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Obama praises Biden for guiding US through ‘perilous times’ at portrait unveiling: ‘The country is better off’

‘Thanks to your decency, and thanks to your strength – maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people, the country is better off than when you took office’

The Independent UK

Barack, Michelle Obama White House portraits unveiled

The unveiling event at the White House set humor and nostalgia over Obama’s presidency against the current harsh political talk about the survival of democracy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Here they are: Obamas' White House portraits being unveiled

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are unveiling their official White House portraits

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The Obamas return to the White House for the unveiling of their portraits

The event marked the first time in 10 years since a sitting president has invited former leadership back for a revealing of portraits — a tradition that stalled during the Trump years.

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Obama official portraits - live: Barack jokes about tan suit and Michelle jabs Trump at painting unveiling

Live coverage as the official White House portraits of the Obamas are unveiled

The Independent UK

Salaries for top staffers at Obama Foundation are outpacing their counterparts at other presidential centers

CHICAGO — Even before Barack Obama left the White House, plans to build his presidential center in Jackson Park were met with resistance as nearby residents feared the center’s very existence would drive up costs in an area the former president says he wants to uplift.

Chicago Tribune

"Special master": A dreadful idea

Our justice system is already deeply unfair. Insisting on a higher bar for Trump's prosecution only makes it worse

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$Italy's fractured left taps young feminist to lift campaign$

Italy's fractured left taps young feminist to lift campaign

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni’s is gathering momentum in her push to become Italy’s first female premier

The Independent UK

Why did Donald Trump block the Obamas’ portraits and why was the decision so controversial?

Republican’s hostility meant no painting of America’s first Black president and first lady have hung at the White House until now

The Independent UK

Judge grants Donald Trump's special master bid in document probe

The US Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into classified documents kept at former president Donald Trump's Florida home – a judge's ruling could delay the probe.

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Matthew Yglesias: A debate over the deficit is just what America needs

With unemployment low, inflation high and interest rates on the rise, the time is right to bring back an old idea: bipartisan talks to reduce the federal budget deficit.

Tribune News Service

How lies about Obama led to Trump

Folklorist Patricia Turner on how unhinged right-wing paranoia about the first Black president tore America apart

Salon

Ukraine’s latest weapon in the war: Jokes

As war has become the new normal, Ukrainians turn to dark humour to belittle Russia and lift national spirit.

Al Jazeera

‘I’ve been Maced, I’ve been to jail …’ Can 25-year-old Maxwell Frost now be the first Gen Z member of Congress?

The gun-control activist has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders and won a Democratic primary in Florida – but he still drives an Uber to make ends meet. Can he now make history?

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World War 3: Seven times it has been wrongly declared or predicted

Moscow’s remark echo a string of previous sinister predictions

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AM Homes isn’t anti-American. She just writes what she sees

As she releases her first novel in more than a decade, the Women’s Prize winner talks to Nick Duerden about predicting political turmoil in America, why she writes ‘provocative’ novels, and recovering from the Trump presidency

The Philadelphia Inquirer

African Americans converge on Martha's Vineyard each summer in search of Black joy

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — It was early in August when my husband and I had just arrived on Martha's Vineyard and ventured out by bicycle to try to get a feel for the island.

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The Loop: Kyrgios and Tomljanović reach US Open quarterfinals, Canadian police search for two men over deadly stabbings, and Brendan Fraser's standing ovation

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The Independent UK

Barack Obama beats David Attenborough to win Best Narrator Emmy

Obama is second president to win Emmy after Dwight D Eisenhower in 1956

Tribune News Service

Chadwick Boseman, Barack Obama, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are Emmy winners

The late Chadwick Boseman, former president Barack Obama and Beatles icons Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were all winners during Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmys.

The Independent UK

Donald Trump picked a fight with the National Archives. It may be the end of him

The National Archives is responsible for collecting, cataloguing and storing all federal government records. It takes its job very seriously, reports Richard Hall

The New Daily

Barack Obama wins an Emmy Award – and is halfway to an ‘EGOT’

Former US president Barack Obama has an Emmy Award to go with his two Grammys and is halway to the entertainment industry's coveted 'EGOT'.

The Independent UK

America's secrets: Trump's unprecedented disregard of norms

Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records

WEKU

Historians advise the president. The problem? The scholars were all white.

In early August the White House invited an all-white group of historians to talk about threats to American democracy.

Reason

Glenn Greenwald on the Deep State, Capitalism, and Identity Politics

"One of the things that the left and right have in common is an awareness that our government has essentially been co-opted by corporate power," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.

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