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This taken on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 photo and provided by the Fontana (Calif.) Police Department on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014, shows a stolen 2014 Ferrari 458 Spider. The Riverside Press-Enterprise reported that Fontana Police arrested Earnie Hooks, of Los Angeles, for stealing the same Ferrari, twice. Court records say he’s pleaded not guilty to car theft and resisting police. (AP Photo/Fontana Police Department)

EDITORIAL: Making war on supercars

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on the EPA's harming of the low-income, minority and elderly by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

DRIESSEN: Phony ‘environmental justice’ at EPA

By Paul Driessen

aftermath: Syrians sift through the rubble of a house targeted by coalition airstrikes in the village of Kfar Derian. Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. strikes against Islamic State group strongholds hours before the bombing began. (Associated Press)

Obama use of Sept. 11 authority for Syria airstrikes questioned

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) launches Tomahawk cruise missiles, in the Arabian Gulf, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Syria said Tuesday that Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group, hours before an American-led military coalition pounded the extremists' strongholds across northern and eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Carlos M. Vazquez II, U.S. Navy)

Obama administration: ‘No coordination’ with Assad on bombing campaign

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, shakes hands with United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed before a meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Sunni Muslims remain wary of military cooperation with U.S.

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

U.S. military starts bombing ISIS targets in Syria with aid of partner nations

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama listens to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speak after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama and immigration: High hopes, a mixed record

Associated Press

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The agency has been under fire for what critics say are politically motivated attacks against conservative organizations. (Associated Press)

Treasury, IRS crack down on ‘inversion’ tax breaks for businesses leaving U.S.

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

"Enough is enough, and they need to provide answers to why they think illegal immigrants should be eligible for Obamacare." Sen. David Vitter said. (Associated Press)

Illegals on Obamacare? Feds set to bounce 115,000 from program who can’t prove citizenship

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - In this undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State group, march in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group will likely take center stage when more than 140 heads of state of government convene for the U.N. General Assembly the week of Sept. 22. (AP Photo/File)

UN to bind nations on new foreign terrorist rules

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

This Sept. 21, 2009, photo provided by Jerry Murphy shows Omar Gonzalez, who was married to Murphy's mother, Samantha, until they divorced in 2012. Authorities have identified Gonzalez as the man who got into the White House after scaling a fence on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Courtesy Jerry Murphy)

Accused White House intruder to appear in court

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The draft resolution of the U.N. General Assembly on Ukraine is "confrontational in nature", Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Thursday, March 27. "Russia&#8217;s attitude towards the proposed draft resolution is negative. It is confrontational in nature," he said before the vote in the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Obama needs no U.N. approval to order airstrikes in Syria, ambassador says

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Before the First Shots’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

A Secret Service police officer holds a weapon as he stands near an entrance to the White House complex during an evacuation minutes after President Barack Obama departed Washington for Camp David aboard Marine One on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. A Secret Service agent at the scene says someone jumped the fence surrounding the White House. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secret Service under fire for White House security breach: ‘Was the door open?’

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

File - In this Sept. 5, 2014 file photo Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, left, accompanied by Mayor Michael Nutter, speaks with members of the media at Montgomery Early Learning Centers' Families First Center, in Philadelphia. Castro, confirmed in July 2014, as U.S. secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told The Associated Press that “for the work that HUD does, and the housing market in general, Hispanics truly are the future.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Castro: Hispanics key to US housing sector future

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, right, talk before the start of a House Homeland Security Full Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. The U.S. is able to track Westerners who travel to and from Syria, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said. But inside Syria, there are intelligence gaps. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

VANNESS: A blind eye to homeland threats

By Alex VanNess

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Hagel reiterated that if the Islamic State militants are left unchecked, they will threaten the United States and its allies. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Hagel: Obama has ‘constitutional and statutory authority’ to wage war on ISIL

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Winston Churchill Associated Press photo

PRUDEN: Obama’s coalition of the unwilling

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, joined by Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, right, and Vice President Joe Biden, left, waves after addressing a joint meeting of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. Poroshenko is seeking more robust U.S military assistance to help his country in its fight against Russian-backed rebels and will also be meeting with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

White House pledges additional aid to Ukraine in fight against Russian-backed separatists

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014 photo, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Speaking to a small group of reporters after meeting with his French counterpart on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 in Paris, Dempsey said it will take three or four months to begin the $500 million training program, which the House approved on Wednesday and sent to the Senate, where members of both parties predicted easy passage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US: Syrian rebel training may take 12 months

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press