The Wall Street Journal
| May 16, 2013
President Obama, speaking at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says that Turkey and the U.S. agree that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad must give up power to a transitional government.
PBS NewsHour
| May 15, 2013
The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service has stepped down after he was ordered to resign following the controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative political groups, President Obama announced today. The "misconduct i...
PBS NewsHour
| May 13, 2013
President Barack Obama held a joint press conference in Washington with British Prime Minister David Cameron as the men prepare for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland. In a wide-ranging discussion, Obama slammed as "outrageous" alleged IRS selectiv...
Reuters
| May 13, 2013
Turkish officials are charging that twin car bombs that killed 46 people in the border town of Reyhanli were brought in from Syria, and are calling on the international community to take action against the nation. Police have busted nine men they ...
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MBC
| May 10, 2013
US President Barack Obama hosted South Korean President Park Geun-hye in her first visit to the US since becoming South Korea's first woman president. South Korean broadcaster MBC takes a look at what the presidents discussed, including the tricky...
Democracy Now!
| May 7, 2013
As the US edges toward increased intervention in Syria, long-time Mideast correspondent Robert Fisk tells Democracy Now! of his recent encounters with the Syrian army, a "ruthless" organization whose troops are racking up kills and take no prisone...
Euronews
| May 3, 2013
Washington is wrestling with a moral-political-military equation over Syria. The question is how, if at all, Americans might support getting involved. President Obama's warning still stands: if Damascus uses -- or has used -- chemical weapons, it...
CNN
| May 1, 2013
The Pentagon is fine-tuning military options in Syria in the wake of reports of suspected use of chemical weapons, according to CNN. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wants specific plans to present to President Obama should he decide to move against ...
PBS NewsHour
| Apr 30, 2013
President Obama emphasized in a wide-ranging press conference today that he would consider action against Syria only if it can be absoutely confirmed that the government used chemical weapons. He also defended the FBI's work in monitoring the acti...
Associated Press
| Apr 28, 2013
President Obama admitted he's not the "strapping young Muslim socialist" he used to be in his first term, elicting broad guffaws from entertained journalists at the White House Correspondents' dinner over the weekend. So, he's taking a page from M...
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...groups and lobbyists to influence his policies. However, he regularly has granted exclusive White House access to his biggest donors, who bring ...
— Feb 2 at 11:04 pm
...of suspects both here and abroad. Meanwhile, President Obama has stepped up the use of unmanned drones against suspected terrorists abroad, not ...
Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama served as a U.S. Senator representing the state of Illinois from January 2005 to November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
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