COLUMN. The American president has promised to bring peace to the world and has set his sights on the Nobel Prize, but by ...

Elon Musk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Norwegian libertarian MP Marius Nilsen, who tossed the Tesla ...

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2021 to 2025, has served in Congress, as White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, and as mayor of Chicago. He will spend the next year ...

A letter signed by dozens of experts opposing RFK Jr.'s HHS confirmation is littered with Democratic donors leading some to ...

With 11 days to go until Election Day, Donald Trump can’t stop obsessing about former President Barack Obama having been ...

When the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama, many commentators questioned the choice, as he had become president just 12 days before nominations had closed. The award was "not for ...

The scrutiny can get intense for high-profile awards, such as in 2009, when President Barack Obama won the peace prize less than a year after taking office. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is an ...

Barack Obama, the 44th U.S. president, will visit Poland for the fourth time to speak at the Impact’25 conference in Poznań ...

A rumor circulating online in late January 2025 claimed tech entrepreneur Elon Musk received a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Gašper Pečar, a spokesperson for MEP Branko Grims' Cabinet ...

“Just go to sleep,” Martin Chalfie’s wife told him late one October night in 2008. Chalfie, a Columbia University chemist, had co-authored an influential paper describing a new method for ...

Of the four US presidents who’ve been handed a Nobel Peace Prize–Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama–the one who’d shown the cleanest pair of heels when it comes ...

Musk's rejection of the Nobel Peace Prize follows a long-standing pattern of dismissing formal recognition for his work.