(White House transcript) THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Tonight marks the eighth year I’ve come here to report on the State of the Union. And for this final one, I’m going to try to make it shorter. I know some of you are antsy to get back […]Load more...
William Gallo President Barack Obama is delivering his seventh and final State of the Union address, touting his accomplishments as president, focusing on his vision for the country’s future and discussing the need to heal its deep political divides. Speaking to a packed House of Representatives chamber in the U.S. Capitol, Obama acknowledged that the […]Load more...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Tuesday received the endorsement of MoveOn.org, a grassroots organization that has been at the forefront of liberal causes. MoveOn says the Vermont senator was supported by 78.6 percent of its membership in an online vote of more than 340,000 members. Hillary Clinton received 14.6 percent and […]Load more...
For the seventh and final time of his presidency, Barack Obama will stand before Congress and the American public to lay out his vision not only for his remaining months in office, but for the future of the United States. “Not just the remarkable progress we have made, not just what I want to get […]Load more...
VOA NEWS – South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will give the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday. The honor is usually given to someone viewed as a rising star in the party, which aptly describes Haley. Haley – born Nimrata «Nikki» Randhawa on January 20, 1972, in Bamberg, […]Load more...
Congressman Jim Langevin announced today that he will bring Tim Hebert, the President and CEO of Atrion, as his guest to President Obama’s final State of the Union address. Atrion is a Warwick-based IT services firm that provides, among its solution areas, cybersecurity offerings around perimeter security, compliance and information protection. “Cybersecurity is an issue […]Load more...
WASHINGTON – Carol and Peter McKenna, the parents of U.S. Army Special Forces 1st Sgt. P. Andrew McKenna Jr., who was killed in Afghanistan last summer, will attend the State of the Union Address as the guests of U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI). “We are honored to be attending the State of the Union […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—«America can do anything,” President Barack Obama said Saturday, previewing a theme of his final State of the Union address this week. The president and his Republican critics will differ in assessing the past seven years and clash on what the United States needs going forward. Obama sees progress made and a stronger foundation on […]Load more...
DES MOINES, Iowa – Bernie Sanders gives Democrats the best chance to win the White House in 2016 because he performs significantly better than Hillary Clinton against Republican presidential candidates. “Sanders runs markedly better than Clinton” against Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the leaders in their party’s field of candidates in […]Load more...
VOA – El senador Bernie Sanders se desempeñaría mejor que Hillary Clinton en una hipotética contienda final contra cualquiera de los principales candidatos republicanos –Donald Trump, Ted Cruz y Marco Rubio. Según la más reciente encuesta de NBC/WSJ/Marist, Clinton le ganaría a Trump en una elección general, pero no a Cruz ni a Rubio. En […]Load more...