The Latest Breaking News from Barack Obama

COMMENT: Kathryn Bigelow’s new Netflix film seems, at first, to be a chillingly plausible tale of a hypothetical nuclear attack. But in making one key departure from our reality, it ends up becoming an absurd fantasy, writes Louis Chilton

Jiro Ono once served sushi to former US President Barack Obama

The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.

The revised White House ‘Major Events Timeline’ comes as as crews are demolishing the historic East Wing to indulge the president in his $300 million ballroom

The digs come as Trump receives growing scrutiny over his ballroom.

With November right around the corner, special elections are rapidly approaching. In a country current fraught with political tension on both sides, several key issues remain more important than ever. One of those issues is California’s Prop 50.

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Every few decades, Americans rediscover that their republic was built on a rejection – the rejection of being ruled by a monarch. Now, in one of the largest protest movements in many years, the phrase “No kings” is everywhere: on placards, online memes, and in chants aimed at a president…

Obama once joked about what a gaudy Trump White House would look like – the president seems bent on proving him right