Brian Hughes is a White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner. He previously covered the Maryland statehouse and Montgomery County, Md., government for The Examiner. Hughes is a graduate of the University of Georgia.
By Brian Hughes | 06/19/13 05:05 PM
President Obama is nearly set to roll out a fresh blueprint to combat climate change, which will include tighter rules for power plants, a push for more energy-efficient buildings and appliances and additional green energy development on public lands, a White House official said Wednesday....
By Brian Hughes | 06/19/13 01:15 PM
President Obama’s call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles by one-third ran into immediate opposition in both Washington and Moscow, with officials from both countries questioning the need for such a sharp cut in their weapons arsenals. Obama’s proposal, which he made...
By Brian Hughes | 06/19/13 11:00 AM
President Obama on Wednesday called for the United States and Russia to reduce their arsenals of nuclear weapons by up to one-third, using a speech at the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to renew a long-stalled push for disarmament. “We may not live in fear of nuclear annihilation, but as...
By Brian Hughes | 06/18/13 06:05 PM
President Obama will make his encore on the German stage with a speech at Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday, returning as a mere mortal rather than the rock star who captivated a country looking for a transcendent U.S. political figure five years ago. In 2008, then-candidate...
By Brian Hughes | 06/18/13 11:55 AM
President Obama and other world leaders at the G-8 summit Tuesday agreed in calling for an end to the two-year civil war in Syria, but the U.S. and its allies could not convince Russia to unite behind a call for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad. As expected, Russian President...
By Brian Hughes | 06/18/13 10:10 AM
President Obama in a wide-ranging interview that aired late Monday gave a robust defense of his administration’s phone and Internet surveillance programs and his decision to provide light weapons to the Syrian anti-government rebels, seeking to push back against growing criticism of his...
By Brian Hughes | 06/17/13 05:15 PM
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin emerged from two hours of talks Monday no closer to a compromise for curtailing a civil war in Syria that has killed more than 93,000 people. “With respect to Syria, we do have different perspectives on the problems, but we share an...
By Brian Hughes | 06/17/13 10:40 AM
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Northern Ireland on Monday, when the two will square off over the United States’ decision to provide Syrian anti-government rebels with weapons. The rare meeting of the two leaders, who have...
By Brian Hughes | 06/17/13 10:00 AM
President Obama’s approval rating has plummeted to 45 percent amid a series of controversies in recent weeks, according to a poll released Monday. A new CNN/ORC International survey found that Obama’s approval rating has fallen eight percentage points in the past month, as revelations...
By Brian Hughes | 06/16/13 03:05 PM
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said on Sunday that lawmakers needed to beef up the border-security portions of a Senate immigration bill but that most of the blueprint should obtain bipartisan support. “I think it’s an excellent starting point,” Rubio said on ABC’s “This Week” about the...
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Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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Read More...The Obama administration announced on Tuesday that it was moving forward with its attempt to negotiate with the Taliban, which has opened a long-awaited political office in Doha, Qatar. The...
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