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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The White House has delayed executive amnesty until after the elections and set another deadline for unilateral action before the end of the year, leaving Congress with the ability to revive the immigration reform debate after the

While he was in New York over Labor Day Weekend to fund-raise and attend a high profile wedding, the president was turned down at several elite golf courses.  According to NBC 4 New York, the Trump National Golf Club, the

At the White House press briefing room, colleagues of ABC News reporter Ann Compton toasted her last day at the White House with champagne and rum cake after the daily press briefing on Tuesday afternoon. During the celebration, White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Republican says President Barack Obama should seek congressional approval for whatever he decides to do against Islamic State militants. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters Tuesday that seeking congressional approval would be good

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest suggested that Americans should not be concerned about ISIL attacking the United States, suggesting that they trust President Obama to keep them safe. Earnest insisted that Obama was “clear-eyed” about the threat posed by

John McTiernan, director of action classics like “Die Hard” and “The Hunt For Red October,” was just released from prison in February after serving 10 months for lying to the FBI. After receiving a career award at the Deauville film

Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said if members of Congress are confused even after administrations consultations, by President Barack Obama’s strategy to dismantle and defeat ISIS then we “strongly encourage them to tune into

On Tuesday’s “Good Morning America” on ABC, host George Stephanopoulos acknowledged that President Barack Obama is facing public opinion obstacles with his foreign policy, in particular regarding the ISIS threat in northern Iraq. “The president is not prepared to announce he

Barak Barfi, a spokesman for the family of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff, accused the Obama administration of using Sotloff and fellow journalist James Foley as “pawns,” and reported that some of the “moderate” Syrian rebels sold Sotloff to ISIS on

The White House may be in for another surprise in November. On Monday, the White House said that President Barack Obama decided to enact executive amnesty for potentially millions of illegal immigrants after the midterm elections because he felt that

Monday at the press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest tried several times to explain to frustrated reporters why President Barack Obama is unwilling to fight ISIS is Syria opting instead to confront ISIS with an air campaign in

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked about the firing of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice on Monday after a video tape was released by TMZ showing him knocking out his then-fiancée. Earnest said that as a sports

In an interview with Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press, President Obama admitted the surge of unaccompanied minors at the border had forced him to delay his executive action on immigration. After the election he’ll try to take credit

Monday at the press briefing, CBS’s chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett asked press secretary Josh Earnest how President Barack Obama’s delay on his executive order to grant amnesty to upwards of 5 million illegal immigrants already living in the

Immigration activists seething at President Obama for declining to unilaterally extend amnesty to millions of illegal aliens until after the November elections are issuing dire predictions of the impact of his inaction. “To wait nine more weeks means the President

The immigrant community is “disappointed” and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus was not given advanced notice that the White House would delay executive action on immigration, California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez said Monday. “We should be getting it done now instead of after the

White House Domestic Policy Director Cecilia Muñoz promised that President Barack Obama will act on immigration “by the end of the year.” “The most important thing is that he [Obama] does intend to act, and he’ll do it by the

AUSTIN, Texas — After months of threatening to enact immigration reform on his own via executive order, President Barack Obama announced he had changed his mind on the issue in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press”

On “Fox News Sunday,” The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward described what he called “one of the untold stories,” in Washington D.C., which is the “alienation between Obama and Senate Democrats” because according to Woodward “he is not engaged” and refuses

California’s immigration activists are furious at President Barack Obama’s recent decision to postpone taking executive action to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, breaking a promise to do so by summer’s end. Los Angeles CBS News affiliate KCAL 9

This article originally appeared in the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The agreement signed last year by the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs was explicit: For $5 million, Norway’s partner in Washington would push top officials at the White House, at the

In response to President Obama’s announcement that he’ll wait until after the election for executive amnesty, Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) ramped up the pressure yet again on Democrats in the U.S. Senate.  Sessions says that

As the Ebola outbreak continues to grow in Africa, President Obama is now asking for federal funds to fight the virus. The White House is asking for $88 million to fund drugs and to cover the costs of sending personnel

On Saturday, after the White House announced that President Barack Obama will not enact executive amnesty before the midterm elections, pro-amnesty groups vowed to “escalate” their activism what they said was a “slap to the face.”  Cristina Jimenez of the

Vice President Joe Biden emphasized the middle class and economic growth in the White House’s weekly address. Transcript as follows: Ladies and gentlemen, this is Joe Biden, I’m filling in for President Obama, while he addresses the NATO summit in

President Barack Obama will reportedly delay his executive amnesty until after the midterm elections even though he declared that he would change as many of the country’s immigration laws that he could “by the end of summer.” Senate Democrats, fearing

A new poll reveals the relative unpopularity of executive amnesty among voters. According to a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey released this week, 62 percent of likely voters oppose the president taking unilateral action to provide illegal immigrants with amnesty.

While wealth may have always been a target for attack in many political races, it reached a fever pitch in Obama’s populist attacks on Mitt Romney. Does wealth now play an out-sized role in the nation’s political back and forth? 

A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people pushing for amnesty are planning a “Day of Action,” beginning with a press conference in front of the White House next week. “President Obama has yet to deliver broad and

In today’s Washington Post, there is a picture of a nearly naked man laying supine in the dirt; hovering over him, a person fully covered in Hazmat gear — covered head to toe — dousing the dying man with disinfectant.

The same federal government that wants to centralize and computerize healthcare, including your health records, got itself hacked back in July. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Healthcare.gov site, the central hub of the ObamaCare boondoggle, was broken into

The Obama Administration might not have a clear message or strategy in dealing with ISIS, but when it comes to attacking Fox News, there’s never any mealy-mouthing or doublespeak. The White House is always on message. The latest example is

More than six in ten Americans do not want President Barack Obama to grant work permits to illegal immigrants.  When an Investors Business Daily/TIPP poll, which was conducted August 23-28, asked Americans about a potential executive action to “slow deportation of undocumented