President Obama granted a commutation today to Chelsea Manning, a transgender soldier who was convicted of Espionage Act violations and other charges for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Manning w...
President Obama on Toughest Decision He Made in Office...
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 th...
Guests at President Obama's final concert at the White House had to go through three security checkpoints before placing their cellphones in brown paper bags that would be returned to them at the end of the night. No one questioned the low-t...
President Obama's Final State Dinner...
President Obama may have lunched with Vietnamese president Tran Dai Quang in the Presidential Palace, but he spent dinner in more modest surroundings: at a local restaurant in Hanoi. Obama joined TV personality and travel guru Anthony Bourdai...
Apparently only Girl Scouts can get President Obama to break one of his cardinal rules. Chief White House photographer Pete Souza posted a photo to Instagram today showing the president donning a tiara alongside a group of Girl Scouts from Tulsa, O...
Talking Points...
It is my pleasure to welcome President Hu to the White House and to return the hospitality(热情好客) that he showed when I visited China last year. This is our eighth meeting. Together we’ve shown that the United States and China, when we coope...
It was around midnight in Washington, D.C., and early afternoon in Shanghai when the President began an historic town hall in China. Taking tough and straightforward questions from Chinese students, the President discussed everything from Taiwan to t...
Using the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in on nearly 150 years ago, Barack Obama took the oath of presidency in front of an enormous cheering crowd, making a historic transfer of power....
By Marshall Brain, HowStuffWorks.com | McClatchy-Tribune November 6, 2008 Barack Obama waives to a crowd of thousands at the XL Center in Hartford. (MICHAEL MCANDREWS / February 4, 2008) With the election over and Barack Obama chosen as the...