The White House touted what it called unexpected economic growth in a new report Thursday, as officials brushed aside the idea that the Obama administration should be given credit for the longest expansion on record.
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In an effort to keep above the fray in the 2016 presidential election, former President Barack Obama failed to take actions that would have warned the public about the threat of Russian interference, a bipartisan report found Thursday.
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The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday sided with Republican opponents of the Affordable Care Act, finding that the individual mandate tax penalty zeroed out by Congress two years ago is unconstitutional, but it declined to invalidate the entire law.
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Nearly 10 years after its passage, the landmark health care legislation commonly called Obamacare continues to divide Americans according to a new poll.
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A federal court judge in Washington found President Barack Obama’s expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument invalid on Tuesday, contradicting an earlier ruling by a federal judge in Oregon and setting the stage for a judicial showdown.
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Ozone standards established under former President Barack Obama will mostly remain in place after the D.C. Circuit rejected claims Friday by major energy industry players who said existing pollution regulations were too hard to follow.
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Taking up what could be a key case for the next term, the Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether the government owes $12 billion to insurance companies that lost money as the health care law overhaul known as the Affordable Care Act.
Read moreSenate Republicans lambasted the previous administration’s water regulations as a federal power grab Wednesday in a hearing on the new policy rolled out by President Donald Trump.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former CBS News investigative reporter claiming she was spied on by the Obama administration.
Read moreThe man who served as White House counsel under former President Barack Obama pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of lying to the federal government about work he and his firm did for the Ukrainian government that was linked to former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.
Read moreFormer Obama administration White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be charged in a foreign lobbying investigation spun off from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, his attorneys said.
Read moreAfter systematically targeting immigration, health care, foreign policy and the environment — key policies of former President Barack Obama — the Trump administration took aim last year at the former first lady’s signature accomplishment: healthy school breakfast and lunches.
Read moreTaking on a Obama-era regulation meant to stop global warming, the EPA joined chemical makers Friday in urging the D.C. Circuit to throw out strict limits on greenhouse gas-emitting hydrofluorocarbons.
Read moreIn a bid to shift the focus on Russian political meddling, House Republicans called Tuesday for access to briefings on the 2016 election conducted by members of the Obama administration.
Read moreThe Office of Management and Budget must reinstate an Obama-era rule that will require employers to disclose equal pay data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreA federal judge blocked the Education Department on Monday from dismantling an Obama-era regulation intended to protect student-loan borrowers from predatory lending practices.
Read moreAs protesters chanted outside the courthouse, a federal judge in Texas heard arguments Wednesday over whether to block Obamacare as Texas’ lawsuit to invalidate the health care law on a technicality moves forward.
Read moreTexas waited nearly six years to bring a court challenge of Deferred Action for Early Childhood Arrivals, which shields some immigrants from deportation, so its motion to immediately end the program fails, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Read moreRuling against the Trump White House on Thursday, a federal judge in South Carolina reinstated Obama administration Clean Water Act regulations in 26 states.
Read moreTwo dozen kids who claim the federal government knowingly created climate change have cleared the final barrier to trial: the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to intervene, calling the government’s request for a stay of the trial “premature.”
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