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All eyes will be on the state of New Hampshire this week as the race for Republican presidential nominee heats up. ‘The West Block’ guest host Eric Sorensen sits down with Jonathan Madison, a Republican strategist, and Sarada Peri, former senior speechwriter to former U.S. president Barack Obama, to discuss the political stakes of the...

Following the Canadian Medical Association’s calls for urgent political action to fix the crisis in Canada’s emergency rooms, ‘The West Block’ guest host Eric Sorensen speaks with Health Minister Mark Holland about how his government is addressing the issue. Minister Holland also discusses Ontario’s plan for more private health-care clinics and safeguarding Canada’s medication supply....

Campaigning for Joe Biden in Florida, former U.S. President Barack Obama criticized Donald Trump’s recent complaints about people being “too focused” on the pandemic, saying Trump is “jealous of COVID’s media coverage.”

In a campaign rally in Florida, former U.S. president Barack Obama said President Trump shouldn’t brag about the fact that some of the U.S.’s greatest adversaries want him to win the November elections after Trump said during a Monday campaign rally that Putin of Russia, Xi of China and Kim Jong Un of North Korea...

Speaking at a rally for Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, former president Barack Obama called out what he said was a “politics of meanness, and division, and conflict.” He said Americans face a choice that could define “not just the next few years, but the next few decades.”

A number of high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to senior U.S. politicians and tech billionaires including U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, former U.S. President Barack Obama and Elon Musk were apparently hacked on Wednesday, sharing tweets asking for bitcoin donations.

A 17-year-old was allegedly behind the large Twitter hack on July 15 of prominent accounts, including former president Barack Obama and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and is now facing 30 felony charges for “scamming people across America,” the Hillsborough County State Attorney announced in Tampa, Fla. Friday. The teen is being prosecuted in Florida where...

Merrick Garland was ceremonially sworn in on Thursday by U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris as the Biden administration’s attorney general. Garland was former president Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, though he was not given a hearing by the then GOP-controlled Senate. The new attorney general was officially sworn in earlier in the day by assistant attorney...

Musician Steven Van Zandt checks in with The Morning Show to talk about his latest musical ventures and his advice for Bruce Springsteen’s latest podcast with Barack Obama.

On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that America would rejoin the World Health Organization (WHO), and that his administration would reestablish the National Security Council’s (NSC) pandemic unit established under former president Barack Obama.

Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush and Barack Obama, joined by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former first lady’s Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, arrived at Capitol Hill to applause on Wednesday ahead of the swearing-in ceremony for president-elect Joe Biden.

Donald Trump, GOP presidential candidate, said he’ll “probably” watch the State of the Union on Tuesday because U.S. President Barack Obama doesn’t know what’s going on in the country, so someone needs to pay attention to what’s happening.

Vice President Joe Biden seem stunned when U.S. President Barack Obama announced that Biden will lead in getting fund to finally cure cancer.

U.S. President Barack Obama said he will keep working to shut down Guantanamo Bay because it’s “expensive,” “unnecessary” and serves as a “recruitment brochure for our enemies.”

U.S. President Barack Obama says that the world respects the United States for its diversity.

U.S. Present Barack Obama says that election reform in needed in U.S. politics to make it easier for people to vote and stop Gerrymandering.

During his last State of the Union speech on Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke about a range of topics, including the future of America, the Islamic State and one of his few regrets during his presidency. Jackson Proskow reports.

U.S. President Barack Obama became emotional when he spoke about gun violence in the country over the last few years, even having to wipe a tear away. Obama spoke about new executive actions needed to control gun violence in the U.S., including expanding the number of gun buyers who face criminal background checks. Jackson Proskow...

During a rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said U.S. President Barack Obama’s executive orders for new gun control measures are “no good” and “no fair.” Trump also said the president should get together with Congress the “old fashioned way” to discuss gun laws.

U.S. President Barack Obama was in Louisiana for a town hall on Thursday where he spoke about his plan of expanding the health care coverage, Medicaid. Obama also took questions from the crowd, including what his goals are for his final year in office. Omar Villafranca reports.