Susan Crabtree

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Obama delivers race speech at Dallas police memorial

National Security

Obama delivers race speech at Dallas police memorial

Susan Crabtree · July 12, 2016 7:01 pm

America is interested in a desire —œfor a peaceful resolution to disputes in competing claims in the region.—£ (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

National Security

WH: South China Sea ruling ‘final and binding’

Susan Crabtree · July 12, 2016 6:26 pm

Obama wanted to "offer his and the first lady's condolences on behalf of the American people." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama calls families of shooting victims en route to Dallas

Susan Crabtree · July 12, 2016 5:57 pm

So far, the president hasn’t been able to harness the power of the bully pulpit to bring the nation together and unify behind a solution. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Can Obama get the bully pulpit working again?

Susan Crabtree · July 12, 2016 4:01 am

Josh Earnest said the decision to send more troops to Iraq is "entirely consistent" with the strategy President Obama laid out committing U.S. forces to support Iraqi forces in "taking the fight" to the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

White House defends sending more troops to Iraq

Susan Crabtree · July 11, 2016 7:21 pm

President Obama outlined the experience and stability theme for Hillary Clinton at his first campaign stop last week with the presumptive Democratic nominee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Dems want Clinton to ditch Obama

Susan Crabtree · July 11, 2016 4:01 am

The president must take his focus off NATO to return to a country divided. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama returns from Europe to a nation on edge

Susan Crabtree · July 9, 2016 3:37 pm

As the reports came in about the sniper attacks on police in Dallas Thursday night, former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., called for Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post, declaring that "this is now war." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House: Walsh, other critics casting ‘aspersions’

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 9:17 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, "Too many innocent lives have been claimed because of the easy access people have to guns — in some cases, guns that were never intended to be on city streets." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

White House again calls for gun control after Dallas attacks

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 7:41 pm

The American flag also will fly half staff at all U.S. military posts, all public buildings and grounds. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama orders flags flown at half-staff for Dallas victims

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 5:01 pm

Emerging from a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda, President Obama said the U.S. will serve as the lead nation for the beefed-up troop presence in Poland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama: U.S. to send 1K troops to Poland

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 2:10 pm

President Obama called on NATO leaders to remain united against Russian aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama dismisses Brexit ‘hyperbole’

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 11:20 am