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Cesar Sayoc is sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending pipe bombs to CNN and several prominent U.S. Democrats including former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden last year.
2019-08-5

The Supreme Court deadlocks (4–4) in the challenge to President Barack Obama's executive order that set up the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans plan, which could have shielded up to five million illegal immigrants. The tie leaves in place an earlier ruling against the plan.
2016-06-23

United States President Barack Obama, in Antalya, Turkey, says America will continue to accept refugees from Syria and elsewhere, though, "Only after subjecting them to rigorous screening and security checks." Responding to calls to admit Christians but not Muslims into the country, he said, "We don’t have religious tests to our compassion."
2015-11-16

U.S. President Barack Obama is set to send Special Operations forces to regions in northern Syria under Kurdish control to help local forces fight the Islamic State.
2015-10-30

United States President Barack Obama telephoned MSF International President Joanne Liu to apologize for the U.S. bombing of the hospital in Afghanistan, express his condolences for the 22 people killed, commit to provide a transparent, thorough, and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident, and implement any changes to make tragedies like this one less likely to occur in the future.
2015-10-7

President of the United States Barack Obama meets Pope Francis for the first time since Francis' inauguration.
2014-03-27

The President of the United States Barack Obama urges Americans in the path of the hurricane to take appropriate precautions for a "historic storm".
2011-08-26

The United States Senate passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling in order to avert the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis and President Barack Obama signs it into law.
2011-08-2

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron gifts President of the United States Barack Obama a painting, "Twenty First Century City", by graffiti artist Ben Eine, while Obama gifts Cameron a signed lithograph, "Column with Speed Lines", by Edward Ruscha.
2010-07-21

President Obama nominates Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the youngest Justice and third woman for the Supreme Court of the United States.
2010-05-10