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Michelle Obama stars as virtual Democratic National Convention gets underway
Never in US history has there been a political convention like this one – as the Democrats head into the second night of their entirely virtual gathering.
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Beating Donald Trump is ‘most important thing we can do but it is not enough’ – former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer
Three months tomorrow, America will go to the polls. And so far almost every opinion poll tells the same story – President Trump is trailing behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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Polls today do not matter ‘what matters is the number of people who turn out to vote’ – former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett
We spoke to the former senior political adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett
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President Trump hits back at Barack Obama for criticism of his pandemic response
The former US president Barack Obama has condemned the country’s lack of leadership during the pandemic – declaring that ‘a lot of them aren’t even pretending to be in charge’.
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Obama would ‘probably do same thing’ over Syria, says Samantha Power
For anyone in public office, idealism can be tricky to maintain – often incompatible with the need for pragmatism and the harsh realities on the ground.
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Former adviser and friend of President Obama, Valerie Jarrett: Joe Biden would be “lightyears better than the current President.”
We spoke to former adviser and friend of President Trump, Valerie Jarrett, asking her first whether Joe Biden was simply too much part of the political establishment to successfully take on President Trump.
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Poppy Ajudha on her music, toxic masculinity and having Barack Obama as a fan
When friends told Poppy Ajudha that former US President Barack Obama had named one of her tracks as a highlight of 2018, the South London artist says she thought it must be a joke.
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Michelle Obama meets schoolchildren in London
After Michelle Obama visited a North London girls’ school in 2009, she said she “almost felt myself falling backward into my own past”. Now, nine years later, the former First Lady has returned to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington.
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Packages containing explosives sent to homes of Obama, Clinton, and to CNN
In the US, packages containing explosives have been sent to the homes of the former president, Barack Obama and the former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. Also today, CNN’s offices in New York City were evacuated when a parcel believed to contain a pipe bomb was discovered.
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Barack Obama and George W Bush lead funeral tributes to John McCain
Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush are leading the service in front of world leaders, political colleagues, family and friends at the memorial for senator John McCain.
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Obama speechwriter on Trump’s “healthy regard for dictators”
Ben Rhodes played a key role in crafting both the Iran deal and the historic thawing in relations between the US and Cuba – and was by Obama’s side on all but one of his overseas trips. Here he gives his views on the world after Obama. Rhodes was deputy foreign policy advisor and speechwriter…
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Trump vs Obama in numbers
How does Mr Trump’s performance compare with how Mr Obama was doing a year after his election?
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Republican senators kill Obamacare repeal bill
It was a night of breathtaking drama, as three Republican senators broke ranks to derail a seven-year effort by their own party to scrap Obama’s healthcare law. Among them, John McCain, who’d delayed his cancer treatment to vote. That would be enough turmoil for most administrations, but not President Trump’s White House. His new communications…
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Trump frustrated over Obamacare replacement
It was one of his flagship election pledges, yet President Trump has lost his bid to repeal and replace large parts of Barack Obama’s healthcare law for the second time, after two Republican senators refused to back the proposal. A furious President, on Twitter, declared Congress should just repeal Obamacare and worry about replacing it…
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Senate to vote to repeal Obamacare
Millions of Americans seem destined to lose their access to health care, under a new bill due to be voted on by the Senate next week. President Trump is, as he promised, undoing Obamacare, the health system put in place by his predecessor. Democrats say poorer Americans will pay the price with their lives, but…
