
Vice President Joe Biden tells a group of firefighters visiting the White House that the dramatic increase of forest fires in the United States was likely a result of climate change – even though he couldn’t prove it.
by Charlie Spiering9 Nov 2015, 12:20 PM PST0

President Barack Obama is offering himself as a reward to the city that signs up the highest percentage of enrollees in his signature healthcare reform during open enrollment season.
by Dr. Susan Berry9 Nov 2015, 11:53 AM PST0

Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said the media vetting of Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson was “appropriate” and “good for our democracy.” “This process is good for our democracy,” Earnest said to a
by Pam Key9 Nov 2015, 11:20 AM PST0

The Obama administration is praising protesters who successfully forced University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe to announce his resignation.
by Charlie Spiering9 Nov 2015, 10:54 AM PST0

“Most of all, other than squirrels I just look at the trees, enjoy the air,” Obama explains in the video, describing his backyard as a National Park. Obama reminds the camera that he is preparing a dramatic push on climate change during a summit on the issue in Paris.
by Charlie Spiering9 Nov 2015, 9:56 AM PST0

The war against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has reportedly presented an old gun shop in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil with opportunities for new streams of revenue.
by Edwin Mora9 Nov 2015, 9:50 AM PST0

“It’s no secret the Prime Minister and I have had a strong disagreement on this narrow issue, but we don’t have a disagreement on the need to making sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon and we don’t have a disagreement about us blunting destabilizing activities in Iran that may be taking place,” Obama said to reporters during the meeting in the Oval Office of the White House.
by Charlie Spiering9 Nov 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, while addressing the Reagan National Defense Forum, said the United States needs “much more than airstrikes” to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.
by Edwin Mora9 Nov 2015, 7:12 AM PST0

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said President Barack Obama’s decision to send 50 Special Operations troops into Syria is not a strategy that will work long-term. Gillibrand said ISIS taking down a passenger plane with
by Pam Key8 Nov 2015, 11:38 AM PST0

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd detailed how poorly Democrats have fared in elections during the Barack Obama’s presidency. Todd said, “It is no secret that Democratic candidates across the country have struggled at the polls since President Obama
by Pam Key8 Nov 2015, 10:16 AM PST0

Colin Jost said that President Obama can’t handle Vladimir Putin or China and joked about GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson during the “Weekend Update” segment on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Jost, in reference to President Obama’s comments that Republican
by Ian Hanchett7 Nov 2015, 10:20 PM PST0

On Saturday, President Obama used his Weekly Address on Saturday to promote enrollment in health insurance under the Affordable Car Act, during which he said the law is “certainly not the myths and scare tactics that the cynics have peddled
by Ian Hanchett7 Nov 2015, 7:30 AM PST0

The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was treating 20 wounded Taliban members when it was bombed last month by U.S. military aircraft, according an internal review of the attack.
by Edwin Mora6 Nov 2015, 3:36 PM PST0

With only one year left in President Obama’s tenure, the White House continues to hint at the possibility that the President may use his executive powers to unilaterally shut down Guantánamo Bay prison without the consent of Congress.
by Jordan Schachtel6 Nov 2015, 12:29 PM PST0

President Obama announced his long-awaited official decision to block the Keystone XL pipeline, by arguing that he project would undercut America’s leadership to prevent climate change.
by Charlie Spiering6 Nov 2015, 9:31 AM PST0

In an interview to promote his latest album, “MMM,” Forbes’s wealthiest hip-hop artist Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs explained his deep frustrations with President Obama, who Combs claims needs to “Unapologetically spend billions of dollars to uplift black communities.”
by Jerome Hudson5 Nov 2015, 6:55 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) launched a relatively rare attack behind Kurdish lines in northern Iraq, briefly occupying a local government compound located in the vicinity of several oil-producing fields.
by Edwin Mora5 Nov 2015, 5:40 PM PST0

Judicial Watch has sued the Obama administration for documents related to its recent campaign urging permanent residents to become naturalized U.S. citizens, the conservative government accountability group announced Thursday.
by Caroline May5 Nov 2015, 2:55 PM PST0

Thursday at the 2015 White House Tribal Nations Conference, President Barack Obama praised Adidas for working with schools to remove Native American mascots and urged them to do the same for the Redskins. Remarks as follows: In terms of eliminating
by Pam Key5 Nov 2015, 2:38 PM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly 9 out of 10 airstrikes launched by the Russian military in Syria have hit so-called moderate rebels opposed to the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, killing civilians as well as destroying hospitals and shelters in the process, a senior U.S. State Department official told lawmakers.
by Edwin Mora5 Nov 2015, 2:35 PM PST0

In a rare exercise of foreign policy backbone, President Obama exhibited Reaganesque-like leadership against China last month—or did he?
by James Zumwalt5 Nov 2015, 11:39 AM PST0

The Obama administration is sending a new message to people on the Obamacare e-mail list. Sign up for health insurance by December 15 or face big fines.
by Charlie Spiering5 Nov 2015, 11:26 AM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Arab allies have discussed deploying their own ground forces to Syria to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), a senior U.S. State Department official told the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
by Edwin Mora5 Nov 2015, 10:11 AM PST0

On Wednesday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) told Yahoo News that President Barack Obama still has no clear strategy in Syria despite the 50 special forces U.S troops he announced last week he is sending to Syria.
by Pam Key5 Nov 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

The Obama administration appears open to having the president use his executive authority to try to close the terrorist detainee facility in Guantanamo Bay, warning Congress to stop blocking his desire to close the facility.
by Charlie Spiering4 Nov 2015, 11:53 AM PST0