Barack Obama

The Federal Trade and Communications Commissions are known buzzkills when it comes to blocking corporate mergers. But sometimes, in the face of extreme consequences, the role falls on a higher power. On recommendation from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, the U.S. president...

The ousting of more than nearly 800,000 young people who came to the United States illegally as children would cost the country $460 billion in GDP over the next decade, with the California and Texas economies taking the hardest hit, a study shows. President Donald Trump, making good on a campaign...

All roads led to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, this weekend, as central bankers, chief executives of banks, finance ministers, U.S. government representatives and academics all converged at this scenic location to air their views, both formally and informally, on various economic issues. This two-day...

President Donald Trump, perhaps practicing pardoning himself should wrongdoing emerge from the investigation into his Russia dealings, isn't the first Oval Office occupant to exercise this sweeping power. With Hurricane Harvey bearing down on Texas, Trump on Friday night pardoned infamous...

With tensions rising around the world, the U.S. government has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) nearly $700 million to begin working on the next generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles, upgrading the Cold War-era rockets. The deals, reported in...

(Editor’s note: The author covered the Afghanistan war for The Associated Press in 2003) President Donald Trump asked Americans to support his decision to put more U.S. troops in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan, perhaps staking his imperiled presidency on bringing peace to a place that has...

President Donald Trump has been under fire for his comments in the days following a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 12. Trump initially tweeted his press conference coverage, in which he stated "both sides" were to blame for the violence that broke out at...

Much has been made of the fact that President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision announced via Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) Wednesday to ban transgender people from the U.S. military fell on the 69th anniversary of the day that President Harry Truman desegregated those very same armed forces. What...

President Donald Trump has made America, for the first time since the Vietnam war, grate again — grating the nerves of the rest of the free world. The Pew Research Center published a study showing that the world’s view of the United States has plunged from 64 percent favorability to 49...

President Donald Trump fired some 200 top envoys upon his inauguration and has only filled 27 posts so far, mostly with political cronies who contributed to his campaign. Trump’s appointment of Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah and a former ambassador to China and to Singapore, fits...