CLEVELAND: US President Barack Obama warned Friday that American “democracy itself” is on the ballot in November’s presidential election, as White House concern grows about the lasting impact of Republican Donald Trump’s scorched-earth campaign. Barack Obama became the latest in a wave of Democrats targeted by bounty-seeking agitators. At a fiery campaign event for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio, Obama trashed Trump as... 

More than 100,000 of those homes would be in Maryland and Virginia, according to the analysis. The real estate data firm Zillow recently published a research analysis that estimated rising sea levels could leave nearly 2 million U.S. homes inundated by 2100, a fate that would displace millions of people and result in property losses in the hundreds of billions of dollars. More than 100,000 of those homes would be in Maryland and Virginia, according... 

President Barack Obama downplayed the notion that violence is increasing in the US, though he conceded that there has been an uptick in violence in some major cities. US President Barack Obama. Violent crime is on the rise so far this year in major cities across the US compared to the number of homicides, rapes, robberies, assaults and shootings that occurred in the same cities by this point in 2015, according to a new report. The midyear violent... 

President Barack Obama on Sunday described the worst mass shooting in U.S. history as  “an act of terror” and “an act of hate,” saying the massacre of 50 people at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida was an attack on all Americans. Obama calls Orlando nightclub shooting an attack on all Americans “Today as Americans we grieve the brutal murder, a horrific massacre of dozens of  innocent people,” he said...