto bills set to pass the House that threaten his climate agenda. (Getty File Photo)

Energy and Environment

White House threatens to veto bills targetting EPA and climate rules

John Siciliano · June 24, 2015 2:11 am

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, faced a media barrage afterÂ he reversed course on his previous support for a bill that would grant President Obama "Fast Track" authority to approve major international trade bill.Â (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Little love in media for Cruz’s trade ‘flip flop’

Becket Adams · June 24, 2015 12:59 am

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Iran’s agenda?

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2015 10:00 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, before the House Armed Services Committeehearing on the U.S. policy and strategy in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Ashton Carter: ‘Not confident’ Obama can close Gitmo

Kelly Cohen · June 23, 2015 5:55 pm

New WH hostage plan is ‘pathetic,’ says chief GOP critic

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 5:34 pm

It's that close supervision, he said, that led to most air sorties coming back without dropping any bombs.Â (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Thornberry: Obama defense veto threat hurts U.S. efforts abroad

Charles Hoskinson · June 23, 2015 3:32 pm

National Security

President’s National Security Council Is Downsizing

Jeryl Bier · June 23, 2015 12:00 pm

"The Koran teaches us that God's children tread gently on the earth," he said. "â¦We affirm that whatever our faith, we are one family." (AP)

Obama talks religious freedom, Charleston slayings at Iftar dinner

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 8:37 am

A Secret Service agent covers up from the wind as Marine One lands in New York City with President Barack Obama. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Exclusive: Secret Service officer loses his gun outside girlfriend’s apartment

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 4:01 am

"This year, more than half of our states guarantee their workers a wage higher than the federal minimum, but despite this progress we still have work to do," Obama said in a statement. (Getty)

Obama hails Rhode Island’s minimum wage hike

Susan Crabtree · June 23, 2015 1:25 am

Beltway Confidential

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber: ‘Pharma is going to be a huge winner from this bill’

Timothy P. Carney · June 22, 2015 10:41 pm

President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Biden, pauses while speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2015, on the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., prior to his departure to Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama to deliver eulogy for slain Charleston church reverend

Kelly Cohen · June 22, 2015 8:50 pm