The Washington Times Online Edition
Barack Obama

Topic - Barack Obama

Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOM
Related Stories
  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

    CURL: Hillary Clinton will be the 2012 veep candidate

    Show of hands: Who here still thinks Vice President Joseph R. Biden will be on the 2012 ticket? Really? All of you? So wrong.

  • President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising event Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    Obama, Romney use states' rights as they see fit

    The 10th Amendment, the amendment supposedly reserving for the states all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government, gets a lot of rhetorical love on the campaign trail.

  • French President Francois Hollande, left, listens as U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the start of the first working session of the G-8 Summit at Camp David, Md., Saturday, May 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)

    G-8 leaders hope Greece remains in eurozone

    President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain in the Eurozone, anxious to keep its economic troubles from spreading around the world. The leaders said all of the nations have an interest in the success of efforts to strengthen the eurozone and help Europe's economy grow.

  • ** FILE ** In this May 8, 2012, file photo, openly gay Sen. Pat Steadman, right, D-Denver, embraces gay Sen. Lucia Guzman, D-Denver, at a rally in support of Civil Unions at the Capitol in Denver, as Senate President Brandon Shaffer is pictured in the background. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

    In Colorado, same-sex marriage remains a hot issue

    Minutes after President Barack Obama announced he supported gay marriage, the Democratic governor of Colorado choked back tears in Denver as he ordered state lawmakers to reconsider a civil-unions measure that Republicans had defeated the day before.

  • ** FILE ** In this May 14, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraiser hosted by singer Ricky Martin and the LGBT Leadership Council at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

    Early political spats suggest nothing off-limits

    The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate be far behind?

  • Disco Queen Donna Summer endured after era faded

    Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty _ the Queen of Disco.

  • ** FILE ** A Sri Lankan boy supporting President Mahinda Rajapaksha holds his poster as they rally around the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

    Clinton urges Sri Lanka to prosecute war criminals

    Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris on Friday apprised Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of the steps his government is taking to hold accountable those responsible for committing war crimes during a three decade-long war with Tamil rebels.

  • Holder

    House GOP leaders order Holder to cooperate on gun-running probe

    House Republican leaders on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. demanding he comply with the GOP's official investigation into Obama administration gun-running operation Fast & Furious, which allowed hundreds of guns to be sneaked across the border to Mexican cartels.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    WOLF: A better 'gay agenda'

    Americans are suffering under Barack Obama's rule, and our republic faces an existential challenge. Federal spending is out of control, and Democrats refuse even to pass a budget. America's credit rating has been downgraded, and a debt crisis looms.

  • Disco Queen Donna Summer dies at 63

    Like the King of Pop or the Queen of Soul, Donna Summer was bestowed a title fitting of musical royalty _ the Queen of Disco.

  • ** FILE ** In this May 8, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Obama to tout $3B pledge for food security

    President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world's biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises.

  • The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, pastor emeritus of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, speaks in Jackson, Miss., on Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

    KUHNER: Jeremiah Wright can sink Obama

    He's back. And this time, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright threatens to engulf President Obama in a major scandal - one that could doom his re-election. Edward Klein in his recent biography of Mr. Obama, "The Amateur," interviewed Mr. Wright about the president's past.

  • Larry King says talk show to resume this summer

    Larry King said Thursday that his talk show will resume this summer on the new digital network Ora.TV, earlier than he or the network had anticipated.

  • Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gestures while speaking to reporters on the tarmac after arriving in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, May 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    Romney close to Obama in fundraising

    Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's fundraising is going so well that people are literally trying to tuck checks into his pocket on the campaign trail.

  • **FILE** A guard tower is seen behind the wire fence that surrounds California's Folsom State Prison, about 20 miles outside Sacramento. (Associated Press)

    Justice: Prisons to step up anti-rape efforts

    The Obama administration is ordering federal, state and local prisons to increase efforts to stop prison rape by issuing mandatory screening, enforcement and prevention regulations in hopes of reducing sexual victimization behind bars.

More Stories →

Quotations
  • President Barack Obama stressed the point this week, saying: "So let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, but we need to make sure that it stays that way."

    Expect to pay more at the plate for shrimp →

  • President Obama said the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes."

Happening Now