Dire predictions from Barack Obama alumni that moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, would ignite widespread violence have not panned out. There has been no dedicated Arab reprisals since the doors opened with much fanfare in May 2018. And two years later, Arab states are lining up to discuss and cement unprecedented peace…
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama expressed support for Milwaukee Bucks players who boycotted their NBA playoff game on Wednesday night following the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.“This moment demands moral leadership,” Biden said in a retweet of the video statement from Bucks players. “And these players answered by…
Former President Barack Obama revealed in a new interview that the policy goals of Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden are “not that different” than those of democratic socialist Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont. “If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’s goals, they’re not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level,” Mr. Obama…
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday said President Trump is a despot and a threat to American democracy, warning of dire and lasting consequences if voters don’t put a stop to him in November. In his pitch at the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Obama implored voters to turn out for Joseph R. Biden and stop…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama will deliver blistering critiques of President Trump's leadership at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night and warn Democrats too much is on the line of they don't mobilize for Joe Biden, according to excerpts from their speeches.DEM HEAVYWEIGHTS GRAB CONVENTION SPOTLIGHT AHEAD OF HARRIS’ BIG…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…