Former President Barack Obama headlined a virtual rally Friday afternoon to campaign for a pair of Georgia Democrats ahead of the state’s critical Senate runoff election, telling voters the results will shape the Biden presidency.
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Marking his first in-person campaign event of 2020, former President Barack Obama pressed Philadelphians to vote at a drive-in car rally outside Lincoln Financial Field Wednesday night.
Read moreThe Obama Presidential Center can occupy 20 acres of public land in Chicago’s Jackson Park, the Seventh Circuit ruled, finding the plaintiffs who wish to stop the project do not have a property interest in the land and that the center, with its museum, library, gardens and more, is a use of the land with public benefits.
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Former President Barack Obama warned Democrats against being “complacent or smug” about the presidential race at a grassroots fundraiser Tuesday for Joe Biden, calling on them to learn the lessons from 2016 and not take the election for granted.
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Former President Barack Obama is taking an increasingly public role as the nation confronts a confluence of historic crises that has exposed deep racial and socioeconomic inequalities in America and reshaped the November election.
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The Seventh Circuit was skeptical Thursday of a parks advocacy organization’s arguments opposing the construction of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago’s Jackson Park, in a case that has left many supporters of the former president bewildered and angry.
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Former President Barack Obama endorsed Joe Biden for the nation’s highest office Tuesday, saying his vice president is the best candidate to lead America through these unprecedented times.
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Former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump tied for most admired man of 2019 in a Gallup poll released Monday, while former first lady Michelle Obama claimed the title of most admired woman of the year.
Read moreJulia Ann Poff, 48, of Brookshire, Texas was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for sending a mail bomb to former President Barack Obama and other officials, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston said.
Read moreIt wasn’t too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as “power grabs” and a “basic disaster.”
Read moreA Texas woman charged with mailing a homemade bomb in 2016 to then-President Barack Obama, implicated when FBI agents matched a hair that was found on the package’s address label to her cat, pleaded guilty Monday.
Read moreA federal judge threw out a challenge by Protect Our Parks to the construction of the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago’s Jackson Park.
Read moreThe city of Los Angeles announced Tuesday it will rename a 3.5-mile section of Rodeo Boulevard from Culver City to midtown Obama Boulevard to honor the 44th U.S. president.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit over the construction of former President Barack Obama’s presidential library in a Chicago park will proceed, denying in part a city attorneys’ motion to dismiss the suit.
Read moreOdds may still favor the eventual construction of former President Barack Obama’s $500 million museum and library in a public park along Chicago’s lakeshore, but it’s no longer a sure thing in the face of a formidable legal challenge by a parks advocacy group.
Read moreA former history teacher at Huntington High School claims in a federal complaint that she was fired for using her personal Twitter account to tweet and retweet anti-Muslim comments, including calling President Obama a “Muslim douchebag” and calling Muslims “the enemy.”
Read moreA Texas federal judge who controversially invalidated the Affordable Care Act two weeks ago agreed late Sunday to allow the law to stand while his ruling is appealed, citing “great uncertainty” for those seeking health care coverage.
Read moreA Texas federal judge ruled Friday night that the Affordable Care Act is invalid due to last year’s tax cuts removing the individual mandate tax penalty, handing Republican critics their largest victory yet against the controversial law.
Read moreA federal judge in Texas ruled President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act “invalid” Friday, the eve of the sign-up deadline for coverage next year.
Read moreFighting through rancor-filled heckles, former President Barack Obama made a final push for Florida’s Democratic candidates during a Friday speech that decried nationalist rabble-rousing and touted the Affordable Care Act.
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