President-elect Donald Trump urged President Obama to hold off on any final transfers from Guantanamo Bay, saying Tuesday that the detainees still being held are “extremely dangerous people.” The administration has signaled it is trying to transfer nearly 20 of the remaining detainees before Mr. Obama leaves office, making as much headway as possible on […]
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Trump Looks To Repair Damage Done By Obama To Relationship With Israel
Strained U.S.-Israeli ties reached another low as Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traded blame over the stalled Middle East peace process, with President-elect Donald Trump vowing a fresh start when he takes office on Jan. 20. Kerry, in a speech Wednesday in Washington, said Netanyahu’s policies backing the expansion of […]
Trump Praises Putin For “Very Smart” Response To Obama’s Sanctions
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter Friday to praise Russian President Vladimir Putin for not retaliating against new penalties imposed by the Obama administration for Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. election – going so far as to call Putin “very smart.” “Great move on delay (by V. Putin) – I always knew he was […]
Obama Sanctions Russia Over Election Hacks
In the most sweeping retaliation against Russia in decades, President Obama slapped the country with new penalties Thursday for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, kicking out dozens of suspected spies and imposing banking restrictions on five people and four organizations the administration says were involved. “All Americans should be alarmed by Russia’s actions,” Obama said in […]
Obama Bans Offshore Drilling In Atlantic And Arctic Oceans
President Obama moved to solidify his environmental legacy Tuesday by withdrawing hundreds of millions of acres of federally owned land in the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean from new offshore oil and gas drilling. Obama used a little-known law called the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect large portions of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in […]
Obama Sets Record For Most Pardons
WASHINGTON — President Obama granted 78 pardons and 153 commutations on Monday — a single-day record for the use of presidential clemency power as Obama engages in an historic end-of-term clemency surge. With just 32 days left in office, Obama more than doubled the number of pardons he granted in the previous seven years. And he continued […]
Obama Says ObamaCare Had Biggest Day Ever
WASHINGTON ― While the Affordable Care Act faces a looming repeal by President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress next year, its health insurance exchanges had a record day on Thursday. More than 670,000 people selected health insurance plans via the federally run exchange marketplaces, which serve people in 39 states through HealthCare.gov, President Barack Obama […]
Sheriff Joe Shows Obama Birth Certificate To Be Forgery, He Believes
PHOENIX — It was a presentation hyped by a tauntingly brief media notification more than 24 hours earlier: On Thursday afternoon, it said, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio would present the newest revelations on an investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate. At 4 p.m. sharp, Arpaio and a member of his Sheriff’s Office’s Cold Case […]
Half Of Americans Want Obamacare To Stay Or Expand
Some 49% of Americans want Trump and Congress to either expand Obamacare or continue implementing the law as it is, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released Thursday. Another 26% want the entire law repealed, while 17% would like the law scaled back. Trump and GOP Congressional leaders have said they plan to take […]
Obama Will Speak Out Against Trump If He Threatens American Ideals
US President Barack Obama has said he may speak out after leaving office if he feels his successor Donald Trump is threatening core American values. By convention, former presidents tend to leave the political fray and avoid commenting on their successors. Mr Obama said he would give Mr Trump time to outline his vision but […]
Obama Tells World His Vision Is Correct, Warns Of Trump’s Dangers
Facing rejection of his worldview on both sides of the Atlantic, President Obama doubled down Tuesday on the dangers of populism and declared that Donald Trump’s supporters don’t realize how good they’ve had it for the past eight years. Declaring, “My vision’s right,” the president said Mr. Trump won the presidential election by exploiting conservatives’ […]
Obama Taking It Upon Himself To Educate Trump
President Obama spent the better part of a year trying to convince the nation that Donald Trump was not fit to hold the Oval Office. Now, determined to smooth the transfer of power, the president has launched a persuasion campaign aimed at an audience of one: the president-elect himself. At his first postelection news conference […]