WHITE HOUSE —U.S. President Barack Obama is calling on Russia to allow international investigators immediate, full, and unimpeded access to the site in Ukraine where a Malaysian passenger jet was shot down last week. Obama said Monday the pro-Russian separatists who control the part of eastern Ukraine where the plane went down are preventing international investigators […]
President Obama, on Thursday afternoon, presented the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor to Cpl. William “Kyle” Carpenter in the Eat Room of the White House. 24-year-old Cpl Carpenter, along with Lance Cpl Nicholas Eufrazio, were assigned to a sandbag fortification atop a building in a small village in Helmand province on November […]
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s government reacted in anger at President Barack Obama’s decision to release five Taliban detainees from U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay into Qatar’s jurisdiction, in exchange for an American soldier who had been held by the Taliban for five years. Afghanistan’s foreign ministry said the U.S. decision was a potential breach of international […]
Just hours after announcing the resignation of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, President Obama accepted a second resignation, this one from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Carney served as Obama’s press secretary for three and a half year. President Obama interrupted Carney as Carney was beginning his daily news conference today and announced that Carney was […]