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  • President Obama Grants Clemency to 231 More People Just in Time for Christmas

    President Barack Obama granted clemency to 231 more prisoners Monday, with 153 commutations of sentences and 78 pardons, the most individual acts of clemency granted in the same day, according to the White House blog. Monday’s 153 commutations bring Obama’s total during his presidency to 1,176. He has commuted the sentences of 395 people who…

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  • Watch: Our Favorite Celebrities Bid Farewell to President Barack Obama

    Realizing that you’re losing President Barack Obama is like being peacefully asleep and suddenly being jerked awake with a gasp. And you’re just sitting there, too shaken to go back to sleep and too tired to move. It’s a paralyzing fear. President Obama, love him or hate him, made history, and since his first inauguration…

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  • President Obama Issues the Last Turkey Pardon of His Presidency

    On the eve of President Barack Obama’s last Thanksgiving in the White House, he carried on the time-honored tradition of pardoning a turkey before the holiday. Nephews Austin and Aaron Robinson were on hand to watch their Uncle President in the pardon of the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Obama Administration's Overtime Expansion Rule Blocked by Federal Judge in Texas

    A federal judge in Texas blocked an Obama administration expansion of the overtime rule on Tuesday, just days before it was set to take effect.   The Labor Department measure, which would have gone into effect Dec. 1, would have expanded which employees were eligible for overtime pay by doubling the salary level at which…

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  • President Obama Grants 79 More Commutations to Nonviolent Drug Offenders

    President Barack Obama granted 79 more commutations Tuesday, bringing his total to more than 1,000 during his time in office, the Washington Post reports. The president has granted commutations to more prisoners, the majority of whom were nonviolent drug offenders, than the last 11 presidents combined. Obama has committed to using the tools at his…

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    Monique Judge

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  • Obama Was the Most Disrespected President; So What Do We Call Trump?

    President Barack Obama was, arguably, the most disrespected president in history. First there were the questions about his birth certificate. Birthers, unaware that Hawaii joined the Union in 1959, were in the streets asking to see the certificate of the 44th president of the United States like a disgruntled man on the Maury Show. Then, during…

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    Lawrence Ware

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  • President Obama Announces Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients 

    President Barack Obama named 21 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation, on Wednesday, according to a White House press release.   The awards, which will be presented in a ceremony at the White House on Nov. 22, honor “individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the…

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    Monique Judge

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  • #NoDAPL: Obama Says Army Corps Is Considering Rerouting Dakota Access Pipeline

    As Native American groups continue to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Army Corps is considering ways to “reroute” the pipeline, according to an interview with NowThis, NPR reports. The $3.8 billion, nearly 1,200-mile pipeline is expected to cross under a section…

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    Monique Judge

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  • 8 Years a President: Thoughts on 2 Terms of a Black President and Black First Family  

    It’s a tall task to assess the entirety of President Barack Obama’s two terms in office, to cull an ultimate judgment from all the success and missteps of his administration, and then measure that against the unprecedented obstructions it faced. One can point to the decline in deficit and the growth of gross domestic product,…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Obama Cancels Meeting With Philippine President After Being Called 'Son of a Bitch'

    President Barack Obama canceled a meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after Duterte called him a “son of a bitch,” Reuters reports. According to CNN, the White House had said that Obama planned to ask Duterte about his country’s handling of drug dealers, which has included a wave of extrajudicial killings. Duterte slammed Obama on…

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    Breanna Edwards

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