President Obama

A Portrait Of The President, One Commencement Speech At A Time

10:30am May 15, 2016

by Scott Horsley

Graduations are always milestones for the students. This year they're a milestone for the president, too, as he begins to look towards his own graduation from the Oval Office.

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President Barack Obama gives his commencement address to the 2016 graduating class of Howard University.

Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard

3:01pm May 10, 2016

by Leah Donnella

Some applauded the president's speech at the historic black university as a break from "respectability politics" that demean African-Americans. Other saw it as more of the same.

Visitors shelter from the rain under the Peace Flame as they visit the Memorial Park and the nearby Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on April 21 in Hiroshima, Japan. The dome in the background was destroyed during the attack, and preserved as a monument. T

In Historic Step, Obama To Visit Hiroshima Later This Month

9:30am May 10, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

President Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Japanese city since America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of 1945.

President Obama will visit Flint, Mich., on May 4.

Obama Responds To 8-Year-Old's Email, Says He'll Visit Flint, Mich.

8:50pm April 27, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The president says he hopes to meet Mari Copeny on May 4 when he goes to Flint. She wrote to tell him about her activism on behalf of children affected by the city's contaminated water.

Candidate for U.S. Senate Katie McGinty, D-Pa., shakes hands with attendees as she arrives for her roundtable discussion with seniors at the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers in Philadelphia last week.

5 Other Contests To Watch In Tuesday's Primaries

10:09am April 26, 2016

by Jessica Taylor

Among them: Two incumbent Pennsylvania congressmen are on the defense amid questions about their ethics and personal relationships; and Maryland candidates for Senate are divided by race and gender.

A member of the Kurdish internal security forces (known as the Asayish) inspects the Alaya prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on April 22.

President Obama To Announce U.S. Is Sending 250 Military Personnel To Syria

8:22pm April 24, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

The president's announcement, set to be delivered Monday in Germany, will bring the total number of American military personnel deployed in the country to as many as 300.

Immigration activists rally in Miami ahead of the Supreme Court hearing arguments on President Obama's executive actions on immigration Monday.

Supreme Court Weighs Obama's Executive Action On Immigration

10:14am April 18, 2016

by Nina Totenberg

Twenty-six states are challenging the action, which would grant temporary, quasi-legal status and work permits to as many as 4 million parents who entered the U.S. illegally before 2010.

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President Obama bows as he greets Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 2009. The president travels to Japan next month and there's speculation he might visit Hiroshima, the site of the world's first atomic bombin

Will President Obama Visit Hiroshima?

3:47pm April 11, 2016

by Greg Myre

The White House hasn't announced any such plans. But Obama will be in Japan next month and a visit would be a grand symbolic gesture in keeping with his emphasis on nuclear nonproliferation.

President Obama answers questions during a joint news conference with Argentine President Mauricio Macri at the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires on Wednesday.

LISTEN: Obama Explains His Approach To ISIS In 7 Minutes

4:02pm March 23, 2016

by Eyder Peralta

President Obama said stopping attacks like those in Brussels is "difficult work." His advisers, he said, are working on "every strategy possible."

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President Obama delivers a speech at the Grand Theater of Havana in Cuba on Tuesday. Obama said he came to Cuba to

Obama In Havana: 'It's Time Now For Us To Leave The Past Behind'

11:39am March 22, 2016

by Eyder Peralta

Speaking at the Gran Teatro de la Havana, President Obama spoke about American ideals. He acknowledged differences but also talked about reconciliation.

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