President Obama reads Mean Tweets, including a Nickelback insult — watch
Barack Obama’s farewell tour hit Hollywood on Friday night as the soon-to-be-ex-president made one final appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. As part of his visit, Obama took part in an installment of...
View ArticlePresident Barack Obama reveals his top five rappers
Barack Obama hasn’t been in danger of losing the title of coolest president ever since he snatched it from Bill Clinton about 10 seconds into his first term. But he’s spent the last few months of his...
View ArticleMembers of Radiohead, Guns N’ Roses, Green Day sign Standing Rock open letter...
Photos by Heather Kaplan (Kate Nash, Green Day) and Philip Cosores (Sia) British artist Kate Nash has enlisted more than 120 of her fellow musicians to sign an open letter to President Obama, the Army...
View ArticlePresident Obama signs nationwide legislation banning ticket bots
President Obama has signed into law the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016, which makes it a federal offense to use computer software to buy tickets online. The bill, which was passed by the...
View ArticleKey & Peele present farewell Obama Anger Translator sketch on The Daily Show...
People have sought catharsis after the election of Donald Trump in a number of ways, from protesting in the streets to singing songs to throwing massive parties. Producer and writer Jay Martel found...
View ArticleThe Obamas threw an epic going-away party at the White House last night that...
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have just a couple of weeks left on their lease in the White House, and they seem intent on going out in style. Last night, the POTUS and FLOTUS...
View ArticleActress sentenced to 18 years in prison for mailing ricin to President Obama
An actress who mailed ricin to President Obama and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg will spend the next 18 years in federal prison. Shannon Guess Richardson, a 36-year-old native of Texas, has...
View ArticleBarack Obama unveils presidential portrait painted by Kehinde Wiley
Former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama unveiled their official portraits at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC on Monday. Appropriately, Kehinde Wiley became...
View ArticleRead Barack and Michelle Obama’s touching tribute to Aretha Franklin
President Barack Obama made music as much a part of his presidency as any politician before him or since, often welcoming a range of performers to the White House for various cultural celebrations....
View ArticleBarack Obama encourages people to vote: “This is not Coachella”
Former president Barack Obama encouraged voters to hit the polls this November, saying during a speech at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Friday that “this moment in our country is too...
View ArticleBarack Obama guests on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new Hamildrop “One Last Time (44...
Over the last year or so, Lin-Manuel Miranda has been steadily dropping tracks inspired by his hit Broadway musical Hamilton. The Hamildrops series has featured contributions from The Decemberists,...
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