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Former president Barack Obama decried the looting and burning of American cities in response to the death of George Floyd, saying it was “compounding the destruction” of inner-city communities and “detracting from the larger cause.” Obama pointed to a viral video of an elderly black Minneapolis resident brought to tears by the situation after rioters …

Attorney General Bill Barr has appointed a federal prosecutor to probe deeper into the “unmasking” requests that Obama administration officials submitted against Trump associates, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec confirmed Wednesday night. In an interview with Sean Hannity, Kupec said that John Bash, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, would oversee the …

Michael Flynn posed a threat to the former president’s legacy and was made to pay for it. Barack Obama warned his successor against hiring Michael Flynn. It was Nov. 10, 2016, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States. Trump told aide Hope Hicks that …

Michelle Obama’s former hair stylist, Johnny Wright, is teaming up with Tamar Braxton “To Catch a Beautician” on VH1. In the series, premiering Monday (9 p.m.), clients confront the stylist who botched their hair. Wright then steps in and runs the beautician through a “hair boot camp,” giving them pointers from his years of experience …

Johnny Wright served as Michelle Obama’s personal hairstylist from 2009 to 2017 while she was in the White House, and told Page Six that the first lady only turned down one of his proposed looks. “I did several high ponytails on her. The only thing that was turned down was when I wanted to cut …

The health of US Presidents is a well-kept secret, especially while they’re in office. The public is on a need-to-know basis, and, generally speaking, the government doesn’t think the public needs to know at all – especially when it comes to presidents’ illnesses. From George Washington to Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, presidents have suffered from various ailments …

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Tuesday that he plans on completing his panel’s investigation into the FBI’s probe of now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia and release a public report on the findings ahead of November’s presidential election. “I want to do it before the election — I want …

Attorney General William Barr on Monday said he does not expect U.S. attorney John Durham’s probe into the origins of the Russia investigation to lead to a criminal investigation of either Joe Biden or Barack Obama. “As for President Obama and Vice President Biden, whatever their level of involvement based on what I know, I …

President Trump on Sunday hit back at criticism from former president Barack Obama over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. “Look, he was an incompetent president,” Trump said of Obama. “That’s all I can say. Grossly incompetent.” In a speech to graduates of historically black colleges on Saturday, Obama leveled thinly veiled criticism at his …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday said his claim that the Obama administration left no plan for a national pandemic was “wrong” and there was in fact a playbook in place for the Trump administration. “I was wrong,” McConnell said during a Fox News interview. “They did leave behind a plan. So I clearly …