(CNN)-- Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday. She was 86. At a rally in Charlotte, North ...

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama will take a break from campaigning Thursday so he can visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, an Obama spokesman said Monday. "Sen. Obama's grandmother Madelyn Dunham ...

Barack Obama, the former Illinois senator and two-term commander-in-chief, has kept busy since he left office in 2017.

“She was a loving and celebrated philanthropist who graciously shared the little she had with the less fortunate in her community,” he added. Sarah Hussein Onyango Obama, the step-grandmother ...

Barack Obama’s early years were influenced by his parent’s mixed-race marriage, divorce, life in a new country and adolescent ...