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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....

Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday that the Israeli military uncovered significant material in its operation at Al-Shifa Hospital, and that its commandos were still searching through the area more than a day after they entered its grounds as part of an offensive to wipe out Hamas militants in the Palestinian enclave. Meanwhile,...

On Tuesday, in Beirut, Lebanon, Hamas official Osama Hamdan announced that 25 out of 35 hospitals in the Gaza strip have been put “out of service” due to the ongoing Israeli bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza. He added that the ongoing conflict has resulted in the destruction of 94 government buildings and 253 schools.

And finally, as the situation continues to develop, Farah Nasser speaks with Steven Simon, a former White House Middle East advisor for both the Obama and Clinton administrations and is now with the research-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. With Israel’s United Nations ambassador Gilad Erdan calling this “Israel’s 9/11” before an emergency UN Security...

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.”

This weekend, there’s plenty to keep you entertained at home, from an Obama documentary to news of a new Dungeons & Dragons movie. Entertainment columnist Jay Walker joins Global’s Kim Sullivan.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention said that as the country goes through a pandemic, and with race relations at the forefront following the death of George Floyd and several other persons of colour, when people have turned to the White House for leadership, they’ve...

Former First Lady Michelle Obama on Monday during the Democratic National Convention said that President Donald Trump is “clearly in over his head” and not the president “for this moment” before quoting Trump in a recent interview about COVID-19 deaths saying “it is what it is.” She also said that if people think things can’t...

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.

Former United States Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton recorded a video message at the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater as their contribution to U.S. President Joe Biden’s “Celebrating America” inauguration concert.

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.

Obama speaks about the international perception of violence against the United States.

In a pre-taped interview on CBS’ “Face The Nation,” Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump spoke with host John Dickerson about Obama’s promise of effecting gun control through an executive order.