WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the 115th Congress will be sworn in at noon Tuesday, setting off an aggressive campaign by Republicans who control the House and Senate to dismantle eight years of President Barack Obama’s Democratic policies. The first and biggest target is Obama’s health care law, which Republicans have long sought to gut […]
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President Barack Obama says he would have beaten President-elect Donald Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama said in an interview released Monday that he could have beaten Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “if I had run again.” In his most pointed critique yet, Obama said Hillary Clinton’s campaign acted too cautiously out of a mistaken belief that victory was all but certain. “If you think […]
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Presidential fitness?
Outgoing President Barack Obama has had the ability to speak and charm. His speeches were eloquent, especially when using the teleprompter. He could probably sell ice cubes to Eskimos. That is why he was able to pull the wool over so many people’s eyes. If his gift had been used for better objectives, it would […]
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Obama blocks new oil, gas drilling in Arctic Ocean
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in the icy waters will harm whales, walruses and other wildlife and exacerbate global warming. A five-year offshore drilling plan announced on Friday blocks planned sale of new oil and […]
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President Barack Obama urges nation to ‘forge unity’ after bitter election
ARLINGTON, Va. — Three days after Election Day, President Barack Obama used his last Veterans Day speech to urge Americans to learn from the example of veterans as a divided nation seeks to “forge unity” after the bitter 2016 campaign. Obama, in remarks at Arlington National Cemetery, noted that Veterans Day often comes on the […]
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Barack Obama, Donald Trump have an ‘excellent’ meeting at White House
At the close of the Oval Office sit-down, Obama said to Trump, “We now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed the country succeeds.” The two men, who have been harshly critical of each other for years, were meeting for the first time, Trump said. […]
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Donald Trump counter punches as more accusers step forward
WASHINGTON (AP) — Updated coverage of the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): Updated 3:30 p.m.: Donald Trump is warning President Barack Obama that women could wrongly accuse him of sexual assault, as he claims has happened to him. Several women have come forward in recent days accusing the Republican presidential nominee of groping them or […]
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The sad legacy of Barack Obama
WASHINGTON — Only amid the most bizarre, most tawdry, most addictive election campaign in memory could the real story of 2016 be so effectively obliterated, namely, that with just four months left in the Obama presidency, its two central pillars are collapsing before our eyes: domestically, its radical reform of American health care, aka Obamacare; […]
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Donald Trump says President Obama was born in the U.S.
WASHINGTON — After five years as the chief promoter of the false idea that President Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States, Donald Trump admitted on Friday that the president was — and claimed credit for putting the issue to rest. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period,” Trump said in […]
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President Obama to create 1st marine national monument off New England coast
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will establish on Thursday the first national marine monument in the Atlantic, a move that’s designed to permanently protect nearly 5,000 square miles of underwater canyons and mountains off the coast of New England. The White House said the designation will lead to a ban on commercial fishing, mining and […]