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Finally, we may have solved the mystery of how former President Obama managed to drag the U.S. into the Paris Climate Accord – effectively a form of binding international treaty – without the necessary Congressional ratification.

Democrats swept into the majority in the Virginia state legislature, in both the House of Delegates and the State Senate, taking majorities in both in Tuesday’s elections.

The National Resources Defense Council announced on Tuesday that it hired former Environmental Protection Agency Adminstrator Gina McCarthy.

Trump ridiculed former Vice President Joe Biden again on Monday, pointing to his recent gaffes on the campaign trail. Trump imitated Biden campaign “handlers” yelling at him for all of his political gaffes.

A newly launched super PAC backing former Vice President Joe Biden is turning to one of his son’s lobbying colleagues to help run its operation.

“This country cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump,” Buttigieg said. “We will not recognize it if he gets reelected.”

“In the delusional democrat fantasy I am now supposed to be afraid of someone called one percent Joe,” Trump said.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addressed Joe Biden’s (D) critique of her Medicare for All plan, citing Obama in defense of her big government proposal and implying that the former vice president is repeating “Republican talking points”

Former first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that her husband, former President Barack Obama, could have built his presidential library anywhere in the world because many feel he is “their president.” 

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball” during a discussion with former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, host Chris Matthews argued part of the reason Donald Trump was elected president was former President Barack Obama “was such a sterling character.”

Democrat presidential hopeful and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro asserted Wednesday that Democrats should not take the “safe route” in order to win back the White House.

President Trump’s plan to continue reducing refugee resettlement across the United States is “not warranted,” according to the pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations. 

The U.S. State Department this week agreed to comply with a federal judge’s order to produce documents related to President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine to a so-called watchdog group founded by former Obama administration officials.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes about the approaching $23 trillion federal debt and laments how no one seems to worry enough to do something about it. Ortiz suggests only a constitutional amendment will fix the problem.

Recode reports that donors must cough up $355,000 to support the event as a chair and $10,000 just to attend the reception scheduled for November 21.

Former first lady Michelle Obama condemned white people for fleeing minority neighborhoods just weeks after she and her husband purchased a $15 million estate in Martha’s Vineyard.

Hollywood director Ava DuVernay took offense to a parody video posted by TV host Jimmy Kimmel, which compared and contrasted President Trump’s announcement of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death to President Obama’s announcement of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Former President Barack Obama derided the political left’s woke purists and the overall cancel culture during a talk Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, Illinois.

A 25-year union worker with Ford Motor Company says President Donald Trump is “the only person defending” American auto workers while 2020 Democrats propose an environmental agenda that will “destroy union jobs” for the middle class.

(AP) — When President Barack Obama was reelected in 2012, a Saudi tycoon and his business associate sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the U.S. to help pay for the inaugural celebration and get a picture with the president, according to court documents and an analysis of campaign finance records by The Associated Press.

Several 2020 Democrat candidates omitted President Trump from their remarks on the U.S. raid that led to the death of ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice said she was “quite confident” that the Trump administration did not follow the “normal protocol” of informing President Barack Obama about the weekend killing of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The parents of murdered American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller gave media interviews on Sunday and Monday in which they thanked President Donald Trump and the U.S. military for tracking down and killing Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the man who enslaved, raped, and killed their daughter.

Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell he had not received his former boss President Barack Obama’s nomination because he had asked him not to endorse him.

The vice chair of the Democrat National Committee (DNC) reportedly owes about $25,000 in back taxes to the state of New York.

Joe Biden snubbed President Donald Trump when issuing a congratulatory statement on Sunday upon news that U.S. forces had killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. 

Trump on bin Laden: “I want to personally congratulate President Obama and the men [and] women of the Armed Forces for a job very well done.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked the state’s family service agency to investigate the medical claims surrounding James Young, the seven-year-old boy whose mother says he wants to live as a “transgender” girl.

Former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are expected to speak at the late Rep. Elijah Cummings’ funeral on Friday, according to reports.

President Donald Trump has met one of his key election promises and confirmed the U.S. will definitely withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) immigration plan, which opens the border to all foreign nationals, was drafted by a handful of illegal alien staffers.

Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who provided key testimony to the Democrats’ controversial impeachment inquiry yesterday, has evidenced a close relationship with the Atlantic Council think tank, even writing Ukraine policy pieces with the organization’s director.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a London-based NGO tracking abuses in the country, published a video Tuesday showing jihadis allied with Turkey shouting “Allahu Akbar” and kicking around the dead body of a Kurdish woman fighting the Turkish invasion.

Intelligence agencies may be scared of indictments yielded by U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of Russiagate’s origins, said Hans von Spakovsky.

Former President Barack Obama had dinner with veteran actor Robert De Niro, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken Trump critics, in New York City on Monday evening, according to a report. 

“Congratulations to Justin Trudeau on a wonderful and hard-fought victory,” Trump wrote on Twitter.