Tag: Obama

2020 tests if Dems can win enough black voters without Obama

DETROIT: When Barack Obama was on the ballot in 2008 and 2012, there was no question that Terrance Holmes would vote for the first...

Trump asks Supreme Court to wind down ‘Dreamer’ immigration programme

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow it to end a programme introduced by former president Barack...

Trump calls for more civility in politics after suspect packages

President Donald Trump has called on people to be more civil in politics, after a series of suspected explosives were sent to high-profile US...

Only US govt can be sued over climate: judge

OREGON: A federal judge ruled on Monday that a lawsuit against the federal government filed by a group of American children over lack of...

Trump faults Obama for US response to Russian hacking

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Saturday tried to blame the Obama administration for not responding aggressively enough to Russian hacking of Democratic targets in...

Obama in talks to create shows for Netflix

CHICAGO: Former US president Barack Obama is in advanced talks with Netflix Inc to produce a series of high-profile shows, the New York Times reported,...

Trump, like Obama, lies to Turkey about Kurdish forces, says Erdogan

ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused former US President Donald Trump and his predecessor Barrack Obama of not fulfilling the promise they'd made to...

Cameron thought Obama was ‘narcissist’, says Steve Hilton

LONDON: David Cameron’s former director of strategy has said Cameron thought Barack Obama was one of the “most narcissistic, self-absorbed people” he had ever...

Obama to be the first guest on David Letterman’s new Netflix...

Veteran former US talk show host David Letterman will return to television on January 12 in a new Netflix show where his first guest...

Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Exit West’ one of Obama’s best books of 2017

Former US president Barack Obama included Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West in his list of best books he read in 2017. In a social...

Obama warns of social media dangers, in interview with Prince Harry

Former US President Barack Obama told Britain's Prince Harry he was concerned social media was “corroding civil discourse”, in what he said was his...

North Korea ‘directly responsible’ for global cyber-attack: US

WASHINGTON: The US administration has said North Korea was "directly responsible" for the WannaCry malware attack affecting hospitals, businesses and banks across the world...

Pakistan was not aware of Osama bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad:...

NEW DELHI: Former United States president Barack Obama said that there is no evidence that the Pakistan government was aware of the presence of...

George HW Bush becomes the longest-living president

Former President George H.W. Bush reached another milestone Saturday when he became the longest-living commander-in-chief in U.S. history. Bush, who was born on June 12,...

Obama wishes Joe Biden happy birthday with meme

The Obama-Biden bromance has been celebrated and loved by all. On Joe Biden’s birthday this year, former US President Barack Obama celebrated his birthday by...

‘Obama’ photo book tops US best-sellers list

Former White House photographer Pete Souza’s behind-the-scenes book “Obama” topped the US non-fiction bestsellers chart. Other books on the list included: “The Midnight Line” by...

Obama climate envoy slams Trump’s rejection of Paris Agreement

  BONN: The Obama-era official who helped deliver the 2015 Paris Agreement, lashed out Thursday at the Donald Trump administration’s “wrongheaded” decision to abandon the...