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Obama: ‘Don’t Go Around Just Looking For Insults’ The newest person to say that liberals should stop trying to be offended by everything under the sun is none other than President Obama himself. Obama was being interviewed by NPR last week when he was asked if he agreed with President-elect Donald Trump’s assessment that political […]

On Sept. 24, 2016, after years of effort, the National Museum of African American History and Culture was finally opened to the public. The Smithsonian’s new museum has been rightly praised for its detailed, complex, and powerful portrayal of the African-American experience in the United States. As the Wall Street Journal and New York Times

Vowing that his successor won’t be able to reverse his actions, President Obama on Tuesday used executive authority to permanently ban new offshore drilling in federally owned waters off the Atlantic coast and in the Arctic Ocean. Mr. Obama used authority in a section of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, a 1953 law, to

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California gained an embassy in Russia last weekend, at least in the eyes of those who have promised to seek a statewide vote on secession, nicknamed “Calexit,” in 2018. Louis Marinelli, a San Diego resident who is the leader of the group promoting an effort to turn the state into an independent

Michelle Obama sat down with Oprah Winfrey to talk about her husband, President Barack Obama, his legacy and life after White House. The interview, titled “First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House: An Oprah Winfrey Special,” aired Monday on CBS. In the hourlong interview, Michelle said that she has no plans to

Colin Powell didn’t campaign or raise any money, but he outperformed every presidential candidate not named Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Electoral College. The former secretary of state received three electoral votes Monday in Washington state from rogue Democratic electors who refused to vote for Mrs. Clinton, the winner of the state’s

California’s birth rate dropped to its lowest ever in 2016, according to data released by the state’s Department of Finance. Between July 2015 and July of this year, there were 12.42 births per 1,000 Californians. The last time birth rates came close to being that low was during the Great Depression, when they hit 12.6