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THE LATEST BARACK OBAMA NEWS, PICTURES AND VIDEO UPDATES

Nasa's Mars crisis as funding for world's biggest rocket that could take man to the red planet gets slashed in $19bn budget request - but space agency hints it may return to the moon

09/02/16 23:52

A large chunk of the funds - $8.4 billion - will be put towards human exploration programs, with hints that Nasa is getting serious about a return to the moon. But overall Obama's proposed Nasa budget includes a 17 per cent cut in spending on human exploration from $4 billion to $3.3 billion. Nasa also wants to continue developing the world's biggest rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), along with the Orion crew capsule. The SLS program has only been allotted $1.3 billion, much lower than the $2 billion it was given for 2016. Orion would also get $150 million less. ...read

09/02/16 20:43

President Barack Obama is sending Congress his eighth and final budget, proposing to spend a record $4.1 trillion on a number of initiatives - but Republicans are dead against it already.

09/02/16 06:32

The Republican candidate is under fire for simply repeating the same talking points. Today he came out fighting at a campaign stop in Nashua, NH, where he said he'd repeat over and over his answer to critics.

09/02/16 06:28

Megyn Kelly, 45, and Douglas Brunt, 44 (pictured), arrived together for the taping in New York. The Fox News anchor was about to reveal how she would welcome back Donald Trump in March.

08/02/16 23:27

Speaking on the Stephen Colbert show on Sunday night, the FNC show host revealed that she knows exactly what she's going to ask Trump in her opening question - but stopped short of saying what it was.

08/02/16 20:26

Speaking at the White House on Monday, Obama pointedly explained that the mosquito-spread infection linked to babies being born with abnormally small heads is not life-threatening.

08/02/16 13:09

While speaking to CBS's Gayle King on Sunday, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama discussed their Super Bowl plans, life at the White House and life post-presidency.

05/02/16 19:07

Donald Trump ridiculed President Obama for his decision not to bomb ISIS' oil fields – over environmental concerns – while having no problem taking a dirty Air Force One play golf.

04/02/16 23:18

Obama, a Chicago Bulls fan, praised the Golden State Warriors as 'revolutionary' - but took some time to poke fun at the high-flyers as he impersonated Steph Curry 'clowning' on the court.

04/02/16 23:06

'Barack Obama had no experience and this is what we've turned up with,' Christie said this morning. Rubio responded and said, 'He's a bad president because he has bad ideas and bad ideology.'

04/02/16 20:19

President Barack Obama slammed what he called 'inexcusable' anti-Muslim rhetoric in the political sphere during a speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday.

04/02/16 18:19

Delivering his last annual sermon to Washington's elite, President Barack Obama on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast warned of the corrosive impact of fear in public life.

04/02/16 10:13

President Barack Obama slammed what he called 'inexcusable' anti-Muslim rhetoric in the political sphere during a speech at the Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday.

03/02/16 11:12

The former governor of Alaska, who predicted The Donald would take the Republican vote, had little to say after his defeat, fleeing the rally and declining to speak to any of those in attendance.

02/02/16 13:52

Sir Kim Darroch's strangely hilarious stance in the White House photograph has since been described as 'stiff upper everything' and a 'malfunctioned Cameronbot model'.

02/02/16 08:35

Sarah Palin did not take kindly to being asked about her son Track Palin's domestic violence arrest when appearing this morning on the Today show.

02/02/16 04:19

Drake has responded after President Obama was asked on January 15, during a You Tube Q&A: 'If Drake and Kendrick Lamar got in a rap battle, who do you think would win?' and chose Kendrick Lamar

01/02/16 23:23

Clinton has a chip on her shoulder going into tonight's party contests in Iowa. She was supposed to win the state in 2008 but came in an astounding third place. Tonight could bring a repeat loss.

01/02/16 15:16

Amir Hekmati, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and pastor Saeed Abedini arrived late Sunday at the US military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to be evaluated.

01/02/16 14:29

President Obama announced a ban on solitary confinement for juveniles in the federal prison system, while protecting adult inmates from the 'overuse' of the punishment.

01/02/16 00:55

President Barack Obama had a secret, and decided to share it with an assembly at the White House - back in the day he had a thing for You're No Good singer Linda Ronstadt.

31/01/16 05:53

Obama plans to hold talks with Muslim leaders at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, the White House announced Saturday.

29/01/16 18:25

Dubbed the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, the group will be modest in scope — the White House says the task force is 'advisory only.'

28/01/16 12:04

Obama spoke on Wednesday evening to honor four people who protected Jews at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, the first sitting president to speak at the embassy.

28/01/16 00:20

President Barack Obama and his aides have said a lot of nice things about Bernie Sanders, but not this one: He's ready to be president.

27/01/16 21:53

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton was upbeat on Tuesday when asked if she would consider nominating President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court

27/01/16 18:03

President Barack Obama has called for the rapid development of tests, vaccines and treatments to fight the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus.

27/01/16 14:25

The First Lady urged college pupils to work hard citing it was 'never too late' to do well as she opened up about Barack Obama's past in a candid interview, which was filmed in the White House for The Real.

25/01/16 20:56

President Barack Obama waded into the primary race to succeed him in a new interview Monday, offering moderate praise for Sen. Bernie Sanders but 'obvious affection' for Hillary Clinton.

25/01/16 07:48

Donald Trump boldly claimed this morning on Fox News that black Americans are 'going to like me better than they like Obama.' Though, Trump noted, 'he does have a slight advantage.'

22/01/16 16:49

Obama has spent every Christmas season vacationing in Hawaii. But this year the Honolulu Police Department spent the highest amount since 2008 in its mission to help protect the president.

22/01/16 00:12

U.S. gun rights group the NRA has used ads from Australia's gun buyback period in the 1990s to try to whip up opposition to similar laws being introduced in America.

21/01/16 23:07

During a campaign stop in Tulsa, Oklahoma supporting Donald Trump on Wednesday, Sarah Palin addressed the 'elephant in the room' that is her son Track's recent arrest for domestic assault.

21/01/16 18:12

Obama was forced to abandon his plans to fly by helicopter from Andrews Air Base in Maryland back to the White House in Washington D.C. after Marine One was grounded due to icy weather.

21/01/16 13:58

Malia Obama's high school will have to find another commencement speaker when she graduates this year. Her father, President Barack Obama, says he'll be too emotional to speak

21/01/16 12:44

President Barack Obama used a triumphant speech before auto workers in Detroit on Wednesday to pledge federal support for the crisis-stricken city of Flint and chide officials for the water 'tragedy' there.

20/01/16 21:59

Palin spoke for nearly 20 minutes in Tulsa at the Mabee Arena at Oral Roberts University on Wednesday. She called Trump 'ballsy enough to get out there.'

20/01/16 20:20

Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Wednesday forcefully defended the Obama administration's push to tighten gun control laws, calling them 'common sense steps' to curb gun violence

20/01/16 16:00

Lifestyle vlogger Ingrid Nilsen from California, was invited to Washington D.C. to interview President Obama at the White House when she decided to tackle him on why sanitary products are taxed.

20/01/16 08:52

Christine Levinson (center), the wife of former FBI agent Robert who went missing in Iran in 2007, has slammed White House officials for failing to tell her about the prisoner swap ahead of time.

19/01/16 23:46

The film focuses on the epic first date a 27-year-old Obama took his future First Lady on one summer afternoon in 1989 across the south side of Chicago.

19/01/16 19:39

The Obama administration is already on the losing end of two federal court decisions, including a 2-1 appeals-court spanking, and needs the Supreme Court to resurrect 'DACA' and 'DAPA.'

18/01/16 20:30

Denver Broncos player Demaryius Thomas' mother Katrina Smith was one of 46 first-time non-violent offenders who had their sentences commuted by President Obama in July.

18/01/16 15:14

Matthew Trevithick, 30, from Massachusetts, landed at Boston's Logan Airport Sunday after being released from Evin Prison independently of a prisoner swap between the US and Iran.

18/01/16 13:48

Iran has denounces the 'illegitimate' new U.S. curbs on the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile programme, vowing to continue developing its conventional military deterrent.

18/01/16 12:02

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle went out for a Mexican meal on Saturday night for an early celebration of the first lady's birthday. She turns 52 on Sunday.

18/01/16 11:14

President Obama took time in his speech at the White House to remember ex-FBI Bob Levinson, who is still thought to be imprisoned in Iran.

18/01/16 08:54

Police say a thief who broke into cars at high school basketball game in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, didn't know what he had his hands on, and threw signed speech by the President into the trash.

17/01/16 23:45

Obama also told YouTube user 'sWooZie' he had not seen the newest Star Wars movie, yet, even though a screening was held at the White House last month as it hit theaters.

17/01/16 12:06

Both Ted Cruz and Chris Christie called him a child the other night,' Clinton said. 'Too often we hear Republicans talking in coded, racial language about free stuff, takers and losers.'

17/01/16 11:57

The ‘summit’ with the Labour leader raises the prospect of the U.S president sweeping into London in his motorcade to hold talks with a bicycle-riding pacifist who wants to scrap Trident.

17/01/16 10:54

President Barack Obama revealed in his annual YouTube interview that he carries an array of trinkets around with him to remind himself of people he has met during his presidency.

17/01/16 09:09

Hail to the chief for telling America that he is gonna cure cancer once and for all. Cancer is personal. It’s personal for Joe Biden, Obama’s wingman on this so-called ‘cancer moonshot’ mission.

17/01/16 06:12

The family of Robert Levinson, 67, a former FBI agent and CIA contractor who went missing on the Iranian island of Kish in 2007, say officials have wasted an opportunity to bring him home.

15/01/16 20:44

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will spend the next six months developing guidance for automakers builsing self-driving prototype cars.

15/01/16 15:45

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio declared Clinton 'wouldn't just be a disaster. Hillary Clinton is disqualified from being commander-in-chief of the United States.'

15/01/16 07:33

The White House made a very embarrassing misspelling on Twitter on Thursday during President Obama's post-State of the Union town hall meeting.meeting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

14/01/16 20:39

'No. No. No, no, no,' Barack Obama told a town hall attendee today in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after he asked if FLOTUS could be convinced to launch a White House bid.

14/01/16 13:22

Fears of an EU stitch up intensified last night after it emerged Barack Obama could be deployed as a key weapon by Downing Street in the middle of the referendum campaign.

14/01/16 12:15

Is President Obama completing some of fictional President Josiah Bartlet's unfinished business? Bartlet had wanted to propose finding a cancer cure on 'The West Wing.'

14/01/16 06:51

The president also cautioned his fans at the University of Nebraska Omaha that he can't serve 'four more years' because the Constitution forbids it – and 'because Michelle would kill me!'

13/01/16 23:20

'I'm going to go to the members' chapel,' King said, 'where I'm going to pray for the restoration of our Constitution,' Iowa right-winger Steve King told reporters.

13/01/16 20:30

Neither mentioned Trump by name, but their comments were pointedly directed at the bombastic presidential candidate who is running circles around his opponents in the GOP race.

13/01/16 19:18

The Florida Senator and presidential hopeful looked heavy-eyed and sleepy as he listened to President Barack Obama as he delivered his final State of the Union address to Congress.

13/01/16 18:32

In his first address to congress seven years ago, a 47-year-old commander-in-chief had jet-black hair, smooth skin and only minor wrinkles - despite the stresses of a two-year election campaign.

13/01/16 17:26

Obama indirectly chastised Trump for following in the footsteps of those 'who promised to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control.'

13/01/16 17:10

President Obama's final line similar to the one Coach Taylor would tell his players on the show Friday Night Lights before they took the field, saying; 'Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.'

13/01/16 17:08

It was a back-slapper of a line and now President Obama's boast – 'ask Obama bin Laden' – has taken on even more life online with Twitter users adding it to pictures and GIFs.

13/01/16 17:00

Michelle opted for a signature sleeveless look - a showstopping yellow wool and silk dress from Narciso Rodriguez priced at more than $2,000 which sold out within 20 minutes.

13/01/16 16:48

The President made the comment during his State of the Union speech suggesting the troubled region was 'going through a transformation that will play out for a generation'.

13/01/16 16:33

Kim Davis was given tickets to the president's final State of the Union address, an invitation-only event, by one of Congressman Jim Jordan's staff.

13/01/16 14:59

'We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion,' the president said during his annual speech. That was seen as a slap at Trump's call for a halt to Muslims entering the U.S.

13/01/16 12:55

They'll quiz Obama on Friday in the East Room, where replicas of the sets they use for their web videos are being constructed, for 10-12 minutes each.

13/01/16 09:49

President Obama left Capitol Hill Tuesday with a mixed victory in his final State of the Union speech - frustrating critics, pleasing supporters - and even leaving some strains of bipartisanship in the air

13/01/16 08:51

Joe Biden, who lost his 46-year old son to brain cancer last year, received a standing ovation from lawmakers as Obama made the announcement during his final State of the Union address.

13/01/16 08:42

Sure, Nikki Haley whacked President Obama's record during her GOP response, but she hinted that those screaming the loudest in the Republican primary deserve some ire too.

13/01/16 07:56

'It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency — that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better,' Obama said during his final State of the Union adsress to the U.S. Capitol.

13/01/16 04:18

'Our answer' to terrorism 'needs to be more than tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians,' Obama said. Cruz vowed in December to 'carpet bomb them into oblivion' as president.

12/01/16 21:50

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera was arrested on Friday in a raid in his home state of Sinaloa, six months after he staged a prison break from Mexico's most secure penitentiary.

12/01/16 20:51

Unlike GOP candidates, whose messages center on 'fearing the future and being anxious and insecure about a changing world,' Obama's speech on Tuesday night will be rooted in 'optimism.'

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