Oct 19 These lyrical 1980s letters from Obama offer a glimpse of his post-college hopes By Saher Khan Emory University has obtained letters written by Barack Obama over a two-year span in the early 1980s. The letters will be housed at the university's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library. Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch 6:58 Ta-Nehisi Coates on the unfair expectation that one black president could undo inequality By PBS News Hour In “We Were Eight Years in Power,” Ta-Nehisi Coates calls President Trump the “first white president” for the ways Trump has made the racial identity of former President Obama so central to his politics. Coates joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss… Continue watching
Oct 04 Poll: Most Americans say ‘dreamers’ should be granted citizenship By Laura Santhanam No matter their politics, most Americans want DACA recipients to remain with their parents in the United States, according to a new poll by PBS NewsHour and Marist Poll. Continue reading
Sep 22 DeVos scraps Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault By Maria Danilova, Associated Press Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has said the Obama rules were unfairly skewed against the students accused of assault. Continue reading
Sep 20 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. Continue reading
Sep 06 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. Continue reading
Sep 06 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."… Continue reading
Sep 05 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."… Continue reading
Sep 05 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. Continue reading
Aug 12 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. Continue reading