President Obama endorses Bill de Blasio for NYC mayor
President Barack Obama endorsed Democratic candidate Bill de Blasio for mayor of New York City.Credit: Getty Images/Reuters Bill de Blasio has racked up another high-profile Democrat’s endorsement....
View ArticleDe Blasio to meet with President Obama: reports
President Barack Obama endorsed Democratic candidate for mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday. Rumor has it a quick face-to-face is scheduled for the two Tuesday night.Credit: Getty Images / Reuters A day...
View ArticleObama praises Dante de Blasio’s afro
President Barack Obama gave a special shoutout to Dante de Blasio and his hair at a Democratic fundraiser on Tuesday night. Credit: Twitter/Bill Hyers Dante de Blasio may have gotten the best...
View ArticleHouse conservatives hold firm as government shutdown looms
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (C) and Senator Mike Lee (2nd R) speak to reporters about their opposition after the Senate passed a spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, sending the issue back to the...
View ArticleU.S. House to start votes on budget plan, with Obamacare delay
Get Covered America buttons are seen during a training session in Chicago, Illinois September 7, 2013 before volunteers canvas a Chicago neighborhood to talk with residents about the Affordable Care...
View ArticleWashington enters fifth day of shutdown, no end in sight
U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX), and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) stand together during a news conference with fellow House Republicans at the...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize awarded to chemical weapons watchdog
A U.N. chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighbourhood of Damascus on Aug....
View ArticleDeal to resolve fiscal crisis stalls in congress
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the continuing government shutdown during a news conference from the White House Briefing Room in Washington.Credit: Reuters Hopes for a resolution of...
View ArticleU.S. negotiations on fiscal deal intensify in Senate
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) addresses reporters after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington.Credit: Reuters Congressional negotiations to end a U.S....
View ArticleObama to visit Brooklyn’s P-TECH High School on Friday
Credit: Google Maps President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn on Friday, months after he praised the school in his State of the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Obama helps fainting woman during his speech
A pregnant woman who was standing behind President Barack Obama during a speech in the Rose Garden on Monday almost fainted, and the video of Obama turning around to help her has gone viral. Obama was...
View ArticleProspect Park to be closed for Obama visit
All 585 acres of Prospect Park will be closed from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday for security associated with President Obama’s visit to a Brooklyn school. (Credit: Google Maps) Prospect Park will be closed...
View ArticleObama visits Brooklyn school, praises NY for education reform
President Obama delivering his speech at Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.Credit: William Alatriste A helicopter carrying President Barack Obama touched down...
View ArticleAfter tough week, White House buys time for Obamacare website fix
A busy screen is shown on the laptop of a Certified Application Counselor as he attempted to enroll an interested person for Affordable Care Act insurance, known as Obamacare, at the Borinquen Medical...
View ArticleHundreds march in Washington against NSA spying
Demonstarators march at the “Stop Watching Us: A Rally Against Mass Surveillance” near the U.S. Capitol in Washington.Credit: Reuters Hundreds of protesters marched on Capitol Hill in Washington on...
View ArticleObamas, Clintons to lay wreath at JFK’s grave in 50-year remembrance
Flowers are left at the memorial for U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Hyannis, Massachusetts November 14, 2013. November 22 will mark the 50th anniversary of his assassination in 1963.Credit: Reuters...
View ArticleSomber remembrances mark anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting
A sign is pictured in the Sandy Hook area of Newtown, Connecticut December 13.Credit: Reuters One of the 6-year-olds was so sweet his teacher said he should have come to school wrapped in a bow....
View ArticleObama marks Newtown massacre anniversary with call for gun control
A heart is emblazoned with crosses to commemorate the 26 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims in Sandy Hook village in Newtown, Connecticut.Credit: Reuters President Barack Obama marked the...
View ArticleObama faces smattering of protests on Hawaiian vacation
Protesters hold signs as the motorcade of U.S. President Barack Obama returns to Obama’s vacation home in Kailua, Hawaii.Credit: Reuters The serenity of President Barack Obama’s Hawaiian vacation was...
View Article‘Barack Obama cheats on Michelle’ claims Japanese politician in bizarre blog...
President Barack Obama visits Japan this week. Credit: Getty A senior Japanese politician has marred Barack Obama’s official visit to Tokyo with bizarre claims that the president has cheated on his...
View ArticleObama calls alleged Donald Sterling comments ‘racist’
Real estate mogul and Los Angeles Clippers NBA basketball team owner Donald Sterling attends the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California.Credit: Reuters President Barack Obama...
View ArticleObama mocks self at Correspondents’ Association dinner
U.S. President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gesture as they take part in a joke during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington.Credit:...
View Article‘Living testament’: Sept. 11 Memorial Museum remembers NYC’s darkest day
For 13 years, the streets around the World Trade Center have been surrounded with chain-link fences. Those fences come down on Thursday, opening up the area where more than one million visitors have...
View ArticleBarack Obama commemorates somber dedication for Sept. 11 Memorial Museum
President Barack Obama greets World Trade Center attacks survivor Ling Young (center) and Alison Crowther, (right) the mother of Welles Crowther who died in the attacks while assisting in evacuation...
View ArticleBrown vs. Board of Education turns 60, Obamas mark occasion
The landmark Supreme Court ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education, happened on May 17, 1954. President Barack Obama on Friday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that...
View ArticleU.S. soldier freed from five year captivity in Afghanistan
Undated image from video footage taken from a Taliban-affiliated website shows a man who says he is Private First Class Bowe R. Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban in southeastern...
View ArticleU.S. orders aircraft carrier to Iraq, in case it’s needed
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington.Credit: Reuters U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an aircraft carrier moved...
View ArticleNYC bids for Barack Obama library on Columbia campus
While the Barack Obama Foundation considers the president’s birth state of Hawaii and political base Chicago top contenders, Columbia University would also like to house its alumnus’ presidential...
View ArticleObama seeks to give government employees with families more leeway
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House about the Iraq situation in Washington June 19, 2014.Credit: Reuters President Barack Obama, as part of efforts to make the U.S. workplace more...
View ArticleObama chooses former Procter & Gamble exec to head Veterans Administration
Bob McDonald, chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble, looks on during a water purification event at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, September 23, 2012.Credit: Reuters President...
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