COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)–President Donald Trump delivered his speech on criminal justice reform Friday at the Second Step Presidential Justice Forum in Columbia. The President received the Bipartisan Justice Award at the opening of the forum at Benedict College. During his address, President Trump discussed what he called the historic coalition that was founded to create criminal justice reform. You can…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Eight years after Hillary Clinton helped unite Democrats behind Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, he’s returning the favor. Obama and Clinton will make their first joint appearance of the 2016 campaign Tuesday in North Carolina, a state Democrats are eager to pull back into their win column in November. The two will be in Charlotte, North Carolina. The…
Getty Images President Obama said many businessmen in the U.S. aren’t exactly impressed with Donald Trump’s business acumen. “There’s no successful businessman in America who actually thinks the most successful businessman in the country is Donald Trump,” the president said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. “I know those guys, and so do you, and I guarantee you, that’s not…
President Barack Obama speaks in the White House briefing room in Washington, June 23, 2016, on the Supreme Court decision on immigration. Andrew Harnik/AP Photo President Barack Obama said today that the Supreme Court’s “heartbreaking” decision to block his immigration executive action “takes us further from the country that we aspire to be.” The court’s 4-4 deadlock lets stand a…
President Obama will announce his pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major reversal, the Obama administration says it will not allow oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement Tuesday on Twitter, declaring that the administration’s next five-year offshore drilling plan “protects the Atlantic for future generations.” The announcement reverses a proposal made last year in which the administration floated a…
President Barack Obama, with his daughters, Sasha, left, and Malia, speaks before he pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey Abe, Nov. 25, 2015, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Susan Walsh/AP Photo (ABC News) — President Obama held a frank discussion on race and body image, and shared his insight as a father and…
AP Photo (ABC News) — President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will pay their respects to the late Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court on Friday. “The president and the first lady on Friday will travel to the Supreme Court to pay their respects to Justice Scalia as he lies in repose there at the Supreme Court,”…
President Obama said today that he does not believe GOP frontrunner Donald Trump will make it to the White Hous
(ABC News) — President Obama said the “durable” U.S. economy has continued to grow this year despite what Republican presidential candidates have been claiming on the campaign trail. “I know that’s still inconvenient for Republican stump speeches as their doom and despair tour plays in New Hampshire. I guess you cannot please everybody,” Obama said. Employers added 151,000 new jobs…
