WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has commuted the prison sentence of former U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who leaked hundreds of thousands of military documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013. She now will be freed in May. She is among 209 prison commutations and 64 pardons […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear a case challenging President Barack Obama’s plan to protect more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally in the United States. The president’s executive order was aimed at deferring deportation of parents of American-born children and permanent residents, but […]
US President Barack Obama has vetoed legislation that would repeal major portions of his signature domestic achievement: the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The bill would also defund the reproductive health organization Planned Parenthood. “Because of the harm this bill would cause to the health and financial security of millions of Americans, it […]
President Barack Obama said Thursday that terrorism or a workplace dispute could have motivated a couple to carry out a deadly shooting rampage at a holiday party in California that left 14 people dead and 17 others injured. Speaking at the White House, Obama said, “It is possible this is terrorist related, but we don’t […]