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President Barack Obama is backtracking on his warning that Britain would go to the "back of the queue" for a US trade deal, as he tries to contain the fallout of the UK's decision to leave the European Union. The shift in tone illustrates how Britain's vote has abruptly scrambled Obama's reality.
Many people see striking similarities between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Great Britain's vote to leave the European Union. One of those people is Donald Trump.
Regardless of its outcome, the 2016 presidential election will draw a greater percentage of young people into the political process than in the past, according to an elected at-large delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Ryan McAllister, 28, who lives in Discovery Bay, is one of only 10 at-large delegates selected from throughout the state at the convention in Tacoma on June 19 to vote at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, set July 25-28.
Supporters of the LGBT rights movement won the latest round against conservatives when a federal judge ruled that a Mississippi "religious objections" law is unconstitutional, just moments before it was to take effect Friday. The decision could influence federal judges considering challenges to other state laws and will be held up by gay-rights advocates as another reason for legislatures to back off considering similar bills.
Republican leaders like House Speaker Paul Ryan have explained that their core rationale in supporting Donald Trump is that only he can ensure the success of conservative, free market ideas. The alternative, Ryan notes, is Hillary Clinton, who would simply continue Barack Obama's policies.
Donald Trump's trade speech Thursday veered off course when he didn't stop a woman who, while pointing to her head, objected to the "heeby jobbies" worn by some employees at the Transportation Security Administration. The comment during a town hall in New Hampshire was an apparent reference to hijabs, or headscarfs, that some Muslim women wear.
Puerto Rico faced a historic default Friday as the U.S. territory prepared to enter unchartered waters under the guidance of a newly enacted federal control board to oversee the island's finances amid a dire economic crisis. The anticipated missed payment of $2 billion in debt payments would be the biggest ever for Puerto Rico and includes $1 billion worth of general obligation bonds that are given top priority by the island's constitution.
One of Hillary Clinton's most often-repeated slams at her opponent for the presidency, Donald Trump, is that he allegedly would be a disaster for U.S. relations with other world powers. Trump, his critics insist, is not liked or trusted by many U.S. allies and the people in those countries.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has assured Vice President Joe Biden that he'll eventually endorse his Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton, Biden told an interviewer Thursday. "Oh, I've talked to Bernie, Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out," Biden told National Public Radio in an interview for "Weekend Edition" that will air on Sunday.
Organized labor, elected officials and Black leaders from across the country will come together to lift up champions of the Black vote and pay homage to a true icon in the civil rights movement, Rev. Dr. Joseph E Lowery, during DogonVillage.com's Democratic National Convention Watch Party July 26, 2016 in Philadelphia.
The vote to leave the EU is a rejection of the global neoliberal framework and its devastating impact on British cultural and economic life, writes Ayabonga Cawe. The lesson of Brexit for South Africa is not only in trade and commerce, but in the signal that the legitimacy of an exploitative global system is under question.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton met privately on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona, after the two realized they were on the same tarmac, an aide to Clinton said. The meeting took place at an Arizona airport ahead of the public release Tuesday morning of the House Benghazi committee's report on the September 11, 2012, attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.
In what was almost certainly his last visit to Canada as U.S. president, Barack Obama held court for nearly an hour before a joint session of the House of Commons and the Senate yesterday, basking in applause and heaping praise on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with whom he's become fast friends. But even as he lauded Canada for such values as integrity, human rights and fair play, he also urged it to pay its full share to NATO.
I responding to the Sunday letter "Trump could put economy on ruinous path" from John Georgiton. My question, except for a massive depression, could it get any worse? Our economy, at present, is hardly robust.
As Puerto Rico faces a major debt payment, President Barack Obama is vowing to move quickly to sign a last-minute rescue package for the financially-strapped U.S. territory and its 3.5 million Americans. In a rare election-year feat, the White House-backed legislation passed with strong bipartisan support in Congress.
Russia's Foreign Ministry does not rule out a bilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on the sidelines of a G20 summit in September, RIA news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday.
OTTAWA, Ontario President Barack Obama and the leaders of Mexico and Canada pushed back forcefully on Wednesday against the isolationist and anti-immigrant sentiments that have roiled Britain and been championed by GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
President Barack Obama will make his campaign-trail debut with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in North Carolina, launching what is expected to be an aggressive effort by Democrats to regain this swing state in November. After flipping between the two parties in the last two presidential elections, North Carolina is emerging as a key battleground and a highly trafficked destination for both parties' presumptive nominees.
Congress delivered relief to debt-stricken Puerto Rico on Wednesday, sending President Barack Obama a last-minute financial rescue package to help the U.S. territory of 3.5 million Americans. The Senate passed the bill on a bipartisan 68-30 vote, three weeks after the House overwhelmingly backed the measure .