Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
Off shore drilling was the focus of Obama's energy plan to meet the United States' growing energy crisis. President Obama announced Wednesday: "for the sake of our planet and our energy independence, we need to begin the transition to cleaner fuels now," in the form of "clean coal technologies...
Since 2008, great controversy has surrounded President Barack Obama's birth certificate and privacy laws have blocked the document's public release. In recent weeks, State Attorney General David Louie responded to Democratic Governor Neil Abercrombie's inquiry into the President's birth place,...
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama delivered a memorial speech regarding the Tuscon, Arizona shooting targeting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which wounded 13 people, killed six, and rattled the nation. Obama implored U.S. citizens to support each other with renewed civility, as well as...
President Obama versus Sarah Palin on the nuclear issue took an interesting direction. Obama released a new nuclear policy early this week which disarms the United States of the use of nuclear weapons against countries without nuclear capabilities if they comply with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
Michelle Obama visits Haiti for an impromptu stop over on Monday morning to see first hand the massive devastation to the country. This is Mrs. Obama's first international trip without President Obama following the January 12 earthquake that rattled the impoverished nation. The First Lady and...
Obama's nuclear strategy focuses strongly global security. President Obama released his plan during an interview on Monday, April 5th, 2010 which highlights the push to eliminate nuclear weapons entirely to make the world safer and encourage countries, through incentive programs, to abort nuclear...
A Bloomberg National Poll of 1,000 Americans conducted between December 4 until December 7, 2010 found that 51 percent of respondents feel "worse off" under Obama's administration. Over two thirds of the respondents also indicated the feeling that the nation is "headed in the wrong direction."...
Martha Stewart and Michelle Obama received a space in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington for the first time, MaxiNews.com reported.A new exhibit, "Americans Now," opened Friday, featuring famous names from science, business, government and the arts in the museum.President Barack Obama and...
Bruce "The Boss" Frederick Joseph Springsteen is an American singer and songwriter born on September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey. Springsteen was born to Douglas Frederick Springsteen, a bus driver of Irish and Dutch ancestry, and Adele Ann Serilli, a legal secretary of Italian descent....
