Barack Obama

WATCH LIVE: Barack and Michelle Obama open Obama Presidential Center with Springsteen, Stevie Wonder

By Scott Bauer, Associated Press

News Wrap: Former Trump adviser John Bolton to plead guilty over classified information

In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton agreed to plead guilty to a felony count of illegally retaining classified information, U.S. officials say a flesh-eating insect detected in Texas livestock has not spread, Hezbollah…

Preview of the Obama Presidential Center ahead of its June 19 opening to the public, in Chicago

4 things to know about Obama's new presidential museum

Here’s a closer look at the top attractions of the campus that is expected to draw as many as 1 million visitors annually.

By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press

Obama's new presidential museum, by the numbers

The Obama Presidential Center will open June 19, more than a decade after the former president chose his hometown of Chicago for the project.

By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Correspondents' Association annual dinner in Washington

6 times the White House Correspondents' Dinner served up memorable moments

Here’s a look at some of that history as Donald Trump prepares for the first time to attend as president.

By Bill Barrow, Associated Press

WATCH: Obama calls on Americans to 'step up' like Jesse Jackson for a better future

By News Desk and Associated Press

“We are living in a time when it can be hard to hope,” Obama said Friday at the final public tribute to Rev. Jesse Jackson. “Each day we wake up to some new assault to our democratic institutions. Another setback…

WATCH: Rev. Jesse Jackson celebrated in memorial service with Obama, Biden and Clinton

By Sophia Tareen, Matt Brown, Associated Press

From former presidents to an NBA Hall of Famer to prominent church pastors, stories of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s influence on politics, corporate boardrooms and picket lines loomed large Friday at a celebration honoring the late civil rights leader.

Trump says he doesn't know if aliens are real but directs government to release files on UFOs, more

By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press

Trump made the announcement in a social media post Thursday night, hours after he accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing "classified information" when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.

Obama shuts down alien buzz: 'no evidence during my presidency'

By Associated Press

Former President Barack Obama said he did not see evidence that aliens “have made contact with us,” after sending social media abuzz by saying aliens were real on a podcast over the weekend.

Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it

By Bill Barrow, Josh Boak, Associated Press

The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and blamed on a staffer after widespread backlash, from civil rights leaders to veteran Republican senators, for its treatment of the nation’s first Black president and first lady.