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10:15AM: President Obama meets with the Dalai Lama
12:30PM: Daily Briefing with Press Secretary Josh Earnest
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First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey speak at the White House Summit on the United State of Women
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President Barack Obama speaks on the Orlando shooting at the Treasury Department while Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper look on. President Obama rebuked Donald Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States
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President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Summit on the United State Of Women
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Watch a crowd serenade President Obama with chants of '4 more years!' https://t.co/GBbSoH7uLq
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 6, 2016
Panama Papers: US launches crackdown on international tax evasion https://t.co/rPM61tA3Jw
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) May 6, 2016
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Just to review: a white nationalist became a Trump delegate, his butler suggested Obama be hanged and David Duke offered to be VP this week
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) May 12, 2016
On Facebook, Trump's Longtime Butler Calls for Obama to be Killed. (Really. This is no joke) https://t.co/LNeQGhNMul pic.twitter.com/wXHyFtSrDU
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) May 12, 2016
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Secret Service: "The U.S. Secret Service is aware of this matter and will conduct the appropriate investigation." https://t.co/MSIiaDlegU
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) May 12, 2016
Zonder verder commentaar. #4mei pic.twitter.com/jKEDv8i4qN
— Nadine Böke (@NadineBoke) May 4, 2016
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A brilliant and warm conversation with President Obama and Bryan Cranston https://t.co/Nz1TwVXWSL pic.twitter.com/KYgY9PwELJ
— meta (@metaquest) May 6, 2016
@POTUS continues to add to his amazing legacy => White House poised to create first monument to gay rights https://t.co/TgAyOzFPnX
— Nancy LeTourneau 🇺🇦 (@Smartypants60) May 3, 2016
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Even by Trumpian standards, this is some amazing word salad. https://t.co/Y2WUKfXW0K pic.twitter.com/imZ4NRmuqS
— Lauren Kelley (@lauren_kelley) May 4, 2016
"I'm voting for Hillary" -- thing multiple GOP operatives have told me tonight
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) May 4, 2016
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President Obama to Local News Reporters: Give Supreme Court Nominee Judge Garland a Vote https://t.co/EeFYYKtMcd
— The WH Blog (NARA) (@blog44) May 4, 2016
Chief of staff for GOP state sen in WI quit after seeing legislators "giddy" over Voter ID law impact on minorities: https://t.co/bdXSGemOk3
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) May 2, 2016
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Of 346 black people killed by police, only 2 cases have led to convictions. https://t.co/0WDlgUjXDN pic.twitter.com/eHJbQjhnox
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) May 2, 2016
Johnson & Johnson loses another court case over talcum powder and cancer https://t.co/hAY76af61m
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) May 3, 2016
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Up to $800m in cash held by ISIS has been destroyed in air strikes, a US military official says https://t.co/pVqnhG4bv4
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 2, 2016
JUST IN: Cpt. Kristen Griest to become 1st female Army Infantry officer in US history. https://t.co/XjxvoMvzqc pic.twitter.com/Ok3MfgDBEq
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) April 27, 2016
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What Beyoncé teaches us about the African diaspora in #LEMONADE https://t.co/uE4bvPal00 pic.twitter.com/sVrssYz35L
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) May 2, 2016
Wow. This scene invokes a mass suicide by captured Africans who chose freedom of death over slavery. #Lemonade pic.twitter.com/TOOixGA8Yt
— ashley yates (@brownblaze) May 5, 2016
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Watch Aretha Franklin's jaw-dropping Prince tribute at the White House jazz concert https://t.co/1vdLmQNJq7 pic.twitter.com/TGwpPVFcVr
— billboard (@billboard) May 2, 2016
These bedtime stories trade princesses for women who changed the world https://t.co/AEd8srmTyt pic.twitter.com/wl8J3P9HHY
— HuffPost BlackVoices (@blackvoices) May 2, 2016
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https://twitter.com/RespectTheAfro_/status/726893411354161158
Racist Twitter clutches it’s pearls because Old Navy tweeted an interracial family https://t.co/FNi6QRC3mS pic.twitter.com/wsjgFEv2Io
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 1, 2016
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Chobani Yogurt founder transfers a valuable piece of the company to every laborer - quite a story: https://t.co/IZzlT0AvDo
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) May 1, 2016
THIS. IS. AWESOME. https://t.co/8jH7FvE4Rr
— Jim Weber (@JimMWeber) May 5, 2016
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https://twitter.com/myblackmindd/status/726618897303007232
White conservatives are complaining that Larry Wilmore uttered "nigga"? And Republicans are about to nominate a dude endorsed by the Klan.
— Jamil Smith جميل كريم (@JamilSmith) May 1, 2016
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https://twitter.com/jeremyjewitt/status/726624998836736000
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race"https://t.co/vfugZHXJsi
— Sam White (@samwhiteout) April 26, 2016
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President Barack Obama delivers a statement on economy in the James Brady Press Briefing Room. President Obama made a statement in response to the Treasury Department announcement on corporate tax inversions that would stop companies from avoiding U.S. taxes by moving their tax base overseas
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First Lady Michelle Obama plants the White House Kitchen Garden with students. The garden which Mrs. Obama started in 2009, provides fruits and vegetables to the White House kitchen and homeless shelters
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President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with combatant commanders and Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Cabinet Room of the White House
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks to University of Pittsburgh students about their role in preventing sexual assault as part of the It’s On Us campaign
President Barack Obama speaks during the White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit. President Obama announced the precision medicine initiative last year to accelerate research efforts into new treatments that are tailored to individual patients
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moderator Dr. James Hamblin, Sonia Vallabh, Ph.D. student at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Howard Look, president and founder of Tidepool, and Dr. W. Marston Linehan, chief of the urologic oncology branch at the National Cancer Institute
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Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Brett McGurk, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford stand alongside President Barack Obama as he makes a statement after meeting with his National Security Council at the State Department
President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the counter-ISIL campaign in the Pentagon briefing room in Arlington, Virginia
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First Lady Michelle Obama arrives with Stephen Orzechowski to read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” to a group of children at the Childrens National Health System in Washington
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