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A Republican candidate for Kentucky's state legislature posted racist images of President Barack Obama and his family -- and defended those images by saying "Facebook's entertaining." Dan Johnson, the bishop of Heart of Fire Church in Louisville, posted an edited image of the president and first lady with ape-like features.
As FEMA administrator Craig Fugate, left, watches, President Barack Obama gives Gov. John Bel Edwards a hug after visiting the flood damaged area on August 23. In just eight months in office, Gov. John Bel Edwards has been through two catastrophic flood events, two deadly shootings involving law enforcement that grabbed national headlines, a bitter battle over the state budget and ongoing sparring with the state's attorney general. Fifty-six of the state's 64 parishes have received federal disaster declarations.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody anti-drug war and his foul-mouthed outbursts in defence of the campaign have unnerved foreign investors in one of Asia's fastest-growing economies. Analysts and businessmen point to uncertainties about Duterte's policies and flip-flopping pronouncements as largely to blame for foreign selling in the stock market and the peso's plunge to a seven-year low, reversing the initial optimism after his June 30 inauguration.
Too many Americans do not seem to be making an important connection between themselves and policies enforced by President Barack Obama and espoused by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Many may understand, as Donald Trump, Clinton's opponent, put it, that Clinton is waging "war on energy."
The 75th Pearl Harbor Commemoration, an 11-day series of events to mark the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, is expected to attract a slate of celebrities, which may include President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and actor Tom Hanks. Organizer Tony Vericella announced Friday at the Hawaii Tourism Conference closing luncheon that there is a "strong possibility" that the Obamas and Hanks will attend the "December 7th Remembered" gala, which will be held Dec. 6 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort.
Brother Frog could not have prepared us any better than to issue his "what is joke to you is death to me" admonishment. Yet, Donald Trump may very well become the 45th president of the United States.
Melanie Austin sits in her kitchen at home near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 6. She is an avid Donald Trump supporter and thinks he will win her state Nov. 8. Melanie Austin shows the gown she was wearing the day police took her to a hospital after she had posted online comments including one saying President Barack Obama should be hanged. Ardent Donald Trump supporter Melanie Austin visits an abandoned hospital Aug. 7 in Brownsville, Pa.
When Mitt Romney lost in 2012, there was very little discussion of blame. Everyone assumed that Romney simply lost because he didn't do a good enough job of convincing voters to punch the ballot for him.
Pentagon chief Ashton Carter criticized the "deeply troubling" remarks by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, in which he likened his deadly war on crime to Hitler's efforts to exterminate Jews. Carter's comments came during a regional security summit with Southeast Asian ally nations, where he sought to reassure counterparts that America's ongoing commitment to its Asia "rebalance" would continue into the next US administration.
Ko Olina, Oct 1 : Pentagon Chief Ashton Carter met with Southeast Asian defense ministers to discuss regional security issues and reassure them America's "rebalance" to Asia will continue under the next US administration. The rebalance - or "pivot," as it is sometimes called - has been a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, with a shifting of focus away from the Middle East and toward the Asia-Pacific region.
The White House on Friday corrected a press release on President Barack Obama's remarks at late Israeli President Shimon Peres' funeral to clarify their location. The original version of the remarks identified the location as Jerusalem, Israel.
Donald Trump hit back later Friday at attacks by Hillary Clinton over his early morning Twitter rant on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, referencing a line in an infamous campaign ad against Barack Obama in 2008. For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call! Trump was widely slammed after he raged against Clinton, ultimately accusing her of helping Machado become a United States citizen so she could bring his past with her up in Monday night's debate.
Donald Trump is out with a new ad starring his daughter, Ivanka, one of the GOP nominee's most effective advocates. The ad appears aimed at women and touts Trump's recently announced proposals for childcare tax credits and paid maternity leave through unemployment insurance.
Israeli leader Shimon Peres was eulogized at a cemetery ceremony in Jerusalem on Friday by President Barack Obama and other world leaders. Peres, who held government positions since Israel's 1948 founding and was president, prime minister, cabinet member, parliament member and Nobel Prize laureate in his long career, died Wednesday at 93 after a stroke.
Unfortunately for Bush, he soon lost the “I paid for this microphone!” debate with Ronald Reagan in New Hampshire that propelled the Gipper's turnaround toward capturing the Republican nomination. Trump certainly had the Big Mo going into the first debate.
Walk through campus at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and ask students whom they plan to vote for, and Hillary Clinton's struggle to win millennial voters is immediately clear. Take three students who were standing together outside a student center.
Trump now leads in Nevada, Colorado, Iowa, Ohio and North Carolina - all states Barack Obama won his first term - according to Real Clear Politics averages. The Political Industrial Complex encompasses all those elites whose livelihoods are predicated on central-control of resources and who determine who is allowed to succeed in society.
The Chicago Tribune, a Windy City newspaper that historically backs Republican candidates, endorsed Libertarian Gary Johnson on Friday, calling him "practical," "agile" and "experienced." "Libertarians Gary Johnson of New Mexico and running mate William Weld of Massachusetts are agile, practical and, unlike the major-party candidates, experienced at managing governments," the paper said.
U.S. President Barack Obama condoles family members, after the burial ceremony at the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres on Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, Friday, Sept. 30, 2016.
On a cloudless blue morning, an honor guard brought the flag-draped casket of Shimon Peres to the Mount Herzl national cemetery on Friday as 100 world leaders and dignitaries from 70 countries assembled to bid a final farewell to the former Israeli leader and Nobel laureate. President Barack Obama, who was the last to speak, said that the contribution made by Peres to Israel was "so fundamental, so pervasive, it can sometimes be overlooked."