Barack Obama

Though this year has been unprecedented in many ways, one thing that has remained constant is former President Barack Obama's tradition of sharing his year-end lists of his favorite books, films and music. Obama took to Twitter on Saturday to share hi...

Just before President Barack Obama left office, he made it easier for students defrauded by for-profit colleges to apply for the federal debt relief they had long been entitled to. But the Trump administration, which disagrees with the policy, allowed a m...

Former President Barack Obama appeared in three digital campaign ads urging Georgians to vote for Rev. Raphael Warnock ahead of the Senate runoff election in January. "If we want Joe Biden to succeed in tackling this virus and getting folks back to wo...

In a year that saw many traditions upended, former President Barack Obama is keeping up with one annual custom: sharing his favorite books of the year. The former President, in a Twitter post Thursday, highlighted 17 titles — including Isabel Wilker...

President-elect Joe Biden is poised to tap Denis McDonough to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, a person familiar with the decision says, adding the longtime chief of staff to former President Barack Obama to his new Cabinet. It's the latest ex...

Former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to get their Covid-19 vaccines on camera to promote public confidence in the vaccine's safety once the US Food and Drug Administration authorizes one. The three most rece...

Jeffrey Zients is President-elect Joe Biden's choice to be the White House coronavirus coordinator, or "czar," a source familiar tells CNN. Zients, a top economic adviser under President Barack Obama and a co-chair of Biden's transition te...

Former President Barack Obama said he "absolutely" plans on getting a Covid-19 vaccine when it's available and added that he may end up taking it on video to promote public confidence. Obama, in an interview with SiriusXM host Joe Madison sche...

Former President Barack Obama cautioned young activists against using the slogan "defund the police" to achieve changes in policing practices, instead urging them in a new interview to have a more inclusive discussion to better enact changes. In d...

Former President Barack Obama is prominently featured in a new television ad for Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff, pitching him as an injustice-fighting crusader who will pass a new Voting Rights Act and "listen to the experts" in co...

Barack Obama is well on his way to becoming the best selling author of the year. It is a title previously bestowed on his wife, Michelle Obama, whose book "Becoming" rocketed to the top of the charts in 2018. Now the former president's new mem...

Kathleen Sebelius, a former Health and Human Services secretary under President Barack Obama, offered some praise for the Trump administration's vaccine efforts on Monday but said the administration has shirked other critical responsibilities in mitig...

Barack Obama's new memoir is out tomorrow, and he's using the book tour to talk about his hopes and despair in a deeply divided nation. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On With Your Day. Here's what you need to know...

A version of this article first appeared in the "Reliable Sources" newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. When Barack Obama and his editors at Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing picked this week to publish the first volume of hi...

Barack Obama directly confronts the racist politics of President Donald Trump in the first volume of his post-presidency memoir, bluntly suggesting how he believes his historic election in 2008 opened a wave of bitter and divisive turmoil that fueled Repu...

Former President Barack Obama said the election results, in which each candidates received more than 70 million votes, show the nation remains bitterly split. "What it says is that we are still deeply divided. The power of that alternative worldview t...

Former President Barack Obama slammed Republican officials for condoning President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud in the wake of his loss to Joe Biden, saying in an interview clip released Thursday that such allegations endangered democ...

Barack Obama directly confronts the racist politics of President Donald Trump in the first volume of his post-presidency memoir, bluntly suggesting how he believes his historic election in 2008 opened a wave of bitter and divisive turmoil that fueled Repu...

On November 10, 2016, President Barack Obama invited Donald Trump, then President-elect, to the White House. No such invitation has been extended to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. The meeting between sitting presidents a...

Nota del editor: David Axelrod, comentarista poltico de CNN y presentador de The Axe Files, fue asesor principal del presidente Barack Obama y estratega jefe de las campaas presidenciales de Obama en 2008 y 2012. Las opiniones expresadas en este comentari...

Click here for updates on this story GEORGIA, USA (WGCL) — Former President Barack Obama will campaign in Atlanta Monday afternoon to promote Former VP and Presidential candidate Joe Biden as well as other Democrats looking to flip Georgia. Obama is...

Joe Biden's campaign is dispatching former President Barack Obama to Atlanta on Monday in a bid to finish Democrats' four-year project of turning Georgia blue. The state is one of three in the Southeast — along with Florida and North Carolin...

Barack Obama called game. The former President showed he can still get buckets, swishing a corner three-pointer at a Flint, Michigan, gym on Saturday while on the campaign trail for Joe Biden, his former vice president. "That's what I do," Oba...

Barack Obama called game. The former President showed he can still get buckets, swishing a corner three-pointer at a Flint, Michigan, gym on Saturday while on the campaign trail for Joe Biden, his former vice president. "That's what I do," Oba...

Barack Obama will offer his one-time vice president, Joe Biden, a "personal testimonial" during their first joint event of the campaign on Saturday, an Obama aide told CNN, thrusting the former president into the role of character witness to the D...

Warren Buffett has been surprisingly quiet about the presidential election. The Oracle of Omaha hasn't publicly backed Joe Biden, but Buffett hosted a fundraiser for Biden's former boss, Barack Obama, in 2011, and he fully backed Hillary Clinton i...

Barack Obama held back his most biting critiques of President Donald Trump in the first years of his post-presidency, hoping the lack of constant attacks would make his voice even more powerful at a time he thought it was most needed. That time, Obama bel...

Former President Barack Obama is set to join Democratic nominee Joe Biden on the campaign trail during the final weekend of the election season, two people familiar with the plans told CNN. The two will appear together in a key battleground state, the peo...

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered blistering criticism of President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the economy. "More than 225,000 people in this country are dead. More than 100,000 small businesses have clo...

Former President Barack Obama detailed the early challenges on the path to passing his historic health care legislation in an excerpt of his forthcoming memoir published in The New Yorker Monday. In "A Promised Land," Obama wrote about what influe...

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday laced into President Donald Trump, describing his successor as a thin-skinned bully whose true weakness was revealed when he walked off the set of a high profile interview this week after being faced with a few pr...

Former President Barack Obama delivered an often-incredulous and blistering account of his successor's first four years in office on Wednesday in Philadelphia, making his most direct attacks on President Donald Trump to date both on substance and on a...

Former President Barack Obama delivered a blistering account of his successor's first four years in office on Wednesday in Philadelphia, arguing that President Donald Trump has proved he is "incapable of taking the job seriously" and has shown...

Barack Obama had always intended to sit out the first presidential election of his post-presidency, taking heed of the private guidance given to him from Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. Obama vastly preferred governing to campaigning, his ...

Former President Barack Obama told young Americans their generation "can be the one that creates a new normal in America" in a video message released Tuesday evening before he hits the campaign trail for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. "Hey, eve...

Former President Barack Obama skewered the state of America's media ecosystem, lamenting the fact that wild conspiracy theories such as QAnon have found haven in the Republican Party and calling out Fox News for its role in corrupting the public conve...

President Donald Trump is no stranger to conspiracy theories. Before Trump was even elected, he spent years pushing birther lies about President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States. This week he amplified articles and videos promo...

Former President Barack Obama said Wednesday that President Donald Trump lacks the needed "patience" and "focus" to make substantial changes to American foreign policy, previewing a possible attack line as the former President prepares to ...

The hackers who took over Twitter accounts belonging to Barack Obama and Elon Musk for several hours this summer gained entry into Twitter's internal systems simply by posing as company IT officials making a support call, according to an investigative...

Former President Barack Obama is expected to hit the campaign trail next week, Democratic officials tell CNN, as he looks to step up his work in support of his one-time partner — former Vice President Joe Biden — in the final stretch of the el...

Barack Obama is urging Americans in 24 key states to vote in his latest foray into the 2020 election, stressing in new digital videos released by the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday the need for voters to make plans for casting their ballots. The...

Former President Barack Obama wished President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump good care and "a speedy recovery" on Friday after they were diagnosed with Covid-19. "Let me start by the way, by just stating that we're in the midst...

Instagram and Facebook have been hounding people for weeks to register to vote in the 2020 election with prominent information boxes. Snapchat tapped Barack Obama, Snoop Dogg and Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote voter registration on its app. Twitter sent...

Chris Lands is filled with regret. The 34-year-old United Auto Workers union member broke with eight years of supporting Barack Obama and Joe Biden and decided to vote for Donald Trump in 2016, believing the Republican's promises to bring manufacturin...

Former President Barack Obama urged voters to focus on down-ballot races in new remarks published Thursday, arguing that while the presidential race gets the most attention, it is down-ballot races that could have the greatest impact on politically-motiva...

This week, former President Barack Obama shared something quite personal with millions of his social media followers. It was a number a phone number to be exact — with a simple message from the former President: text me. Before we get to what happen...

Sen. Cory Gardner was blunt in 2016 about why he thought a Supreme Court seat should stay vacant despite then-President Barack Obama's demand to fill it. "The next election is too soon, and the stakes too high," Gardner, a Republican from Colo...

Former President Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, calling on Senate Republicans to follow the precedent set when they refused to consider his Supreme Court nominee in 2016 and not consider a replacement for...

Former President Barack Obama's long-awaited presidential memoir is coming this year — but not until after the November election. A flood of hot-selling political books have hit shelves in recent weeks in the run-up to the election. Readers will...

Before Donald Trump ever sought the Oval Office, he was preoccupied by its occupant President Barack Obama, publicly questioning his birthplace and privately describing him as "a Manchurian candidate" who obtained his Ivy League degrees only by wa...