Barack Obama says globalization will continue growing rapidly, signaling the unstoppable march of progress. But he warned that nations who allow the wealthy to enjoy the benefits of globalism face challenges from their populace. Those people, he noted, were falling prey to an “alternative” narrative, propagated to fuel opposition.
Democratic presidential candidate reappeared on the campaign trail and delivered a speech after taking three days off following her collapse in New York City.
Hillary Clinton arrived 37 minutes late for her speech to the American Legion conference in Cincinnati today, after rocking the night away at a fundraiser with Jimmy Buffett, Paul McCartney, and Jon Bon Jovi in the Hamptons in New York.
Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton doesn’t quit — even when she is repeatedly heckled by Democratic opponents.
“This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn’t really jive with the experience of most people,” Obama says.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Seema Mehta, a Los Angeles Times correspondent covering fact-checkers during Donald Trump’s speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday evening, had to report his crime statistics as “mostly accurate.”
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Investor Tom Barrack departed from his prepared text on Thursday evening to tell the Republican National Convention about the personal side of Donald Trump’s life, focusing on his love for ordinary people and America.
There is one line the convention, and the country, need to hear Trump say in his speech: “I forgive Ted Cruz.”
After Ted Cruz’s stunning refusal to back Donald Trump in his address to the Republican National Convention on Wednesday evening, Trump emerged from the wings, smiling and applauding as he waved to the crowd. Later, he tweeted that he had seen the speech beforehand, and let Cruz deliver it anyway.
Donald Trump’s speech Wednesday morning did more than attack rival Hillary Clinton over her corruption and her foreign policy record. It also laid out a clear choice for voters between the status quo in Washington, and a unique chance for change.
Former IDF lieutenant-colonel and current director of the American Jewish Committee Jerusalem office, Avital Leibovich, was bombarded by some dozen pro-Palestinian activists while giving a speech about social media on Tuesday afternoon in Washington, DC.
President Barack Obama delivered a pious anti-war address in Hiroshima highlighting “humanity’s core contradiction” of war, lamenting that humanity tried to justify war because of religion.
Islam is a “criminal” ideology which deserves to be ranked with “Nazism, fascism and communism”, is “incompatible with the principles of European law” and, like its totalitarian predecessors, must inevitably be defeated. So argues Czech lawyer, activist and politician Klára Samková in
Ted Cruz faced yet another cold welcome at Thursday’s New York State Republican Gala, as tables of attendees can be seen in an online video ignoring the Texas senator’s speech.
President Obama says he is watching the media’s reporting on the rise of Donald Trump and he is not pleased with its performance.
President Obama is urging Americans and Cubans to forget their differences and historical conflicts.
Senator Marco Rubio took the stage in Des Moines Iowa today after support for his campaign turned out to be better than expected in the state.
Members of Congress quickly gave President Obama a standing ovation after he denounced bigotry in the United States, specifically citing freedom of religion–an obvious challenge to presidential candidate Donald Trump after he proposed a conditional ban on Muslims entering the United States.
On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) delivered a strident speech on the Senate floor supporting the Iran nuclear deal. The speech is very important, for three reasons. First, Durbin is one of the Senate’s most powerful Democrats. Second, Durbin owes
The likely 2016 presidential candidate who believes it takes a village to raise a child is now proposing “camps for adults.” Hillary Clinton is worried about America’s “fun deficit,” not our deficit-deficit, and told group gathered for a speech that “We really need camps for adults.”
President Barack Obama took a stab at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Reuters on Monday, on the eve of Netanyahu’s controversial speech to a special joint session of Congress on Tuesday morning. Obama said that Netanyahu “made all sorts of claims” about the interim nuclear deal with Iran that turned out to be untrue. Yet Obama mischaracterized Netanyahu’s remarks, and misrepresented Iranian compliance with the terms of the interim deal.
In a surprising editorial, the Los Angeles Times, usually in lockstep with Obama Administration policy, writes that whatever the circumstances were that preceded Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to Congress Tuesday, members of Congress should not boycott the speech, but listen to what Netanyahu has to say.
Much of the Congressional Black Caucus has decided to ignore Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress about the impending Iranian nuclear threat, insisting that their insult is justified by what they call Netanyahu’s ”disrespect” of Barack Obama.
House Democrats, knowing their primary allegiance is to Barack Obama, met Wednesday with Israeli officials in an attempt to forestall Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to Congress about a nuclear Iran.
During his State of the Union address, Obama recalled his glorious 2004 speech in Boston at the Democratic National Convention that nominated Sen. John Kerry for president.
