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President Barack Obama walks to Marine One as he leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, after visiting wounded service members. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama to guest-edit Wired magazine

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), shows a Syrian man carrying a girl away from the rubble of a destroyed building after barrel bombs were dropped on the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. Syria activists said, at least 15 civilians have been killed when suspected government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a wake for children killed in earlier airstrikes in rebel-held Aleppo. (Aleppo Media Center via AP)

On Syria, Democrats look to deflect the conversation

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

This frame grab from Tuesday, January 12, 2016 video by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency, shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. The 10 U.S. Navy sailors detained by Iran after their two small boats allegedly drifted into Iranian territorial waters around one of Iran's Persian Gulf islands a day earlier have been freed, the United States and Iran said Wednesday. (IRIB News Agency via AP)

Iran confrontations reveal Obama nuclear deal having little effect on Tehran’s behavior

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is the target of the same accusations she lobbed at Barack Obama in the 2008 campaign. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton haunted by her own ‘pay-to-play’ attacks against Obama

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

An "All Gender Restroom" sign hangs outside a bathroom in a bar in Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Federal court blocks Obama’s transgender bathroom order

By Bradford Richardson and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this May 24, 2014, file photo, China's Harbin (112) guided missile destroyer takes part in a week-long China-Russia &quot;Joint Sea-2014&quot; navy exercise at the East China Sea off Shanghai, China. Several Asian nations are arming up, their wary eyes fixed squarely on one country: a resurgent China that’s boldly asserting its territorial claims all along the East Asian coast. The scramble to spend more defense dollars comes amid spats with China over contested reefs and waters. Other Asian countries such as India and South Korea are quickly modernizing their forces, although their disputes with China have stayed largely at the diplomatic level. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

China, Russia to hold South China Sea ‘drills’ next month

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, March 31, 2014 file photo, people line up to enroll for health insurance at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, hours before the deadline in the first enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Repeal or retain? Election opens final act for ‘Obamacare’

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Donald Trump tours flood damage as campaign reels from shakeup

By Jill Colvin and Melinda Deslatte - Associated Press

In this file photo of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, Dr. Riek Machar, then-vice president of the Government of South Sudan, presides over an all-southern-parties meeting in Juba, Sudan South. Sudan's rebel leader Machar has fled the country, a spokesman for his party said Thursday, Aug. 18. 2016. (AP Photo/Pete Muller-file)

Riek Machar, South Sudan ex-vice president, flees; fragile peace deal in limbo

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016 photo, a Louisiana Army National Guard dump truck that drove off the road is submerged in flood waters near Walker, La., after heavy rains inundated the region, (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

The Advocate Louisiana paper tells Obama to cut vacation short

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Afghan police walk past Islamic State militant flags after an operation in the Kot district of Jalalabad province in Afghanistan on Aug. 1. (Associated Press)

Obama administration again underestimates ISIS as Afghan affiliate grows into threat

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 29, 2013 file photo, students walk through the halls during an open house for incoming freshman and transfer students at a high school in Philadelphia. A new government survey released Thursday, June 9, 2016 finds a surprising drop in the proportion of high schools kids who are having sex. The survey found 41 percent said they had ever had sex, after it had been about 47 percent from a decade. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Chicago parents seek injunction from transgender bathroom directive as school starts

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

The Border Patrol relies on helicopters from the Office of Air and Marine, which has been reluctant to fly the nighttime hours the agents need, said Brandon Judd, an agent who is also president of the National Border Patrol Council. (Associated Press/File)

Illegal immigration surges past 2015 total with two months still to go in fiscal year

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks during a briefing on the ongoing response to the Zika virus with members of his public health team in the Oval Office of the White House on July 1, 2016. Joining Obama are Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell (left) and Dr. Tom Frieden (center), director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama admin cuts AIDS, drug rehab funding for Zika fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2014, photo, Central American migrants ride a freight train during their journey toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Ixtepec, Mexico. The number of family units and unaccompanied children arrested by Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley has doubled in the first nine months of this fiscal year compared to the same period last year. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Illegal immigrant children, families surge in July

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Marijuana grows at the Ataraxia medical marijuana cultivation center in Albion, Ill., on Sept. 15, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Marijuana reclassification request rejected by DEA

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton took pages from Mr. Obama's economic plans, echoing his calls for an infrastructure bank and a clean energy surge. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton vows to kill Trans-Pacific Partnership she helped negotiate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton took pages from Mr. Obama's economic plans, echoing his calls for an infrastructure bank and a clean energy surge. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton’s stale economics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES