“The President congratulates the Israeli people, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the new governing coalition on the formation of Israel’s new government,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest released in a statement. “President Obama looks forward to working with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his new government.”
While he might not be on the campaign trail, Obama is taking every opportunity this year to see places that he may have missed – visiting cities in red states such as Birmingham, Alabama; Lawrence, Kansas; Boise, Idaho; and Salt Lake City, Utah.
WASHINGTON (AP) — During a festive Cinco de Mayo celebration at the White House, President Barack Obama couldn’t help but reflect on the swings that have confronted his attempts to tackle immigration. “I just want to remind everybody that progress is not always a straight line,” he said.
Tuesday at the White House daily briefing, White House correspondent and political analyst for The Daily Banter, liberal commentator Tommy Christopher, asked how the White House can justify calling the estimated 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers serving in the United
President Obama said that “too often we ignore” “pockets of poverty, lack of opportunity, lack of education” on Monday’s “Late Show” on CBS. Obama said, “it’s important that now that charges have been brought in Baltimore, that we let due
Monday at Lehman College in the Bronx at an event for My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, President Barack Obama said, “In too many places in this country, black boys and black men, Latino boys and Latino men — they experience being treated differently
A political fundraiser for President Obama, set to take place in Manhattan Monday evening, may inconvenience fashionistas heading to the annual Costume Institute Gala, which is being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, according to The New York Post.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson told a roomful of conservatives and libertarians on Friday that the Obama administration is the most controlling and least transparent administration in decades.
Columnist Pat Buchanan praised President Obama’s speech after the riots in Baltimore, but said that the charges brought against six police officers in Freddie Gray’s death were “overdone” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan said, “after the riot started, the president
President Obama said that his free community college program is a way to show “we believe in opportunity for all” during Saturday’s weekly address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi everybody. I’m speaking with you from the DC Public Library in Anacostia,
Tufts University History professor Peniel Joseph declared that President Obama “has a lot of soul-searching to do” because he won’t allow Jesse Jackson into the White House on Thurday’s “HuffPost Live.” Joseph began by talking about Erin Burnett’s interview with Baltimore
Much of the black community in America is dying, which is the “death,” and lacking true leadership and solutions across a wide range of issues, which is the “dearth.”
President Obama said that the officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death are “are also entitled to due process and rule of law” and that “it is my practice not to comment on the legal processes involved. That would not be
The recent January drone strike on a compound in Syria that killed an American al-Qaeda leader, Ahmed Farouq, with dual Pakistani citizenship, regrettably also killed an American aid worker, Warren Weinstein, who was being held hostage as well as an Italian aid worker, Giovanni LaPorto.
The White House, Muqtada al-Sadr, a powerful Iraqi Shiite Cleric, and the Iraqi government have come out against a proposed U.S defense bill that authorizes sending arms and funds directly to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Sunni tribal fighters in Iraq.
Thursday at The White House press briefing, ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl questioned Obama press secretary Josh Earnest over the administration’s refusal to condemn Hillary Clinton over not complying with the disclosure agreement she had with them to report all foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of state.
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had some harsh criticism of Barack Obama on Wednesday, accusing him of deliberately inflaming racial tensions as a way of governing.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) blasted “failed liberal government policies” for miring people in cities like Baltimore in “generational poverty” and argued that change in Baltimore “needs to start in the politics, the failed liberal Democrat policies” on Wednesday’s
WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. and Afghan governments lack accurate data on the Afghan security forces’s manpower, capability, and payroll, making it difficult to assess Afghanistan’s ability to fight the Taliban and prevent other terrorist groups from using the country to stage new attacks, according to a specially-appointed congressional watchdog agency.
MSNBC host Alex Wagner said that President Obama, who she pointed out is “half-white,” is “doubling down” on calling rioters in Baltimore thugs on Wednesday’s “NOW.” Wager asked Salon contributor Brittney Cooper, “you bring up this point in your writing today
While details remain sketchy about the incident, Iranian patrol craft forcibly stopped and boarded a merchant ship under flag of the Marshall Islands. The incident raises two questions—what triggered it and what, if any, responsibility the U.S. may have, under its treaty with the Marshall Islands, to respond to this act of Iranian aggression.
A video has surfaced on Facebook of a group of about 12 Cuban refugees halfway through their voyage to Miami on a tiny motorboat, displaying their rudimentary navigation technology and hoping to make it ashore in America “with luck.”
President Obama wants the country to focus on urban problems even after the Baltimore riots end. “People have a tendency, once the fires are out … to go back and focus on whatever reality TV thing is going on,” he said. “We’ve got to make sure that we don’t brush this aside after the crisis is past.”
Iranian “cultural centers,” established across Latin America to enhance the Shiite country’s influence in the region, have proliferated in the last three years, while the Obama administration has been trying to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran.
Tuesday on Bloomberg Politics “With All Due Respect,” hosts Mark Halperin and John Heilemann agreed in light of the many riots resulting from a string of controversies over deaths caused by law enforcement in communities of color, President Barack Obama
