Illinois: Former US president Barack Obama answered a jury summons on Wednesday, but was dismissed soon after arriving at a Chicago courthouse to perform the civic duty asked of all Americans.As a prospective juror, Obama joined fellow citizens at Cook County`s Daley Center courthouse, all waiting ...

WASHINGTON, Nov  20, (APP/AFP) - The Defense Department and broader US government intelligence community have urged President Barack Obama to fire National Security Agency chief Admiral Michael Rogers, US media reported Saturday.The reports came even as President-elect Donald Trump, currently ...

ATHENS (APP): Greek police fired tear gas and stun grenades against protesters marching on central Athens Tuesday where US President Barack Obama was making his last foreign trip as head of state.Barack Obama warns Donald TrumpSome 2,500 people brandishing banners denouncing US imperialism and ...

UNITED NATIONS: (APP) Barack Obama used his farewell UN address Tuesday to castigate strongmen and populists, taking aim at Russia's Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump's rise at home.Obama told the UN General Assembly that democracy was a better path toward prosperity than the "crude populism" that is ...

VIENTIANE (APP) - US President Barack Obama warned Beijing Thursday it could not ignore a tribunal's ruling rejecting its sweeping claims to the South China Sea, driving tensions higher in a territorial row that threatens regional security.The dispute has raised fears of military confrontation ...

WASHINGTON: (APP) The US military has closed a maximum-security detention center at Guantanamo Bay, an official said Thursday, as the controversial prison's population continues to dwindle.Guantanamo's Camp 5 lockup, built in 2004 at a cost of $17 million, closed August 19 and will be converted ...

WHITE PLAINS: (APP) US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Thursday slammed her Republican opponent Donald Trump's recent praise for President Vladimir Putin as "scary."Responding to Trump's claim that the Russian strongman is "far more" of a leader than President Barack Obama, the Democrat ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - Is President Barack Obama already thinking about his next job? In the coming months, he will guest-edit an issue of tech-focused Wired magazine.It is the first time a sitting president has guest-edited a magazine, the publication said Tuesday, announcing that Obama's November ...

WASHINGTON (APP) - Donald Trump on Wednesday received his first classified intelligence briefing, a privilege reserved for presidential candidates from the two main political parties.The Republican nominee attended the briefing -- organized by the office of the director of national intelligence -- ...

BEIJING (APP) - The US will continue naval patrols in the disputed South China Sea, Washington's National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Chinese representatives during a series of meetings in Beijing, a senior American official said Tuesday.Rice is among the highest-level US officials to visit ...