In Dallas remarks, Obama will aim to make sense of shootings
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By Nomaan Merchant. SENT: 800 words, photos, video. WITH: POLICE SHOOTINGS-THE LATEST; POLICE SHOOTINGS-DALLAS-SURVIVOR - Surviving Dallas officer recounts anguished efforts to save colleagues.
A look at South Sudan, a young country divided by civil war
A man injured during a series of attacks on homeless men in San Diego died at a hospital - bringing the death toll to three, police said. A man injured during a series of attacks on homeless men in San Diego died at a hospital - bringing the death toll to three, police said.
Obama’s plea to police, activists
President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush on Tuesday will speak at an interfaith memorial service in Dallas for five police officers slain late last week. The President will visit the Texas city at the request of Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
There will be another Trump: His views alienate some, but the ideas…
In this June 1, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wears his "Make America Great Again" hat at a rally in Sacramento, Calif. Trump's "Make America Great Again" hats proudly tout they are "Made in USA."
Evaluating the Obama Presidency
As Barack Obama's presidency enters its final six months, is it too early to grade the Obama presidency? Let's get a head start, concentrating on a handful of core issues: Iraq and Afghanistan, foreign policy more generally, the economy, healthcare reform, fiscal policy, general atmospherics. Is there anything else I should add? Feel free to suggest more categories in the comments.
NAFTA a sore spot for some Democrats on Clinton in Michigan
Michigan is trickier than it may appear for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat whose party's presidential nominees have carried the struggling manufacturing hub for decades. Bernie Sanders beat her in the state's Democratic primary by railing against the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The Latest: Obama says people of goodwill will prevail
President Barack Obama tells members of the U.S. military in Spain that America will overcome various threats and challenges not only through its military strength but by staying true to its values, including respect for one another and the refusal to be divided by ethnicity and religion. Obama is speaking to members of the U.S. military at Naval Station Rota, where the U.S. and Spanish navies work together.
Hillary Clinton is no Nixon, but …
As presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton boarded Air Force 1 with President Obama Tuesday, the wind was most likely at her back. The cloud that hovered over her campaign had seemingly disappeared.
Town and country offer differing realities
Peggy Sheahan's rural Otero County is steadily losing population. Middle-class jobs vanished years ago as pickling and packing plants closed.
A Very Murray Wimbledon
The Kerner Report confronted a tense nation with data about structural racism throughout the country and made recommendations to solve the problem. But America looked away.
Obama eats exactly 7 almonds every night – here are some of his other nighttime habits
US President Barack Obama makes an election-night phone call to Rep. John Boehner from his Treaty Room office in the White House residence a couple of minutes after midnight in this November 3, 2010, file photograph. President Barack Obama is a night owl, and his hours of solitude after dark are crucial to his well-being, according to a story in The New York Times.
Don’t fear dark past: Obama
President Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any notion that the past week's stunning violence signals a return to racial brutality of a dark past, saying that as painful as the killings of police and black men were, "America is not as divided as some have suggested." With five Dallas police officers dead at the hands of a sniper and two black men dead at the hands of police, Obama appealed to Americans not to be overwhelmed by fear of a return to 1960s-style chaos and to understand the progress that has been made in racial relations since that time.
Obama’s first presidential stop in Spain turns hurried
On what is expected to be his last presidential visit to Europe, Obama is visi... . U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Spain's King Felipe as he arrives at the Torrejon military air base in Madrid, Spain Saturday, July 9, 2016.
Clinton Email Use Extremely Careless
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50 years of not-so-open records in America
Fun fact to know and share: One of its most enthusiastic supporters was a young Republican congressman from Illinois named Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, that Donald Rumsfeld, the one who was secretary of the Defense Department during the George W. Bush administration.
GOP not worried Trump will lose NC
In the campaign for North Carolina's 15 electoral votes, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton appears far ahead of Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump in both money and machinery. She's often stumped in the state, rolled out high-profile surrogates - President Barack Obama, for example - and is spending millions of dollars to assemble get-out-the-vote operations and fill the television airwaves with campaign ads.
Sanders Team Loses Testy Fight on Trans-Pacific Pact at Platform Meeting
Bernie Sanders 's delegates were thwarted Saturday in their attempt to push amendments blocking the Trans-Pacific Partnership, following a tense debatethat pitted Sanders backers and the Democratic Party's left flank against Hillary Clinton's supporters and President Barack Obama. The vote came as delegates wrapped up two days of wrangling in Orlando, Florida, on the final draft of the 2016 platform, a non-binding and largely symbolic document which will be officially presented at the party's convention in Philadelphia later this month.
Dallas police deaths “touched the soul of a nation” says VP Biden as US nation looks in mirror
Notes, flowers and other items decorate a squad car at a make-shift memorial in front of the Dallas police department, Saturday, July 9, 2016, in Dallas. Five police officers are dead and several injured following a shooting in downtown Dallas Thursday ni AMERICA can only hold its breath.
Dallas police killer was ‘demented,’ doesn’t represent black Americans, Obama says
President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to calm a country riven by grief and anger in the wake of the fatal shooting of five police officers here and recent high-profile deaths at the hands of officers elsewhere. His comments came as Dallas continued to reel from the rampage while protests over how police use deadly force continued in cities across the country.