Former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama fought to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, with the former reducing the prisoner count to 15. But President Donald Trump clearly doesn't agree with the approach and wants to fill GITMO with 30,
Trump said earlier Wednesday that the U.S. has "30,000 beds in Guantánamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people."
The US has maintained a migrant detention facility there for decades that is separate from the notorious high-security jail for foreign terror suspects, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The proposed constitutional amendment excludes presidents who served two consecutive terms, such as former President Barack Obama, from a third term.
This page lists the candidates for office endorsed by Barack Obama. According to Politico, Obama had not traditionally endorsed candidates prior to the 2016 election, when he prepared a list of 150 candidates in state and federal elections he would endorse.
President Joe Biden's record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed.
Here are what members of the Obama administration are up to today. Then: Loretta Lynch made history as the first Black woman to serve as the attorney general of the United States from 2015 to 2017. Lynch made police reform a priority of the Department of Justice and fought for LGBTQ+ rights.
Donald Trump inherits a Middle East that looks dramatically different from the one his administration left in 2021.
Senator Cruz said that Michelle Obama would be an "incredibly formidable" candidate for the White house as polls show both parties struggling to open a lead.
Of the 780 people ever detained at Guantánamo, 540 were released during the presidency of George W. Bush, who established the detention facility. Obama, who signed an executive order on his second day in office pledging to close Guantánamo within a year, released 200.
The Kenyan-American businessman says "bad actors" convinced him to launch the meme coin, which crashed only hours after launching.