Barack Obama

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Obama team got data from app

Barack Obama’s campaign officials insist they used data in vastly different ways to Cambridge Analytica.

The World

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 7, 2017 Syrian residents of Khan Sheikhun hold placards and pictures during a protest condemning a suspected chemical weapons attack on their town that killed at least 86 people, among them 30 children, and left hundreds suffering symptoms including convulsions, vomiting or foaming at the mouth. The United States is not ruling out fresh military action against the Syrian regime as Washington dials up pressure in a bid to stop sustained chemical weapons attacks, senior administration officials said on February 1, 2018. In the wake of suspected sarin and chlorine attacks -- including one unconfirmed attack in the rebel-held town of Douma on Thursday -- Washington said it wants to send a message to Bashar al-Assad's regime and its Russian backers that enough is enough. / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour

Chemical attacks test leaders

Barack Obama famously had one and Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron clearly set out their own ‘red lines’.

US politics

In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Trump to keep Guantanamo open

Donald Trump has signed a new executive order announcing his intent to keep the US military prison open.

EditorialEditorials

Achievements of unique president

Donald Trump’s tax cuts are transforming the US economy.

CUT AND PASTECut & Paste

Oprah no more qualified than Trump

Democrats told us Hillary’s biggest boon was her experience. Changed their tune?

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Wedding invite Harry can’t send

Prince Harry is asked not to invite a good friend to his wedding to Meghan Markle — because it might upset the US president.

CommentGraham Richardson

Donald Trump’s moment of lunacy

In one moment of sheer lunacy Donald Trump made Barack Obama and George W. Bush look like foreign policy dynamos.

Graham Richardson

CommentWall Street Journal

Sanctimony comes back to bite

Hollywood hypocrites were a reason why Americans turned to Trump. It’s time to lose the smug claims to righteousness.

Holman W. Jenkins and Jr.

Q&A RECAPNational Affairs

‘Like Obama birther conspiracy’

Bill Shorten likens the pressure on him to release citizenship documents to claims about the former US President | WATCH

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Author Clive James at his home in London.

Climate alarmists cop a savaging

Iconic, ailing Australian satirist Clive James has penned a savage essay on climate change alarmism.

Trent Dalton

Inquirer

Photo by Corporal Neil RuskinCaption: Queen of the Kids. Captain Alli Gillam, a mother of a seven year old boy herself, enjoys a friendly chat and play with Afghan children in Southern Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province.Mid Caption: Captain Alli Gillam knew the Australian Reconstruction Task Force had made a breakthrough in winning the confidence of the Afghan people when the mothers of Oruzgan Province began allowing her to play with their children.Captain Gillam, a mother of a seven year old boy, is a Liaison Officer to the multi-national Task Force Oruzgan, and has become a big hit with the local kids.Not so long ago it was not uncommon for soldiers to have rocks thrown at them by the local population, but the people of Oruzgan Province now know that the Australian Reconstruction Task Force is committed to helping create an environment that is safe, secure and free of the oppressive Taliban extremists who once stood over the people.

Soldiers can’t rebuild nations

Let’s not repeat our mistakes in Afghanistan.

David Kilcullen

Clive Palmer

Clive a no-show at Obama dinner

When the JFK Library honoured Barack Obama with an award for political courage, there was a notable Aussie absentee.

Sarah Elks

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Clive Palmer, his son Michael and Teddy Kennedy at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Palmer not our host: JFK library

Clive Palmer says he needs to be in the US in May to host a dinner for Barack Obama, but the JFK Library denies this.

Cameron Stewart

US politics

President Donald Trump gives thumbs up at the American Center for Mobility, Wednesday, March 15, 2017, in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

‘No evidence’ of Trump tap

Republican head of House Intelligence Committee says he’s seen no evidence to support the President’s wire-tapping claims.

Cameron Stewart

The World

TOPSHOT - US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama kiss as they prepare to greet President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania to the White House in Washington, DC January 20, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON

Massive payday for Obamas

Penguin Random House signs a bumper book deal with Barack and Michelle Obama reportedly for an insane amount.

Alex Shephard

US politics

In this Feb. 24, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md. Trump's first address to Congress gives him a welcome opportunity to refocus his young administration on the core economic issues that helped him get elected â€” and, his allies hope, to move beyond the distractions and self-inflicted wounds that have roiled his White House. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump blames Obama on protests

President Donald Trump says he believes President Barack Obama is behind some of the protests against Republicans.

Inquirer

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 16, 2015 shows refugees standing behind a fence at the Hungarian border with Serbia near the town of Horgos. A year ago, the tragic death of a three-year-old Syrian boy shocked Europe as an unprecedented crisis saw hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees arrive on the continent. The Czech Republic and Slovakia follow suit and reinstate border controls, while Hungary builds a reinforced fence on its frontier with Serbia. Starting in February 2016, several southeastern European countries shut their borders to migrants, including Macedonia, Slovenia and Croatia -- effectively closing the Balkan migrant route. / AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI

History haunts US policy failures

Obama’s Syrian inaction echoed the appeasement of Nazi Germany.

Walter Russell Mead and Nicholas M. Gallagher

commentGreg Sheridan

PM’s mistake was with Obama

Malcolm Turnbull’s mistake with the US was strategic, not tactical, and involved Barack Obama, not Donald Trump.

Greg Sheridan

Inquirer

Portland's Alcoa aluminium smelter may be shutting down. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Fossils renewed

Energy policy at home and abroad is adjusting to a new world order.

Graham Lloyd

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President Donald Trump, center, gestures after signing two executive action at the Pentagon in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, with Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, at his side. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

PM confident as Trump suspends refugees

Malcolm Turnbull believes the President’s suspension of the US refugee program will not scupper an asylum-seeker deal he struck with Barack Obama.

US politics

President Donald Trump dances with first lady Melania Trump at the Liberty Ball, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump begins agenda for US, other nations

President Donald Trump moved to start dismantling Obamacare on his first day, and Washington prepared for a huge Women’s March.

Cut & Paste

Trump’s four-year boredom drought

In contrast to Barack Obama, Donald Trump offers a lack of inner change we certainly can believe in.

US politics

Tourists take photos of flags around the Washington Monument in Washington , DC on January 18, 2017. Washington DC is preparing the Inauguration of Donald Trump to take place January 20, 2017 at the US Capitol. / AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY

Trump at the gate

The changing of the guard is under way as hundreds of thousands of Donald Trump supporters descend on Washington.

Cameron Stewart

The World

President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama warns Trump over Israel

Barack Obama says Donald Trump deserves space to pursue agenda, but should tread carefully on such issues as Israel.

Carol E.Lee

Greg Sheridan

China's President Xi Jinping looks on at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Xi and Obama fuel US revolt

Xi Jinping and Barack Obama have taken actions which do much to explain why Donald Trump is triumphant.

Greg Sheridan

Troy Bramston

Obama: the hit and miss man

Obama wasn’t able to bridge the gap between hope and history that his personal story and soaring rhetoric promised.

Troy Bramston

CommentOpinion

President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, where Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. An unusually young ex-president, Barack Obama has a busy life awaiting him after he leaves the White House. There's a library to build, money to raise, causes to fight for and a book to write. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama’s hollow cry: ‘yes we can’

The outgoing US president, Barack Obama, struggled to live up to the hopes many of his people invested in him.

TOM SWITZER

Greg Sheridan

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Surly Obama makes a fine mess

The UN resolution on Israel is a deeply unsettling final act of folly by outgoing US President Barack Obama.

Greg Sheridan

Cut & Paste

Taxpayers don’t foot MONA bills

Forget about the electoral college, Barack Obama reckons he could’ve won a third term.

commentGreg Sheridan

President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama delivers hit to democracy

Barack Obama’s presidency is ending with a fine contempt for democracy.

Greg Sheridan

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