On Saturday afternoon from the Rose Garden at the White House, President Barack Obama spoke about the release of prisoner of war Bowe Bergahl with Bergahl’s parents by his side. Follow Jeff Poor on Twitter @jeff_poor
U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice is pressuring Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to “step up his pace” in releasing what the White House calls “low level” detainees at the U.S. Naval facility that houses suspected terrorist detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In a statement released by the White House, Saturday, the president announced the release of U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held captive in Afghanistan for nearly five years. Bergdahl was released in exchange for five Guantanamo prisoners, authorities said. “On
On Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, “All-Star Panel” segment panelist George Will, A.B. Stoddard and Charles Krauthammer reacted to the announcement earlier in the day that Jay Carney would be stepping down as White House press secretary.
On Friday at the White House daily briefing, President Barack Obama made a surprise appearance to accept the resignation of current press secretary Jay Carney. The president also announced deputy press secretary Josh Earnest will take over. Carney told reporters
Barack Obama said yesterday at the White House Healthy Kids and Safe Sports Concussion Summit that he’s “sure” he endured concussions playing on the gridiron as a kid. We knew he grabbed a lot of “interceptions.” Who knew he played
Writing at CNBC, Ben White, while trying to dismiss the significance of yesterday’s report showing that the economy actually shrank for the first fiscal quarter, still admitted that the economic outlook provided a bleak landscape for Democrats going into the
President Obama announced the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki Friday, vowing to take full responsibility for the increasingly widespread scandal engulfing the VA’s health services. Within seconds of taking responsibility, however, the President made sure to assert that the
Friday morning after meeting with Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House, President Barack Obama announced he has accepted his resignation. Obama stood by Shinseki through the month of May as the waiting list scandal grew
WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden says he repeatedly raised constitutional concerns about National Security Agency surveillance internally, but an NSA search turned up a single email in which Snowden gently asks for “clarification” on a technical legal question about training
White House press secretary Jay Carney refused to answer repeated questions from ABC’s Jon Karl, about whether President Barack Obama had confidence in Veteran Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House briefing on Thursday. Carney kept attempting to redirect
Founders of the pro-family movement are reacting skeptically to an article published this week at Politico that claims their movement was founded on racism. University professor Randall Balmer insists the social conservative movement failed to coalesce over abortion, prayer in
In an oped today at The New York Times, First Lady Michelle Obama blasted Republicans for wanting to allow schools to opt out of the strict nutritional mandates her unpopular school lunch program imposes. Back in 2010, Congress passed the
On Thursday at a White House Sports Concussion Summit, President Barack Obama said he was “sure” that he may have had “mild” concussions when he played football in his youth. “Before the awareness was out there, when I was young
Thursday, the White House released the latest in it’s “Let’s Move” series of you tube videos featuring athletes and celebrities promoting first lady Michelle Obama’s healthy food initiative. In this episode, Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman parodied his 2014 NFC
One big-city California mayor won big, and another lost. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was the winner, while San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was the loser. Garcetti got his wish: on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Times reports, the U.S. Army Corps
Jorge Ramos does not hide where he stands on issues, and that has rankled “This Town” journalists who believe it is better to masquerade their liberal agendas, while simultaneously–and relentlessly–pushing them. Ramos has confronted Democrats and Republicans on amnesty, most recently
While the Seattle Seahawks joined President Obama at the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with the outspoken cornerback Richard Sherman for a video to promote her “Let’s Move” campaign. In the video, Sherman is shown preparing a
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized President Barack Obama for the matter of which he said Obama had weakened the United States’ ability to wield influence around the world. “I
For months, top Democrats have been threatening House Republicans: if you don’t act on immigration, President Obama will with the “stroke of a pen.” It’s a threat that House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte doesn’t appreciate, and now the top Obama
The First Lady’s plan to rejuvenate school lunches hasn’t been going very well, so naturally the solution is a column suggesting Republicans are child-hating extremists for wanting to fix it. In Tomasky’s columns (there really is only one, a Platonic
In response to White House Investigating Outing of CIA Station Chief: Wow, the Obama Administration is investigating itself again! I can hardly wait to learn the outcome from this hard-hitting piece of detective work, doubtless to be released sometime after
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune. “I’m not modest,” she told The Associated Press in 2013. “I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned behavior. But I do pray for humility,
The House of Representatives passed a bill last week that would restrict the National Security Agency’s ability to collect bulk information, heralded as a milestone of the post-Snowden era. With days to examine it, many critics now note that the
On Tuesday, first lady Michelle Obama attacked House Republicans for a bill aimed at loosening mandates in the 2010 Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act. The bill would let schools waive the mandates if they have a net loss on school
