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Steph Curry and President Obama erupt a volcano together in hilarious mentorship video
Barack Obama and Steph Curry teamed up to star in a video to promote a youth mentorship program called My Brother’s Keeper. The two look like they’re best buddies, and it’s a wonderful way to get the word out for the program. Obama helps Curry perfect his resume with brutal honesty. “Incredible dancer? I...
Battle over Obama immigration actions lands before Supreme Court
The impassioned election-year debate over President Obama’s immigration executive actions lands Monday before a short-handed Supreme Court, where justices will consider a fundamental question: how much power does the president truly have? The justices plan to hold 90 minutes of oral arguments dealing with Obama’s...
U.S. gaining momentum on Islamic State, Obama says
The United States and allied forces have the Islamic State on the defensive, President Obama said Wednesday, with the terrorist group failing to mount a single offensive operation in Syria or Iraq since last summer. "We have momentum, and we intend to keep that momentum," he said. "It’s harder than ever for...
What Obama Says Is His ‘Worst Mistake’ as President
In his final year in office, President Obama has spent a significant amount of time emphasizing what he sees as his long list of accomplishments since 2008, but in an interview today he also admitted what he considers to be his "worst mistake." "Probably failing to plan for, the day after, what I think was the...
Obama: Trump ‘doesn’t know much about foreign policy’
President Barack Obama said Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan and South Korea should consider obtaining nuclear weapons demonstrates the Republican presidential front-runner's lack of understanding about foreign policy and the world at large. "The person who made the statements doesn't know much about...
Obama, leaders urge more action on nuclear security, terror
World leaders declared progress Friday in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished. Closing out a nuclear security summit, Obama warned of a persistent and harrowing threat: terrorists getting their hands on a nuclear...
U.S. releases inventory of A-bomb materials
WASHINGTON — The United States released a public inventory of its supplies of highly enriched uranium, the material that can be used to make nuclear weapons, President Obama said Friday as he opened the second day of the biennial Nuclear Security Summit. "That inventory is one that we have reduced considerably,"...
Threats Persist as Obama Hosts His Final Nuclear Security Summit
President Barack Obama will host his fourth and final nuclear security summit in Washington this week with tons of loose nuclear material still not sufficiently secured and still potentially accessible to terrorists or other individuals with malicious intentions. The White House says that while it is impossible to...
Obama visits Argentina on Eve of Coup Anniversary
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Argentina for a two-day visit that signals warming relations with the economically troubled nation, but also coincides with the 40th anniversary of a coup supported by the United States. President Obama touched down in Buenos Aires just after midnight Wednesday, local time, in his next...
In Havana, a presidential party like it’s 1928
HAVANA — There hasn't been a party like this in Havana since 1928. President and Mrs. Obama arrived back at Cuba's presidential palace Monday night for a once-in-three-lifetimes event: A state dinner hosted by the Cuban president — a Marxist revolutionary — in honor of the President of the United...
Cuba releases most opposition members detained ahead of Obama visit
HAVANA—While Cuban officials have released the majority of some 50 Ladies in White dissidents arrested at their weekly demonstration here Sunday afternoon, 10 remain unaccounted for, the opposition group’s leader told VOA Monday. Berta Soler said most of the dissidents – taken into custody just hours before...
Why President Obama Won’t Meet With Fidel Castro
Cuban President Raul Castro will roll out the red carpet for President Obama as he makes his historic trip to the island nation today. But there's another Castro who will be conspicuously absent from the diplomatic fanfare: Castro's older brother Fidel Castro. The White House says President Obama will not meet with the...