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Barack Obama

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

July 2024

  • Illustration showing an oil facility and US, Canada, Norway, UK and Australia national flags

    The other petrostates
    ‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

  • Toumani Diabate, musician

    Toumani Diabaté obituary

  • Anthony Edwards, left, and LeBron James of the United States warm up ahead of Wednesday’s exhibition against Canada at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    The theory of everything: USA’s latest dream team is true basketball nirvana

  • Barack Obama dressed in casual white attire in a stadium.

    Obama’s code-switching USA Basketball greetings evoke Key & Peele sketch

  • USA Basketball see off Canada in Paris tune-up as Obama watches in Las Vegas

  • Democrats don’t just need a new candidate. They need a reckoning

    Osita Nwanevu

June 2024

  • television screens display a debate between two men

    US presidential debates: the 10 most memorable moments

  • FILE - A secret service agent, July 20, 2022, in New York. Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden's granddaughter have opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in Washington. That's according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on Monday. It happened Sunday night in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

    Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during Biden fundraising trip to LA

  • U.S. President Biden holds a star-studded campaign fundraiser in Los Angeles<br>U.S. President Joe Biden takes part in a conversation with former U.S. President Barack Obama during a star-studded campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 15, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Biden raises $30m at LA fundraiser featuring Obama, Clooney and Roberts

  • people speak to the media outside court

    Trump-appointed judges strike down fund for Black female entrepreneurs

May 2024

  • Black woman in white and brown shirt surrounded by press at the White House

    Marian Shields Robinson, mother of Michelle Obama, dies at 86

    Robinson, who moved to White House when Barack Obama won presidency, helped to care for granddaughters Malia and Sasha
  • Antony Blinken performing in Kyiv.

    Pass notes
    I’m with the band: who knew Antony Blinken could play rock classics?

    The US secretary of state, who performed with a Kyiv band in a bar this week, is the latest musically inclined politician to hit the stage
  • Bodkin actors

    ‘Irish cliche bingo’: critics pan Obamas’ Netflix comedy drama Bodkin

    Seven-part series set in fictional Cork village is couple’s first foray into scripted television for streaming service

April 2024

  • Barack Obama greets Joe Biden at a fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York last month.

    Presidents assemble: Obama can reach parts of Democratic base Biden can’t

    Biden’s charismatic former boss and rival appeared in a show of unity alongside Bill Clinton, who despite a problematic legacy still has a campaign role to play too

March 2024

  • a side-by-side image of Joe Biden and Donald Trump

    Biden and Trump shift to new phase of urgent fundraising in 2024 US election

    Biden raises $26m at New York event with Obama and Clinton while Trump’s campaign claims it will raise $33m at a Florida event
  • Joe Biden,Barack Obama,Bill Clinton<br>President Joe Biden, center, and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a fundraising event with Stephen Colbert at Radio City Music Hall, Thursday, March 28, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

    Biden campaign raises $25m ‘money bomb’ at event with Obama and Clinton

    Chuck Schumer and Lizzo made appearances before the presidents talked onstage in event that widens fundraising lead over Trump

    • Barack Obama drops in on Rishi Sunak on London trip

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      It’s too late to replace Sunak so Tories must ‘march towards the sound of the guns’, Ben Wallace says – as it happened

    • Trump confuses Obama for Biden again at Virginia rally speech

December 2023

  • Emma Brockes

    Digested week
    Digested Week: New York’s Christmas music is no fairytale for me

    Emma Brockes
    Give me Wham! and Wizzard over Perry Como and Frank Sinatra, and I’m also sad my children can’t be nativity donkeys
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