“You don’t need to be filming this, put it down, you’re not reporting,” President Obama told reporters he met at a tea shop. The shooter then ended the broadcast of his video, but not before hundreds of viewers had tuned in to watch the president.
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.
As I do every morning, I was flipping through the news shows when I came across a CNN panel advertised as objective journalism. Nevertheless, The Washington Post’s Nia-Malika Henderson and Errol Lewis never once brought up the fact that Baltimore
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.”
During his press conference today, President Obama addressed the violence in Baltimore, claiming his political agenda would help solve some of the problems found in impoverished urban communities, such as the one where the violence occurred.
“Today is also a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan, like karate, karaoke, manga, and anime and of course emojis,” President Obama said as the audience laughed.
As the rioting grew fiercer in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddy Gray on Monday, the Obama administration issued statements vowing to end the violence.
Ted Cruz is taking a strong stand on Cuba, both in his presidential campaign and in his day job as a senator. He comes by his position naturally.
ESPN “First Take” co-host Stephen A. Smith speculated Friday on ESPN2’s “First Take” why New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady did not make the trip to the White House with the rest of the Patriots to have their Super Bowl Championship
This week the world is marking the gruesome 100th anniversary of events that took lives of some 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians. The Ottoman Empire was falling apart, fighting as one of the Axis powers in WW1, fearful of its Christian minorities and their possibly joining the Allied effort led by Czarist Russia to liberate them.
It’s Accountability Theater, and we get a fresh performance every time scandals explode in the Obama Administration, because they know the public has a short attention span, and their faithful media has an even shorter one.
A Buzzfeed report claims Russian President Vladimir Putin once recommended action movie star Steven Seagal as an official intermediary between himself and President Obama, following years of public friendship between Seagal and the Russian head of state.
As if on safari, the hunters proudly display their dead prey. But the circa 1915 photograph depicts an undeniable horror. The hunters flank a dozen or so human bodies, laid out upon a dirt mound. The distinctive hunters’ uniforms identify them as Turkish soldiers of the Ottoman Empire; their victims are Armenian Christians.
The Republican presidential contenders in the U.S. Senate were mostly united against the confirmation of Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s nominee to succeed Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General.
President Obama hosted the New England Patriots in a South Lawn ceremony this afternoon, recognizing their Super Bowl win earlier this year. But quarterback Tom Brady declined attending the ceremony, according to multiple Boston media outlets this morning, citing a family obligation.
President Obama acknowledged the information released by his administration this morning that an American counterterrorism operation against Al-Qaeda mistakenly killed two innocent hostages. Then he departed without answering questions.
On the eve of the commemoration of the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish professor is suggesting that Turkish forces had nothing to do with the slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians, and that the Armenians disguised themselves as Turks to kill their own people.
In 2006, then-Senator Barack Obama wrote a letter to Secretary of State Condi Rice urging her to acknowledge historical facts and use the word “genocide” to describe the massacre of 1.5 million Armenian Christians. As President, Obama has never used the word, despite a written promise to do so.
During a presidential trip to the Everglades, President Obama explained that it was time for Americans to stop denying climate change.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner President Barack Obama has become the largest international arms dealer since the end of WWII, according research done is a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). With more than $160 billion in arms sales during his first five years as President, Obama has outpaced the former leader in this category, President Richard M. Nixon.
During an interview on Michael Medved’s radio show on Tuesday, Bush heaped praise upon the National Security Agency’s harvesting of cell phone metadata on all Americans, crediting President Obama with expanding the program and maintaining it against fierce criticism from both Left and Right.
President Obama hosted a Rose Garden reception for members of Congress at the White House, praising leaders of both parties for passing a permanent solution to the “Doc Fix” for Medicare.
President Obama is defending his trade deal from critics such as Elizabeth Warren, saying it would help the middle class, claiming that it was all part of his administrations effort for “middle class” based economics.
Eli Lake at Bloomberg View reports that President Obama’s administration has confirmed that Iran is “two to three months” away from developing a nuclear weapon, contradicting the White House’s rebuttal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that Iran is months away from the breakout.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, on a visit to a Muslim center in Maryland, claimed that President Barack Obama had agreed to the construction of a Turkish-funded mosque in the state, and may even attend the opening himself. The White House has denied that any such opening is on the President’s schedule.
