U.S. President Barack Obama honored the people closest to him, including First Lady Michelle Obama, during his farewell address in Chicago on Tuesday (January 10) night. “You made the White House a place that belongs to everybody. And a new generation sets its sights higher because it has you as a role model,” Obama told […]
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Outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday (November 24) wished Americans a happy Thanksgiving in his weekly address. Obama urged his countrymen and women to stay united in the wake of the divisive presidential election. “As a country, we’ve just emerged from a noisy, passionate, and sometimes divisive campaign season. After all, elections are often […]
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The Pentagon has sent nine Yemeni men to Saudi Arabia from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo, including an inmate who had been on a long-term hunger strike, U.S. officials said on Saturday, the latest step in President Barack Obama’s final push to close the facility. The group was the largest shipped out of the […]
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Faith Matters warmly welcomes the release of Shaker Aamer after 14 long years. Many of them were spent in the legal black hole that is Guantanamo and it is clear that the long periods of solitary confinement have also had an impact on his mental and physical health. Yet, it should never have come to […]
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