Dmitry Medvedev Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Moscow and Western powers are on the brink of a new Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Medvedev said: “Basically we are slowly but surely approaching a second Cold War that nobody needs.” The Russian premier slammed US President Barack Obama’s response to the Ukraine crisis, saying he regretted that Washington had undone years of work in improving relations during the “reset” between |
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Oregon State athletic director Bob De Carolis announced on March 28 that head coach Craig Robinson would return for a seventh season as basketball coach, even penning a strongly worded letter of support for President Barack Obama’s brother-in-law.
The more De Carolis thought about it, the more he realized it was a mistake.
Reversing his course from five weeks earlier, De Carolis fired Robinson on Monday, ending the tenure of a coach who brought prestige to the u
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**FILE** President Obama walks with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the tarmac upon his arrival at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on May 29, 2013. (Associated Press)
Illinois wants President Obama’s museum and library in Chicago so badly that lawmakers are set to devote as much as $100 million in state funds
to securing the project.
An Illinois House committee on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of the $100 million expense, the Associated Press rep
Much has been made about new “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon’s supposed liberal inclinations, but Wednesday night he had no problem ripping Obamacare and needling President Obama over his handling of Ukraine.
Fallon’s humorous assault took the form of a fictional phone call between Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Look, don’t you see what you’re doing though? You’re forcing people to accept something that the majority of them don’t even want,” the actor playing Obama tells Putin,
President Barack Obama, the nation’s first basketball fan, took marker to bracket with ESPN again at the White House and selected Michigan State to defeat defending champion Louisville in the NCAA men’s tournament title game.
The path Obama took to arrive at his national champion, an event that has come to be known as “Barack-etology,” was revealed on SportsCenter at 9:30 a.m. ET Wednesday. It is the sixth consecutive year he’s made them with ESPN’s Andy Katz.
“Tom Izzo is a great tournament
Russian troops took over Crimea as the parliament in Moscow gave President Vladimir Putin a green light Saturday to use the military to protect Russian interests in Ukraine. The newly installed government in Kiev was powerless to react to the action by Russian troops based in the strategic region and more flown in, aided by pro-Russian Ukrainian groups.
Putin sought and quickly got his parliament’s approval to use its military to protect Russia’s interests across Ukraine. But wh
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President Obama said he was “deeply concerned” on Friday over reports that Russian troops are meddling in Ukraine as armed men took up positions in Ukraine’s Crimean region.
“We are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation inside Ukraine,” Obama said in brief comments at the White House. He added, “It would be a clear violation of Russia’s commitment to respect the independence and sovere
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is questioning President Barack Obama’s commitment to religious freedom in the United States.
The Obama administration continues pressing religious organizations and businesses to comply with Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate, even though it violates their religious beliefs.
Jindal said he was stunned to hear the president’s defense of international religious freedom at this month’s National Prayer Breakfast.
He contends Obama’s remarks about religious liberty ove
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President Barack Obama is going toe-to-toe with one of the NBA’s most dominating power forwards of all time — but the setting is the White House instead of the basketball court. Obama sat down Thursday for an interview with former NBA legend Charles Barkley that will air as part of the coverage of this weekend’s NBA All-Star Game. The “NBA on TNT” tweeted a picture of the all-star-turned-broadcaster and |
Pastor Saeed's wife, Naghmeh, joined Jordan Sekulow Friday on Jay Sekulow Live! to discuss President Obama's remarks Thursday calling on Iran to specifically release her husband and where the fight for his freedom moves from here.
She says she is thankful to the president for elevating her husband's plight and is hopeful that as momentum continues to build that Iran would grant her husband--a U.S. citizen--clemency and allow him to return home.
Click here to listen as she shares her emoti
President Obama’s State of the Union Address drew 33.3 million television viewers, the smallest audience he has had for the annual speech to Congress, Nielsen reported Wednesday.
The audience for Tuesday’s speech was slightly less than the 33.5 million who tuned into last year’s State of the Union, according to numbers supplied by Nielsen.
Thirteen networks broadcast Obama’s speech live: CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, Azteca, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CN
President Obama will partner with Google for the “first-ever Presidential Hangout Road Trip,” Google announced today.
“Next Tuesday, at 9pm EST, President Obama will deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress. Later that week, you’ll have the chance to connect with the President and speak about his administration’s plan in the first-ever Presidential Hangout Road Trip,” claims Google in a blog post.
But it would appear the “Road Trip” does not require the president to hit the ro
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The Secret Service visited with a Florida Republican running for the state assembly Tuesday after he tweeted that President Obama should be arrested and hanged.
Joshua Black, a candidate for state assembly in Florida’s 68th District, on Monday retweeted another person who wrote, “I’m past impeachment. It’s time to arrest and hang him high.”
“Agreed,” Black added to the end of the tweet.
“@civilwarcometh: @BrandonMArms @RedNationRisingI’m past impeachment. It’s time to arrest and h
US First Lady Michelle Obama smiles as President Barack Obama talks to members of the military and their families during a Christmas dinner in Anderson Hall at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on December 25, 2013. (Credit: AFP PHOTO/Jewel SAMAD, Getty)
Michelle Obama’s not just embracing her half-century milestone, she’s relishing it.
Describing herself as “50 and fabulous,” the “Let’s Move” creator is getting ready to move herself on Saturday — as in show off some dance move
Already no stranger to controversy, the Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Dallas megachurch pastor, is coming out with a book that claims President Barack Obama is clearing the way for the Antichrist.
Jeffress, head of the 11,000-member First Baptist Church of Dallas, writes in his bookPerfect Ending that he does not believe Obama is the Antichrist, yet he links Obama's support of gay marriage to the coming of the Antichrist. Many Christians believe Jesus' Second Coming will feature a confrontation wit
President Obama and his family with the Rev. Luis Leon at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington in October. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press)
President Obama celebrated a low-key Christmas in Hawaii this year. He sang carols, opened presents with his family, and visited a nearby military base to wish the troops "Mele Kalikimaka" -- the Hawaiian phrase meaning "Merry Christmas."
But the one thing the president and his family did not do -- something they have rarely done since he entere
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, along with daughters Malia (left) and Sasha, sing during the finale of TNT's "Christmas in Washington" on December 15, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Pool/Getty Images North America)
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Obama fought his lawyers early in his term to become the first president to use a BlackBerry. (AP Photo)
The troubled mobile phone maker BlackBerry still has at least one very loyal customer: U.S. President Barack Obama.
At a meeting with youth on Wednesday to promote his landmark healthcare law, Obama said he is not allowed to have Apple's smart phone, the iPhone, for "security reasons," though he still uses Apple's tablet computer, the iPad.
Apple was one of several tech companies that ma
President Obama will travel to South Africa next week to attend services for Nelson Mandela, the White House said Friday.(Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP)
"President Obama and the First Lady will go to South Africa next week to pay their respects to the memory of Nelson Mandela and to participate in memorial events," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
He did not say whether Obama would attend a large memorial service on Dec. 10 or a private burial service on Dec. 15, or both.
"We'll have further
Commander in Chief Barack Obama visited DreamWorks Animation campus in California recently and held a private briefing with many of entertainment's most powerful influencers. Among those in attendance was Disney chairman and chief executive Robert Iger. Obama, being the diehard sports fan that he is, made sure to sieze the opportunity to discuss his post-presidential aspirations.via the Hollywood Reporter:
At the end of the conversation -- which touched on a myriad of topics, from piracy to I
