In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day

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In Break With Precedent, Obama Envoys Are Denied Extensions Past Inauguration Day

New York Times
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition staff has issued a blanket edict requiring politically appointed ambassadors to leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, according to several American diplomats familiar with the plan

Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch

NPR
Bernie Sanders talks to reporters about preserving the Affordable Care Act with fellow Democrats from both the House and Senate after a meeting with President Obama at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. … Bernie Sanders thinks he has a pretty good idea why

Michelle Obama: The Historic Legacy of the Nation’s First Black First Lady

NBCNews.com
For the past two years, Michelle Obama has attended a ceremony in the East Room of White House honoring the country’s school counselor of the year as part of her program encouraging students to pursue higher learning.

Erasing Obama

New York Times
For a soon-to-be nowhere man, he’s everywhere. Sensing “time’s winged chariot hurrying near,” as the poet had it, President Obama is using every hour left in his presidency to ensure that Donald Trump will not erase it all. It’s one part vanity project.

4 More Prisoners Leave Guantanamo In Waning Days Of Obama Administration

NPR
Since the Obama administration hasn’t been able to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the push has been on to transfer as many of the cleared detainees as possible before Donald Trump becomes president. The Pentagon announced on Thursday …

Lessons From Obama’s Failure

Wall Street Journal
President Obama does few favors for Republicans, but he did them a parting one this week when he sojourned to Capitol Hill, where he exhorted Democrats to defend ObamaCare. The vision of the president calling on his party’s members to—yet again—lay …

Obama: Chicago live-stream hate crime is ‘despicable’

BBC News
President Barack Obama has described the torture of a mentally disabled man in Chicago, streamed on Facebook Live, as a “despicable” hate crime.

Ranchers spar with Obama over new national monuments in Utah and Nevada

Fox News
But President Obama’s recent establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada has caused Johnson and his neighbors to worry that the land his family’s cattle has grazed on for generations may …

Vice President Biden to President-elect Trump: ‘Grow up’

CNBC
Biden dismissed Trump’s complaint on Twitter about how the Obama administration has handled the transition. The vice president told “PBS … The vice president also said that Trump as president will have to propose legislation that Congress and the

Democrats Appeal for Compromise: Alter, but Don’t Gut, the Health Law

New York Times
WASHINGTON – With Republican leaders pressing to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, possibly within weeks, moderate Senate Democrats reached out on Thursday to Republicans, appealing for them to slow down the repeal efforts and let lawmakers try to

Intelligence Chief Defends Finding Russia Meddled in Election

Wall Street Journal  – ‎9 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON—Top American intelligence officials reaffirmed and broadened their accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.

Obama ignores facts with boastful ‘greatest hits’ list

New York Post
“Today, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, another 20 million American adults know the financial security and peace of mind that comes with health insurance,” the president boasted. Meanwhile, Americans have lost their doctors, watched their costs soar

Obama To The American People: ‘Our Best Days Are Still Ahead’

NPR
As President Obama’s tenure in the White House draws to a close, he’s looking back on eight years of work – and ahead toward what he sees as a brighter future for the U.S.. In a letter to the American public, Obama says he’s proud that the country is …

Trump Takes on Democrats and Health Law in New Twitter Blitz

New York Times
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald J. Trump lashed out at Democrats on Thursday over their efforts to preserve President Obama’s health care coverage law, insulting their top legislative leader and denouncing the measure as a “lie” as he called for a

Congress looks to start building a Mexican border wall within months

Washington Post
In a bid to swiftly deliver on one of President-elect Donald Trump’s chief campaign promises, congressional Republicans are exploring ways to begin funding a barrier on the U.S. southern border starting as soon as April. Multiple lawmakers described

Michelle Obama Can Now Speak Her Mind. Will She?

New York Times
After Donald J. Trump recites the oath of office, a helicopter – no longer called Marine One, because the president will not be on board – will lift the Obamas into new lives.

Plane Crew Didn’t Rebuff Obama

FactCheck.org
In the middle of Barack Obama’s final family vacation as president, a headline published on the website USA Daily Info claimed that the “Crew of Air Force One Refuses to Fly Obama 6000 Miles ‘Just to Play Golf.’ ” But the crew did no such thing. The

Obama really doesn’t want you to forget all his awesome tweets

CNET
You can now search through eight years of tweets, GIFs, Facebook posts, Instagram shots and other social media offerings from President Barack Obama and his administration in the Obama White House Social Media Archive. The archive, hosted by platform …

Obama’s Anger Translator Helps The President Make His Farewell Address

Huffington Post
This mellow approach inspired Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele to create Luther, the president’s anger translator, for their Comedy Central series “Key & Peele.

House Republicans revive obscure rule that allows them to slash the pay of individual federal workers to $1

Washington Post
House Republicans this week reinstated an arcane procedural rule that enables lawmakers to reach deep into the budget and slash the pay of an individual federal worker – down to $1 – a move that threatens to upend the 130-year-old civil service.

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