One of the major perks of being the president of a country is getting a special screening ahead of what considers to be the favorite of most HBO series’ fans for a brand new season.
While his presidency has often been described as post-racial, events have sometimes occurred that forced President Barack Obama to speak directly on race, with varying degrees of elegance and success. On Thursday, however, Obama purposefully announced an intensely personal initiative he called "My Brother's Keeper."
Many republicans suggest tabling reform until next year because it will not benefit them in the 2014 elections; as many House Republicans reside over white-majority districts.
Boehner’s own party responded to his proposal with displeasure –and the plan has deeply divided the House’s 218 Republicans, who’ve failed to unify over a strategy. Mixed reception is perhaps why Boehner is reluctant to press ahead.
President Obama has signed a Farm Bill into law that gives a lot of hope to the embattled agricultural industry of the United States...but in so doing, the measure has cut food stamps given to many people, including low-income New Yorkers, who saw their food budget cut as high as $90 per month.
It was a busy week on social media: Facebook announced its continuing dominance and a new mobile app, Tumblr incorporated comedy into its terms of service, Twitter got IBM off its back, and President Obama used the most disliked social media platform to popularize his State of the Union agenda. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Openly Gay NBA Player Jason Collins and Boston Marathon Bombing survivors Carlos Arrendondo and Jeff Bauman will be among the guests attending President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address on Tuesday, the White House reported.
According to a recent poll the majority of American voters say they are unhappy with how the president is handling what they believe are the highest priority issues facing the country. However, if Obama can rearrange his priorities and fix the current situation in a few key areas pollsters say his approval ratings may increase for 2014.
Although the alcohol prohibition era has long since come to an end, marijuana prohibition remains intact since its inception in 1932 with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act.
President Obama's choice to lead the Small Business Administration (SBA), an agency that provides contracts and loans to help small business gain government contracts, is former California official Maria Contretras-Sweet. Her official nomination was announced at a White House event last Thursday. She is the second Hispanic nomination to Obama's second-term cabinet, preceded by Labor Secretary Tom Perez. And, she will be the eighth woman in Obama's current cabinet.
Following the passage of a bill last week by a city council committee in Washington D.C. that brought the nation’s capital a step closer to decriminalizing marijuana, President Obama voiced publicly his opinion that it’s important for the legalization of marijuana to go forward.
Internet rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation took the trouble to "score" President Obama's promises on reforming the National Security Agency's snooping practices.
After ex-contractor Edward Snowden's leaks sparked months of revelations about the National Security Agency's collection of U.S. phone records, as well as a breadth of other sweeping NSA surveillance programs, President Barack Obama spoke on Friday about changes he plans to make to the agency's mass data collection policies.
Gallup polls Americans each year to measure public admiration of noteworthy individuals worldwide. This year President Barack Obama took first place in the men’s category, while former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came in at the top spot for females, both of them winning by landslides.
President Obama pardoned or commuted the sentences of several non-violent drug offenders on Thursday, highlighting the consequences of the US war on drugs.
Considering Nelson Mandela's reputation as a people person, the announcement that his funeral on Sunday will be private has angered some South Africans who hoped to join the ceremony.
The latest viral controversial picture that has been rounding social media sites online is the President Obama selfie shot during a Nelson Mandela memorial service along with other world leaders like British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
More than 90 world leaders from across the globe traveled to South Africa for Nelson Mandela's memorial service, which was as peaceful as the late South African icon would have wanted it to be
Dubbed "a pioneer of Latin rock 'n' roll," Mexican-American Carlos Santana and renown Puerto Rican opera singer and Harlem native, Martina Arroyo, were among the five Kennedy Center Honorees, which is considered "the nation's highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts."
Standing before a soaking-wet Washington DC crowd, President Barack Obama danced with an elf and remembered Nelson Mandela as he lit the National Christmas Tree yesterday.
