Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced privately earlier on Friday that he will step down from his role in December. President Obama then officially announced the resignation during a Friday afternoon press conference. Deputy Secretary John King, Jr. will become acting Secretary and President Obama will be keeping King in […]
American President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will meet Tuesday at the United Nations. The White House announced the meeting on Sunday. Castro spoke to the UN Sustainable Development Summit on Saturday and praised the progress of the normalization of American-Cuban relations. However, he criticized the embargo, calling […]
As Pope Francis landed in the United States, Hillary Clinton revealed her position on an issue that has dogged her and the Obama Administration for years. Clinton came out against the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,179 mile project that would bring tar sands from Canada. Speaking to a community forum […]
Over the weekend, the Obama Administration announced that Mount McKinley, the highest point in the United States, and North America, would be renamed Denali. Denali is the original name of the mountain and the local Alaskan native name. The mountain was named Mt. McKinley by a gold prospector in 1896 […]
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that he will support President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal. The former Senate Majority Leader is the 27th Senate Democrat to support the deal. Reid’s office says that he will begin a whipping operation to get other Senate Democrats to support the deal. Currently, […]
