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Barack and Michelle Obama, among others, not in attendance at Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral

Barack and Michelle Obama skipped the funeral of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney. On Thursday, hundreds of dignitaries filled the pews of Washington National Cathedral to say goodbye to the former VP, who died on Nov. 3 at age 84 — but a few notable names were missing from the crowd. According to People, the Obamas opted to skip the service for reasons that remain unclear. And they weren’t the only absentees. Former President Bill Clinton was also absent […]

todayNovember 21, 2025 4

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Biden and Harris attend, hold hands at funeral for former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman

Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral Saturday, where former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined over 1,000 mourners. Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor has called an assassination. It and another shooting also left her husband, Mark, dead and a state senator and his wife seriously wounded. “Melissa Hortman will be remembered […]

todayJune 30, 2025

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Why Michelle Obama was missing at Jimmy Carter’s funeral

The state funeral of former President Jimmy Carter brought forth a rare sighting in Washington, D.C., politics, as every living current and former U.S. president attended the Thursday service held at the Washington National Cathedral. President Joe Biden, who delivered the eulogy in honor of America’s 39th president, sat in the front row alongside his wife, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Behind them sat former President Bill Clinton, former First Lady […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025 1

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Friends of Foes? Trump shares more about exchange with Obama at Jimmy Carter funeral

President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama‘s exchange at Jimmy Carter’s funeral on Thursday — which included lots of grinning and chuckling — has garnered a lot of attention (and memes) considering their very public animus relationship. A little more than two months ago, Obama was traveling the country warning voters about how dangerous Trump was to American norms and freedoms and how he didn’t care about “anyone but himself.” Sans the election and past warnings about Trump being the […]

todayJanuary 10, 2025

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President Biden, Ambassador Andrew Young honor Jimmy Carter at Washington funeral

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown. The first speaker was Joshua Carter, the former president’s grandson, who recalled how Carter regularly taught Sunday school after leaving the White House. “He built houses for people who needed homes,” Joshua said. “He eliminated diseases in […]

todayJanuary 10, 2025