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12 Jan 2015, 2:50 pm
(AP) A Wall Street banker nominated by President Barack Obama to be the third-ranking official at the Treasury Department has pulled out of contention for the post in the face of Democratic opposition. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 12:00 pm
’s traveling Bible has not gone on regular display since President Barack Obama used it while taking his second oath of office. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 10:55 am
“It’s stunning, truly stunning,” said Aaron David Miller, who among other responsibilities during his time at the State Department under both Republican and Democratic administrations, helped deliberate over which officials to send to which events. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 9:30 am
President Barack Obama is set to announce new legislation that aims to protect consumer privacy and student privacy and offer enhanced protection of home energy usage data, among other things. [read post]
11 Jan 2015, 8:26 pm
It noted, in the first sentence, that “United States President Barack Obama will not join other world leaders at Sunday’s Paris march in tribute to the victims of this week’s Islamist attacks in France, a US official told AFP,” though it included Holder as the representative of the U.S. [read post]
10 Jan 2015, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] A White House official on Saturday announced that President Barack Obama [official profile] plans to address cybersecurity as it relates to American consumers and businesses next week. [read post]
10 Jan 2015, 6:25 am
They're first-term Senators, as was Barack Obama. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 1:51 pm
Although Barack Obama ran for president based on a promise to close the Guantánamo detention facility, his administration's efforts to carry out that promise have come only in fits and starts. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 4:38 pm
"States Fight Obama's Claim Immigration Order Is Unreviewable": Laurel Brubaker Calkins of Bloomberg News has a report that begins, "Twenty-five states' top lawyers blasted the federal government's claim that President Barack Obama's executive order letting more than 4 million undocumented immigrants stay in the U.S. is above judicial review. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 12:30 pm
World leaders responded to the attack with an outpouring of sympathy and support, but Josh Gerstein notes that President Barack Obama’s defense of free expression following the shooting spree came in “sharp contrast to his more tepid response to previous attacks involving issues of religion and free speech. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 5:51 am
President Barack Obama’s 2014 executive action on immigration protects millions of families in the US but leaves major rights concerns unaddressed, Human Rights Watch said today. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 5:40 am
[JURIST] A White Huse [official website] spokesperson said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama would veto proposed legislation [statement, PDF] that would reinstate the 40-hour work week requirement for employer health care coverage. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 2:57 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency said it will delay carbon rules for power plants, missing a deadline set by President Barack Obama in one of the centerpieces of his climate-change agenda. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 3:28 am
(Kane, 1/4) The Associated Press: New GOP Senate Chairmen Aim To Undo Obama Policies Republican senators poised to lead major committees when the GOP takes charge are intent on pushing back many of President Barack Obama's policies, ... [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 9:03 am
The blast prompted President Barack Obama to order departments and agencies to beef up chemical safety rules. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 10:47 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Monday implored [letter] US President Barack Obama [official profile] to press Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto [official profile] on human rights concerns during his upcoming meeting with the leader. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 9:52 am
Has Barack Obama finally learned a belated lesson from his second midterm debacle? [read post]
4 Jan 2015, 4:27 pm
When President Barack Obama and Pope Francis met, they mostly talked about inequality. [read post]
4 Jan 2015, 10:45 am
The US is lobbing fresh sanctions against North Korea as a response to the cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment even as President Barack Obama's administration refuses to provide evidence of Pyongyang's involvement. [read post]
31 Dec 2014, 2:04 pm
From the Associated Press: Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the nation's leading grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama's executive action to block some 5 million... [read post]
