Obama lays wreath in historic Hiroshima visit
Barack Obama, the first incumbent U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, lays a wreath at the site of the world's first atomic bombing. Rough cut .
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Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Barack Obama on Friday will become the first American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of Hiroshima. Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to the "silent cry" of the 140,000 people killed by the world's first atomic bomb attack and sought to renew attention in his unfulfilled vision of a world without nuclear weapons,... Four Navy aviators ejected from two fighter jets "at a high rate of speed" after their aircraft got into trouble in the air and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off the North Carolina coast, one of the rescuers said.
Abe claims success as G-7 leaders back action on economies
From Left to right; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, Laos' President Bounnhang Vorachit, European Union Council President Donald Tusk, Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Chad's President Idriss Deby, U.S. President Barack Obama, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, France's President Francois Hollande, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Asian ... (more)
Global Agenda, 1:15 PMIn historic Hiroshima visit, Obama urges nuclear disarmament
US President Barack Obama on Friday became the first sitting president to visit the site of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Japan, where he called on world nations to "escape the logic of fear" and reduce their nuclear arsenals. Obama, who was in the country while attending a G7 summit, visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Trump rails against Hispanic judge in Trump University case
Donald Trump went after the federal judge presiding over a civil case against the now-defunct Trump University Friday, calling out the judge's ethnicity in an attack spanning several minutes at a San Diego campaign rally while protests against Trump's anti-immigrant policies raged outside . "I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump -- a hater.
Obama at Hiroshima: What to watch for
Seven decades after the U.S. launched an atomic attack in Hiroshima, President Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit the city Friday, traveling there to offer a reconciliatory balm for the still-painful knowledge of the devastation countries can inflict upon one another. By visiting Hiroshima, Obama is casting the powerful presidential spotlight on the haunted memories of one of history's darkest days.
Visitors to Hiroshima memorial reflect on Obama’s visit
Visitors to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Friday had this to say ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit later in the day. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to come to Hiroshima, a city devastated by a U.S.-dropped atomic bomb at the end of World War II.
Obamas’ post-White House address: Nine-bedroom mansion in Washington
Washington, May 26 : The Obamas will be shifting to an 8,200-square-foot nine-bedroom luxurious mansion in the upscale Kalorama neighbourhood of Washington after the family leaves the White House in January. According to the New York Times, the house is a short distance away from the White House and is owned by Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary and senior adviser to former president Bill Clinton.
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Why did the U.S. bomb Hiroshima?
President Barack Obama on Friday will become the first sitting American president to visit Hiroshima, the first city ever to be devastated by a nuclear weapon. Here's why the President's visit to the Peace Memorial Park is such a historic event.
Hatch steadfast in holding up Supreme Court confirmation after meeting with Garland
After meeting with President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court choice Thursday, Sen. Orrin Hatch remained steadfast that the Senate should wait until after the November election to consider a nominee. The Utah Republican said he sat down with Merrick Garland as a friend and out of respect for his position as a distinguished federal judge.
News Analysis: Trump poised to be competitive presidential candidate…
Brash U.S. billionaire Donald Trump on Thursday hit the number of delegates needed to grab the Republican Party nomination, as some experts predict that he will be a competitive candidate in the presidential race. The development comes on the heels of Trump's recent surge in the polls, as he for the first time is running neck-in-neck with likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton .
Obama ready to face historic, haunted ground of Hiroshima
Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Barack Obama on Friday will become the first American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of Hiroshima. Here, at this place of so much suffering, where U.S. forces dropped the atomic bomb that gave birth to the nuclear age, Obama will pay tribute to the 140,000 people who died from the attack seven decades ago.
Senate Republicans Want To Send ISIS Members To Guantanamo
President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, to discuss the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Senate Republicans put forward a bill Wednesday that would send ISIS fighters to prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Trump claims has enough delegates to win Republican nomination
... real estate tycoon. Trump now has the backing of 1,238 delegates, one more than the 1,237 needed, according to the US news agency the Associated Press which first reported Trump crossing the threshold. It said the real estate tycoon's delegate count ...
Sanders accepts Ky. results, making Clinton the winner
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has accepted Kentucky's primary election results, moving front-runner Hillary Clinton one delegate closer to securing the nomination. State officials reviewed election totals from electronic voting machines and absentee ballots on Tuesday at the request of Sanders' campaign after he finished 1,911 votes behind Clinton in the state's May 17 primary, or less than one half of 1 percent of the vote.
Trump reaches magic number to clinch Republican nomination
Donald Trump on Thursday reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination for president, completing an unlikely rise that has upended the political landscape and sets the stage for a bitter fall campaign. Trump was put over the top in the Associated Press delegate count by a small number of the party's unbound delegates who told the AP they would support him at the convention.
Nuclear-free aspirations of Obama, Abe conflict with reality
When U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe make a historic visit to Hiroshima on Friday - the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited the site of the first atomic bomb attack - their words advocating nuclear disarmament will clash with real-world security necessities. Far from backing up the vision of a world without nuclear bombs that Obama laid out in a 2009 speech that helped secure a Nobel Peace Prize, his near-finished presidency has seen a multibillion-dollar modernization of the U.S. nuclear force.
Japan urges G-7 to avert another economic crisis
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, stands with other leaders of Group of Seven industrial nations, from left, European Council President Donald Tusk, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Barack Obama, Abe, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as they pose for the family photo during the first day of the G-7 summit meetings in Shima, Japan, Thursday, May 26, 2016.
Sanders takes different position on superdelegates than he did in 2008
Bernie Sanders Libertarian Party eyes 2016 as breakthrough year Clinton urged to go liberal with vice presidential pick Sanders takes different position on superdelegates than he did in 2008 MORE 's suggestion that he might fight for the presidential nomination all the way to July's Democratic National Convention runs counter to the position he adopted in 2008.