BARACK OBAMA

The president has taken up several environment and climate change issues, and issued a number of executive orders to protect the country’s natural heritage.

The first of several U.S. carriers to begin serving Cuba in the coming months, JetBlue Airways will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Santa Clara, Cuba.

Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Rodrigo Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation.

Houston businesswoman Sandy Phan-Gillis has been detained in China since March last year.

The White House had pledged to admit at least 10,000 displaced Syrians during the current fiscal year, which wraps up at the end of September.

Hillary Clinton previously passed on the opportunity to lead the gay rights movement.

Despite racial missteps from both White House hopefuls, black voters overwhelmingly support Clinton's candidacy.

One ISIS member said: "I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump." 

Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit landlocked Laos, where the United States waged a “secret war” while fighting in Vietnam.

Get the first look at Mariah Carey as Kitty in a new “Empire” Season 3 promo.

The director of the new movie about the Obamas' first date gets almost everything right.

President Obama is giving Americans a true Yosemite National Park Experience in his first ever virtual reality film feature.

The U.S. president will increase the size of Hawaii’s Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, which is already bigger than all the other national parks in the country put together.

Obama was accused of being a phony after he apparently used a Louisiana accent during his Baton Rouge speech.

With mounting political pressure, Obama plans to travel to Louisiana where he will visit the devastation cast by floods there.

The Americans were participating in the annual Port Huron Float Down on Sunday in the St. Clair River when winds blew the inflatable rafts and tubes off course.

Obama will fly to Baton Rouge on Tuesday to visit flood-affected areas.

Sadiq Khan says Donald Trump is "under the impression that western liberal values are incompatible with mainstream Islam."

Jon Stewart joined Larry Wilmore to show his support on the last episode of "The Nightly Show."

After staunch denials earlier, the U.S. Department of State conceded Thursday a link between the payment and Iran’s release of U.S. prisoners.

The releases comes amid calls from Donald Trump to deport all undocumented immigrants in the U.S.