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Asia pivot: This time with feeling!

By Boo Chanco | 3 days ago

Barack Obama’s Asia pivot was a dud, as America was too preoccupied with Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern hotspots. That gave China time to build its military capabilities and its alliances with nations...

Business

'Yes she can': Obama says US ready for a Harris presidency

By Gregory Walton | August 21, 2024 - 2:33pm

Barack Obama told fellow Democrats in Chicago Tuesday that "the torch has been passed" to Kamala Harris and that the United...

World

Harris gets vital Obama backing in battle against Trump

By Sebastian Smith | July 27, 2024 - 10:25am

Barack Obama pledged support for Kamala Harris on Friday, filling the last major gap in her bid to unite Democrats around...

World

Biden nears crunch point as pressure grows to drop out

By Chris Kleponis | July 19, 2024 - 8:57am

US President Joe Biden was reportedly coming closer to dropping out of the White House race Friday as allies including Barack...

World

The power of words and reading

By BREAKTHROUGH | By Elfren S. Cruz | April 7, 2024 - 12:00am

My favorite quotation on reading and books is from former US president Barack Obama, who said in a 2017 interview on what books mean to him: “…(reading) reintroduced me to the power of words as...

Opinion

Barack Obama includes Filipino journalist's book on drug war among 2023 favorites

By Kristofer Purnell | December 24, 2023 - 11:51am

Former US president Barack Obama has included "Some People Need Killing" by Filipino journalist Patricia Evangelista in his...

Arts and Culture

Pang-iinsulto sa nagbabalatkayong ‘joke’  

By Annabelle O. Buenviaje | October 13, 2023 - 12:00am

KUMALAT ang tsismis noong kasalukuyan pang nakaupo ang U.S. President na si Barack Obama. Nagsimula ang lahat sa interview ng 81 years old na komedyanang si Joan Rivers.

Punto Mo

Obama vying for 1st Emmy, 'Succession' leads Emmy Awards 2022 nominations

By Agence France-Presse | September 5, 2022 - 5:37pm

"Succession" led the way in Tuesday's Emmy nominations, which saw the Television Academy's 20,000 voters sift through record...

Entertainment

Hope

By AS A MATTER OF FACT | By Sara Soliven De Guzman | March 28, 2022 - 12:00am

“Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.”...

Opinion

Poet Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on US coin

January 11, 2022 - 5:51pm

Poet and activist Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on the US quarter, in a new version of the coin...

Arts and Culture