The 29-year-old transgender US Army private, born Bradley Manning, will be freed on 17 May instead of her scheduled 2045 release, the BBC reports. She was sentenced to 35 years in 2013 for her role in leaking diplomatic cables to ...
Read More »Take a VR tour of the White House narrated by President Obama before he leaves forever
Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama act as tour guides on a narrated virtual reality tour of the presidential property on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington DC, according to Metro. The tour features historical moments throughout the careers of America’s 44 ...
Read More »Obama awarded Biden with Presidential Medal of Freedom – video
“For your faith in your fellow Americans, for your love of country and for your lifetime of service that will endure through the generations, I’d like to ask the military aide to join us on stage,” Obama said in the ...
Read More »US President Obama considering pardon for Chelsea Manning
President Obama has put Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst serving a 35-year sentence for leaking classified material, on his short list for a possible commutation, a Justice Department source told NBC News. A decision could come as soon ...
Read More »US President Obama delivers emotional farewell speech – video
President Barack Obama called on Americans to unify in the face of what he characterized as “challenges to our democracy” in a sweeping farewell speech Tuesday night that served more as a call to action for the nation’s future than ...
Read More »US announces Russian sanctions, expels 35 diplomats
President Barack Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday retaliating against what the administration described as “Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities,” including sanctioning six Russian individuals and five Russian entities as well as ordering Russian diplomats to leave the country, CNN reports. US ...
Read More »CNN: Obama administration prepares sanctions against Russia for meddling US election
The actions are expected to include expanded sanctions and diplomatic measures, the officials said, in what the administration deems a proportional response to a Russian operation that went beyond cyber hacking activities common among nations, CNN reports. Some of the ...
Read More »US President Obama says he could’ve won election again
“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it,” Obama told his former senior adviser David ...
Read More »“All I Want For Christmas Is You”: This version of Barack Obama is almost as good as the original
And it’s even more fun when it is performed by the U.S. President Barack Obama. The creators of the famous YouTube parodies have again carefully extracted the text of the song from the speeches of Obama. The result is hilarious ...
Read More »Obama: Trump’s warning on elections is ‘ridiculous’
The advertised purpose of President Barack Obama’s pre-vacation news conference Thursday was to highlight gains in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria with the Pentagon as a backdrop, CNN reports. But for all his talk of terrorism, Russia ...
Read More »Obama: Trump ‘unfit’ to be president
During a press conference at the White House with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Obama posed the question to the Republican Party: “If you are repeatedly having to say what Trump says is unacceptable, why are you still endorsing ...
Read More »US President lifts embargo on lethal arms sales to Vietnam
Speaking during a visit to communist Vietnam and talks with its leaders, the US President Barack Obama said the move removed a “lingering vestige of the Cold War”, BBC reports. The US is trying to bolster its relationship with its ...
Read More »US President announces Marie Yovanovitch as nominee for ambassador to Ukraine
“Marie L. Yovanovitch, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as Dean of the School of Language Studies at the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute, a position she has held since 2014,” the White House ...
Read More »US President visited Flint, Michigan to assure residents on water safety
Barack Obama made the trip to the mostly African-American community even as he predicted it would take more than two years to replace the city’s aging pipes, Reuters reports. Flint, with a population of about 100,000, was under control of ...
Read More »Barack Obama: U.S. and NATO united in supporting Ukraine
In remarks to reporters following the bilateral meeting with Stoltenberg, Barack Obama said that the U.S. and NATO will continue to help and support Ukraine to prove ‘that Article 5 means something,’ Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the White House ...
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