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During oral arguments on Tuesday at the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that ending DACA amnesty would destroy lives.

Pete Buttigieg wants to dismiss the “old normal” of politics and run as a change candidate, but the 37-year-old mayor is struggling to avoid including former President Barack Obama in that equation.

The Department of Justice has quietly told the Supreme Court that it has no authority to issue work permits to DACA migrants and has effectively invited the court to block the annual award of more than one million work permits to migrants.

A lot of “grown up male leaders” are scared of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Sunday, adding she finds it hard to understand the current state of politics.

A public art installment that is traveling around the United States made a two-day stop in Washington, DC, this week to promote immigration.

Audrey and Richard McIntosh are fighting to change the Title IX process in higher education after their son was expelled from college.

ABC is reportedly developing a new dramatic series inspired by the lives of young women who worked in the White House during the Barack Obama administration.

Former President Barack Obama may live a stone’s throw away from Virginia now, but his sway over the state’s political landscape came up short on Tuesday.

Finally, we may have solved the mystery of how former President Obama managed to drag the U.S. into the Paris Climate Accord – effectively a form of binding international treaty – without the necessary Congressional ratification.

Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations suggests is the likely so-called whistleblower, was part of an Obama administration email chain celebrating the eventual signing of a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to Ukraine.

Democrats swept into the majority in the Virginia state legislature, in both the House of Delegates and the State Senate, taking majorities in both in Tuesday’s elections.

The National Resources Defense Council announced on Tuesday that it hired former Environmental Protection Agency Adminstrator Gina McCarthy.

Trump ridiculed former Vice President Joe Biden again on Monday, pointing to his recent gaffes on the campaign trail. Trump imitated Biden campaign “handlers” yelling at him for all of his political gaffes.

The refugee inflow into the United States is set to be reduced by at least 40 percent for 2020 compared to this year’s admission totals, where 30,000 refugees were resettled across the nation.

A newly launched super PAC backing former Vice President Joe Biden is turning to one of his son’s lobbying colleagues to help run its operation.

“This country cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump,” Buttigieg said. “We will not recognize it if he gets reelected.”

“In the delusional democrat fantasy I am now supposed to be afraid of someone called one percent Joe,” Trump said.

A group of about 150 Buttigieg supporters flew from Iowa to California in hopes of creating an “Obama Moment” for their candidate.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addressed Joe Biden’s (D) critique of her Medicare for All plan, citing Obama in defense of her big government proposal and implying that the former vice president is repeating “Republican talking points”

Former first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that her husband, former President Barack Obama, could have built his presidential library anywhere in the world because many feel he is “their president.” 

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hardball” during a discussion with former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice, host Chris Matthews argued part of the reason Donald Trump was elected president was former President Barack Obama “was such a sterling character.”

Democrat presidential hopeful and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro asserted Wednesday that Democrats should not take the “safe route” in order to win back the White House.

President Trump’s plan to continue reducing refugee resettlement across the United States is “not warranted,” according to the pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of donor class organizations. 

The U.S. State Department this week agreed to comply with a federal judge’s order to produce documents related to President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine to a so-called watchdog group founded by former Obama administration officials.

Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes about the approaching $23 trillion federal debt and laments how no one seems to worry enough to do something about it. Ortiz suggests only a constitutional amendment will fix the problem.

Recode reports that donors must cough up $355,000 to support the event as a chair and $10,000 just to attend the reception scheduled for November 21.

Former first lady Michelle Obama condemned white people for fleeing minority neighborhoods just weeks after she and her husband purchased a $15 million estate in Martha’s Vineyard.

Hollywood director Ava DuVernay took offense to a parody video posted by TV host Jimmy Kimmel, which compared and contrasted President Trump’s announcement of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death to President Obama’s announcement of the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Former President Barack Obama derided the political left’s woke purists and the overall cancel culture during a talk Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, Illinois.

A 25-year union worker with Ford Motor Company says President Donald Trump is “the only person defending” American auto workers while 2020 Democrats propose an environmental agenda that will “destroy union jobs” for the middle class.

(AP) — When President Barack Obama was reelected in 2012, a Saudi tycoon and his business associate sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to the U.S. to help pay for the inaugural celebration and get a picture with the president, according to court documents and an analysis of campaign finance records by The Associated Press.

Several 2020 Democrat candidates omitted President Trump from their remarks on the U.S. raid that led to the death of ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Appearing Sunday on CBS’s Face the Nation, former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice said she was “quite confident” that the Trump administration did not follow the “normal protocol” of informing President Barack Obama about the weekend killing of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The parents of murdered American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller gave media interviews on Sunday and Monday in which they thanked President Donald Trump and the U.S. military for tracking down and killing Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the man who enslaved, raped, and killed their daughter.

Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell he had not received his former boss President Barack Obama’s nomination because he had asked him not to endorse him.

The vice chair of the Democrat National Committee (DNC) reportedly owes about $25,000 in back taxes to the state of New York.