President Obama announced on Tuesday what he called a permanent ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along wide areas of the Arctic and the Atlantic Seaboard as he tried to nail down an environmental legacy that cannot quickly be reversed by Donald J.
But Obama opted not to issue a warning that specific when he spoke to Putin about the hacking during a September meeting at the G-20 summit in China, said intelligence officials offering NBC News exclusive new details.
What was anything but usual was that the top prosecutor had just been sitting on a plane with Bill Clinton. And for Lynch now to announce that Hillary Clinton had been cleared would call into question the integrity of all involved, including Comey and …
Democrats anxious over the future of their party and despondent over Donald Trump’s victory are pushing for President Barack Obama to more actively wield his status as the liberal standard-bearer to counter Trump’s presidency. Obama’s remarks since the …
Trump won 306 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232 on Election Day, securing him a comfortable victory last month. Although many of Trump’s opponents had spent the past few weeks trying to figure out how they could deny the real estate mogul a path to the …
Donald J. Trump won the Electoral College, and Republicans maintained congressional majorities, because of overwhelming victories in small cities, outer suburbs and rural counties.
Some of Donald Trump’s proposals, the Texas Republican cautioned, “are not going to line up very well with our conservative policies,” though he quickly added that there was plenty the incoming president and GOP Congress could accomplish together …
A top DoE scientist who liaised with Congress on the matter was fired by the Obama administration for being too forthright with lawmakers, according to the report, which provides an in-depth look at the White House’s efforts to ensure senior staffers …
The chairman notably made no mention of the more recent intelligence assessments that reportedly found Russian hacking efforts were aimed at boosting President-elect Donald Trump’s chances of winning the election. A bipartisan group of lawmakers has …
Like a college student quivering at the thought of a conservative speaker having a platform on campus, the president dismisses any other political perspective as outside the realm of normal discourse.
On one thing there is agreement across partisan lines: Six in 10 predict incoming president Donald Trump will significantly dismantle Obama’s legacy. Three-fourths of Democrats call that a bad thing; three-fourths of Republicans call it a good one.
Washington (CNN) President Barack Obama, in his final month in office, is moving to leave as few prisoners in Guantanamo Bay as possible, notifying Congress that the administration intends to transfer out some of the detainees before Donald Trump is …
A formidable campaign surrogate for Hillary Clinton, Obama gave one of the most emotional and powerful speeches of the 2016 election at the Democratic National Convention in July. She asked Americans whom they wanted as a role model for their children …
Few people in the galaxy aren’t in need of a nice, long holiday after the deaths, the elections, and the deaths by election that have characterized 2016. … Democrats need to close the books on 2016 without somehow losing a thumb in the process …
The White House staff used that information to play a devilish prank on the president last week. A few weeks ago, Obama admitted to People magazine that he’s not a fan of the decorative snowmen set up in the White House during the holiday season.
“Obama is going to call [NBC’s] Chuck Todd – take his pick – [CNN’s] John King, [CNN’s] Wolf Blitzer … and they will not be able to wait,” Limbaugh said on his Tuesday program.
Political campaigns could be as vulnerable as businesses when it comes to hacking, says Harper Reed ⇒, who was the chief technology officer of Barack Obama‘s 2012 campaign. In a February 2013 TED talk, delivered live at the Long Beach Performing Arts …
By now, the basic facts of the case appear largely settled: hackers working in coördination with—or on direct orders from—Vladimir Putin’s government broke into the e-mail accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Hillary…
The warrant connected to the FBI search that Hillary Clinton says cost her the election shouldn’t have been granted, legal experts who reviewed the document released on Tuesday told The Huffington Post.
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