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  • Trump’s Election Proves Obama Is a Dignified Man in an Undignified Time

    With less than a month left in office, President Barack Obama is flexing his executive muscle, but it all feels a little too late. Recently he granted clemency to 231 prisoners, and now he’s banning offshore drilling in areas of the Arctic and Atlantic indefinitely. I would have loved to see this flippant Obama in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Michelle Obama Talks to Oprah, Confirms She Won't Run for Office

    It seems like no matter how much we pray, beg and pray some more, Michelle Obama won’t be running for office. Any office. During what was billed as her last interview as first lady, Michelle Obama confirmed to Oprah Winfrey what her husband has already stated thousands of times: She doesn’t want a career in…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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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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    Monique Judge

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  • POTUS Pops Off on Russia Over Email Hacks: ‘They’re a Small … Weak Country’

    President Barack Obama has donned his “pop off” hat and put Russia President Vladimir Putin on notice that the U.S. may retaliate against the country for meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, reports the Associated Press. “Whatever they do to us, we can potentially do to them,” Obama said Friday at his last press…

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    The Root Staff

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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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    Danielle Young

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  • CIA Says Russia Helped Trump in US Election: Report

    In a secret assessment from September, the CIA concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to an explosive report from the Washington Post. “It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump…

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    The Root Staff

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  • President Obama Orders Investigation of Alleged Russian Hacking in 2016 Election

    President Barack Obama has ordered a full investigation into the 2016 election process and alleged hacking by the Russians, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Adviser Lisa Monaco said Friday, according to CNN. “The president has directed the intelligence community to conduct a full review of what happened during the 2016 election process,” Monaco said. “It is…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • President Obama: ‘Michelle Will Never Run for Office’

    President Barack Obama isn’t just depressing us with his impending exit from the White House. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he dashed any dreams that we collectively had for a Michelle Obama presidency. “Michelle will never run for office,” he said in the candid interview, which hit newsstands Tuesday. While many believe the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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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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    Monique Judge

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