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Barack and Michelle Obama promised that their production deal with Netflix would allow them to produce content “touching on issues of race and class, democracy and civil rights, and much more.” Now, the former first couple is turning the migration and refugee-themed novel Exit West into a movie for Netflix as part of their recently announced slate of new projects for the streaming giant.

“Red line is an old term. We’re not going to use it again,” she said, after a Fox Business reporter asked her a question on Biden’s “red line” on income caps for direct coronavirus stimulus payments.

The Washington Post op-ed says Trump must not be allowed to tout his successes — and lacks the skill to build a library, anyway.

President Joe Biden has named Robert Malley as special U.S. envoy for Iran, a senior official said on Thursday, in a move critics say is likely to be warmly applauded by the Islamic Republic’s rulers.

The general manager of the Keystone XL pipeline said “hundreds” of workers have already been laid off after President Biden axed the project.

“It’s important that our notes, our money … reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,” she said. “So we’re exploring ways to speed up that effort.” 

The Biden administration’s rumored appointment of former national security official Robert Malley as special envoy to Iran has sparked an outcry, with critics saying the move would only benefit the ayatollahs and would send a “chilling signal” that the new American administration does not care about Tehran’s regional terror nor its human rights infractions.

President Joe Biden is considering paying “navigators” to help small and minority-owned businesses get coronavirus relief funds, a White House adviser revealed Friday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson would not criticise President Joe Biden for removing the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office — a symbol of strong Anglo-American relations — despite having done so when former President Barack Obama made the same gesture years before.

A number of Senate Republicans voted to approve a waiver to allow Biden’s pick for defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, to serve in the position.

Former President Barack Obama lauded the American people after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, telling the nation that Biden’s presidency was only made possible because people wore masks and “voted like never before.”

If President Joe Biden reenters the Iran deal, it could trigger a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations, an Israeli television report citing “a very senior Israeli official” said Wednesday.

MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann said during his network’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony that seeing the past president’s standing with Biden was like “the Avengers, sort of the Marvel superheroes back up there together.”

“Twelve years ago, I was waiting at the train station in Wilmington for a black man to pick me up on our way to Washington, where we were sworn in as president and vice president of the United States of America,” Biden said.

The Rev. Michael Eric Dyson said on Sunday that American exceptionalism is just a worship of white supremacy and should be abandoned.

President Donald Trump will not invite President-elect Joe Biden to the White House ahead of the inauguration Wednesday, according to reports.

President-elect Joe Biden plans to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office, according to several news sources.

President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration has a distinctly Obama-esque feel to it, with ex-career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration named on Saturday to bulk up his State Department team.

DHS is promising a report on the many white-collar jobs given to foreigners via the huge university-backed Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.

President-elect Joe Biden is elevating to a senior White House role a former public relations guru to disgraced Hollywood mogul and sex offender Harvey Weinstein.

Iran expects the next U.S. administration under President-elect Joe Biden to unconditionally return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal as originally negotiated by President Barack Obama, Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N. said Friday.

President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday he was nominating Samantha Power, a former Obama administration official and key unmasker of Trump campaign staffers, to a top position in his incoming administration.

To give some perspective on the controversies we’ve witnessed in this election, remember that four years ago this week Obama, Biden,and Comey were talking about spying on and targeting Donald Trump and his team for prosecution.

President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20 will be a public show of bipartisan unity, attended by the three administrations before President Donald Trump.

Joe Biden has not even taken office yet, but he appears to be jettisoning his promise to restore bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. —at least according to the makeup of the president-elect’s cabinet.

A federal judge will not block the Trump administration from issuing oil leasing permits in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

“I am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election,” Bush said.

“Their fantasy narrative has spiraled further and further from reality, and it builds upon years of sown resentments,” Obama wrote. “Now we’re seeing the consequences, whipped up into a violent crescendo.”

Father Michael Pfleger, a leftist priest, was removed from Chicago ministry following allegations that he sexually assaulted a minor.

The milestones President Donald Trump made in U.S. space exploration will no doubt last light-years after he leaves office.

Raphael Warnock compares far-left hate-preacher Rev. Jeremiah Wright to biblical prophets and describes his infamous “God damn America” sermon as a “very thoughtful and compelling discussion on how a Christian should view government.”

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been named the most admired woman in America for the third consecutive year, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday.

Americans are most likely to name President Donald Trump as their most admired man as 2020 comes to a close, edging out his predecessor Barack Obama in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday.

President-elect Joe Biden has made clear in his staffing plans and public remarks that he intends to return America to many of the foreign policy positions championed by his former boss, President Barack Obama.

House Representative-elect and new “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) proclaimed Monday that capitalism is “slavery by another name.” Bowman said in an interview with The Root: I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. We’ve moved

The Cuban government appointed Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, the only individual arrested in relation to the murder of four American citizens by the Castro regime in 1996, to the State Council, a national regime entity, on Thursday.