Barack Obama

WATCH: Obama speaks at global health event

By News Desk

Former President Barack Obama spoke at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers event in New York on Wednesday to measure the progress of global health over the past 25 years.

WATCH LIVE: Senate health committee holds first hearing on stabilizing Obamacare

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

Both parties must give ground to craft a compromise bill shoring up the nation's individual health insurance markets or they'll be blamed for hurting millions of consumers, the chairman of the Senate health committee said Wednesday.

WATCH: Top Democrats speak about Trump’s DACA decision

By Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says that if Congress doesn't pass protections for immigrants brought to this country illegally as children, Democrats will move to attach it to other items this fall "until it passes."…

Obama says decision to phase out DACA is ‘cruel’ and ‘self-defeating’

By Associated Press

Obama did not mention Trump by name in his statement but says a "shadow has been cast" over some of the nation's best and brightest young people. He says targeting them is wrong "because they have done nothing wrong."…

WATCH: White House urges Congress to make ‘responsible immigration reform’ as DACA is scaled back

By Joshua Barajas

White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says reform should also include controlling the U.S. border, improved vetting and enforcing immigration laws.

In the shadow of a nuclear plant, the U.S. government lays out an unusual mission: teach the locals to trust science

By Max Blau, STAT

Fear haunts a community near a nuclear plant. So the U.S. is sending scientists there — to explain to dubious locals why they should trust in science.

What it’s like to be President Trump’s White House photographer

By Elizabeth Flock

In one of her first-ever interviews, official White House photographer Shealah Craighead says she sees her role as to be a neutral observer, instead of shape the public perception of the president.

President Trump grudgingly signs Russia sanctions bill

By Vivian Salama and Richard Lardner, Associated Press

Dealt a striking congressional rebuke, Donald Trump grudgingly signed what he called a "seriously flawed" package of sanctions against Russia, bowing for the moment to resistance from both parties to his push for warmer ties with Moscow.

Michelle Obama says some people still ‘won’t see me for what I am because of my skin color’

By Associated Press

Obama spoke at an event for the Women's Foundation of Colorado in Denver on Wednesday night.

California lawmakers celebrate bipartisan cap-and-trade victory

By Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press

California's signature initiative to fight global warming will get another decade of life after lawmakers from both parties joined Gov. Jerry Brown in extending the law credited with reducing the state's carbon footprint.