In one of his final acts as President, President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden is only the fourth person to get the added Distinction level since the George H.W. Bush Administration. The other three are Pope John Paul II, President […]
As part of larger sanctions and punishments on the Russian government, President Obama announced that Russian diplomats and government employees will no longer be able to access two compounds owned by the Russian government, effectively closing the properties. The sanctions come as a result of the Russian government’s interference in the […]
With President Obama in his final days and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau still early in his term, the two took steps on Tuesday to curb the amount of drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. President Obama’s action used the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act which allows presidents to […]
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died on Friday at the age of 90. Reactions poured in from around the world, especially in North America where Castro played a significant role in the geopolitics of the past fifty years. President Obama offered a largely neutral statement on Castro’s passing. Under President Obama, […]
President Obama awarded twenty-one Americans the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday. The medal is the highest civilian honor in the United States. President Obama has awarded 123 Medals of Freedom, the highest of any President since it was introduced by President John F. Kennedy. The honorees were given the […]
