As they rode in the presidential limousine to the U.S. Capitol on Inauguration Day in 2009, President George W. Bush offered some last-minute advice to President-elect Barack Obama: Announce a pardon policy early and stick to it. “On the ride up …
As part of the broader economic legacy of President Obama, from jobs to the stock market, one of the most notable changes has been the increase in the national debt.
The legacy of the 44thpresident stands to be shaped almost as much by the man who will follow him into the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress as it was by him. … After the outgoing George W. Bush administration kick-started a …
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump’s cabinet nominees, while moderating some of their stances, have made it clear during two weeks of hearings that they intend to work hard to sweep away President Obama’s domestic policy by embracing a …
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s long and fitful effort to wind down the Guantánamo Bay wartime prison came to a close on Thursday with an announcement that it had transferred four more men out of the detention complex.
If Mr. Trump expected Barack Obama, who will be the first president since Woodrow Wilson to continue living in Washington, to retire to silence, he got a rude awakening on Wednesday.
In the letter he expressed gratitude, thanking the American people for making him a better president and a better man. Between giving a small shout-out to hopeful young grads and praising universal health care, Obama also recalled certain sentimental …
The New York Times photographer Doug Mills has taken “thousands and thousands, hundreds of thousands” of photographs of Barack Obama during the eight years he’s covered the president for The Times. Mr. Mills remembers the first time he photographed Mr …
Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer would not give specific details about the extent and timing of Trump’s promised actions to turn back some of President Obama’s policies — but he promised a “robust” start. “Make no mistake … Trump …
Obama’s final list of clemency grants included no more full pardons, meaning his final pardon tally will stand at 212 – fewer than any modern president except Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. (It was the younger Bush who gave Obama …
At Thursday’s sold-out “Thanks, Obama” event, whose name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to a popular meme about the president, hundreds of supporters and well-wishers gathered near downtown Washington to applaud him on his final day in office …
It passed without a single Republican vote in the House or Senate, and it is now on track to be repealed by a Republican-controlled Congress. Republican President-elect Donald Trump has promised to provide a replacement plan shortly after the Senate …
Barack Obama’s legacy is being systematically unraveled even before he leaves office, with The Wall Street Journal scoffing that he “has been a historic president but perhaps not a consequential one.” Historians will also note that the Democratic Party …
“We had the opportunity as members of Congress to attend the intelligence community briefing about what took place in terms of hacking and the intrusion of the Russian government into our electoral processes,” she told me.
President Obama addressed a wide range of issues, including Chelsea Manning and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, during his last meeting with the White House press corps.
For the first question of his final news conference as president Wednesday, President Obama was asked to defend his decision to commute Chelsea Manning’s prison sentence.
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