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Illustration on Obama's national security legacy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

FRED GEDRICH: Obama’s national security legacy

By Fred Gedrich

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Governors Association Meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Replacing Antonin Scalia: What’s at stake

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Feb. 10, 2016, file photo. Grassley has a major say on whether President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court even gets a hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

All eyes on Iowa’s Chuck Grassley for Supreme Court nominee’s fate

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigns Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Donald Trump: ‘I will do more for the African-American people than Barack Obama has ever done’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this April 30, 2015, photo, people gather in front of the Puerto Rico's Capitol building to protest against Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla's budget proposal for the next fiscal year in San Juan. Authorities announced on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016, that Puerto Rico's worsening economic crisis has forced it to revise a fiscal reform plan to reflect a jump in the island's projected deficit and a steep drop in anticipated revenue. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo, File)

Puerto Rico’s health system requires changes, HHS says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Obama waves as he boards Air Force One. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Our man in Havana

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson listens to a question after speaking at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, in Dearborn, Mich., in this Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

DHS adds Somalia, Yemen and Libya to anti-terror travel list

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Judicial Crisis Network announced a seven-figure advertising campaign defending Republican senators up for re-election this year vowing to block an Obama Supreme Court nominee, including Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. (Associated Press)

Conservatives defend vulnerable senators vowing to block Obama Supreme Court nominee

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

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U.S. planned unprecedented cyberattack on Iran if nuke talks failed: report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 2, 2016 photo, military guards exit an area known as Camp Delta at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, in Cuba. After 14 years, the detention center appears to be winding down despite opposition in Congress to President Barack Obama's intent to close the facility and confine the remaining prisoners someplace else. (AP Photo/Ben Fox)

FRANK GAFFNEY: U.S. military won’t obey unlawful Gitmo order

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

In this July 30, 2015, file photo, a sign supporting Medicare is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington as registered nurses and other community leaders celebrate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Government, private insurers find common ground on quality health care

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, center, speaks at the plenary session meeting of ASEAN, the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. President Obama is hosting the ASEAN leaders, it is the first meeting of its kind on U.S. soil, as he looks to deepen ties with the region's fast-growing economies. Sitting with Obama are Laos President Choummaly Sayasone, left, and Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

ASEAN summit: Obama to wrap meeting with Southeast Asian leaders

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Changing Campaign Financing Rules Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

JOHN PUDNER: An executive order on transparency conservatives could support

By John Pudner

Walt Whitlow uses a powers sander on a project at his home, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016, in Leander, Texas. Whitlow was undergoing cancer treatment when he learned his premiums for coverage under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law quadrupled and his deductible went from $900 to $4,600. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Cancer patients snagged in health law’s tangled paperwork

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. When President Barack Obama welcomes Southeast Asian leaders for a shirt-sleeves summit in California this week, he’ll have some interesting dining companions. There will be a coup leader with a penchant for song, a sultan with a taste for the high life and a ruthless prime minister with 31 years on the job. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Strongmen to predominate at Obama’s SE Asia summit

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Chart to accompany Moore article of Feb. 15, 2016

STEPHEN MOORE: Progrssives’ budget to nowhere

By Stephen Moore

President Barack Obama speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. The annual event brings together U.S. and international leaders from different parties and religions for an hour devoted to faith. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s timid rebuke of violent Christian oppression

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, file photograph, water flows through a series of retention ponds after a spill at the Gold King mine near Silverton, Colo. On Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency said that the 3 million gallon spill from the gold mine may have dumped more than 880,000 pounds of metals into the Animas River. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, file)

House panel report slams EPA for Animas River spill, accuses administration of concealing details

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

After a speech at the Illinois State Capitol, President Barack Obama stops at the Hoogland Center for the Arts in Springfield, Ill.(Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune via AP)

DON FEDER: Obama is no incompetent

By Don Feder

President Obama's moneyed backers of 2008 have thus far remained on the sidelines rather than funding the campaigns of either former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton fails to galvanize Obama’s top donors

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times