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Barack Obama

News about Barack Obama, 44th US president who served from 20 January 2009 to 20 January 2017

May 2026

  • A man in suit speaks outside while standing next to a lectern, American flags behind him

    Trump posts late-night social media spree as Iran war drags on

    President posted more than 50 times in three hours, attacking on Obama, NY Times and supreme court

April 2026

  • An American flag and a Ukrainian flag fly outside the US Capitol building.

    The long read
    As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking

    The long read: My country has been under occupation, dogged by corruption and war. Yet even I’ve been bewildered by the way the US seems to be fracturing
  • Prime minister Keir Starmer giving his address to the Commons earlier today

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer says it ‘beggars belief’ he wasn’t told about Mandelson vetting failure as he faces down the Commons – UK politics as it happened

    MPs jeered as PM said it is ‘incredible’ he was not told full story and he was wrong to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador

    • Obama and Mamdani read and sing with New York preschoolers in first meeting

    • Obama and Mamdani sing The Wheels on the Bus with New York preschoolers – video

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    • Trump needs a better Iran deal than Obama’s – but faces major hurdles

March 2026

  • Sara Kozameh

    double quotation markIn the other US target of regime change, Cuba, I saw real hardship – and resilience

    Sara Kozameh
  • people in formal clothing sitting down behind casket decorated with flowers

    Jesse Jackson hailed as ‘ambassador of hope’ at memorial attended by Clintons, Obama and Biden

February 2026

  • A man at a lectern.

    ‘A global hero’: Jesse Jackson’s legacy of activism around the world

  • Donald Trump at Joint Base AndrewsU.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., February 19, 2026.

    Trump says he will order the release of Pentagon files on aliens and UFOs

  • The civil rights campaigner has died aged 84. Jackson was a protege of Martin Luther King Jr and ran twice for the Democratic presidential nomination. Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights campaigner and trailblazer in US politics, has died aged 84. Lucy Hough speaks to Carys Afoko

    Jesse Jackson: titan of US civil rights movement leaves legacy of hope - The Latest

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  • 5-1983, 5-12-1983, APR 15 1984, JUL 13 1984; Jackson, Jesse L. (Rev.) - Ind.; (Photo By John Prieto/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

    Today in Focus
    Jesse Jackson: titan of US civil rights movement leaves legacy of hope – The Latest

    Podcast10:51

  • Jesse Jackson obituary

  • Full Story
    Why did Obama say aliens are real? – Full Story podcast

    Podcast11:06

  • Today in Focus: The Latest
    Why did Obama say aliens are real? | The Latest

    Video9:47

  • Today in Focus
    Why did Obama say aliens are real? – The Latest

    Podcast10:45

  • No evidence aliens have made contact, says Obama after podcast comments cause frenzy

  • double quotation markTrump’s Obama and Bad Bunny posts crystallize his political philosophy

    Sidney Blumenthal

  • Barack Obama publicly states support for anti-ICE demonstrators in Minneapolis

  • US politics live with Shrai Popat
    Trump says regime change in Iran ‘would be the best thing’ as US military reportedly plans for operation – as it happened

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