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President Barack Obama speaks during the American Legion national convention in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Three months after a veterans' health care scandal rocked his administration, President Barack Obama is taking executive action to improve the mental well-being of veterans. The president was to announce his initiatives during an appearance before the American Legion National Convention that is fraught with midterm politics. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Obama seeks to bypass Congress for U.N. climate change deal: report

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, giving the first public comments by a senior Assad official on the threat posed by the Islamic State group, in Damascus, Syria on Monday, August 25, 2014. Al-Moallem warned the U.S. not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression. Al-Moallem also said that Syria is ready to work with regional states and the international community amid the onslaught of Islamic militants there and in Iraq, adding that the Syrian government is a crucial partner in the war on terror. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian official warns US: No unilateral airstrikes

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to provide Congress with a list of documents that are at the center of a long-running battle over a failed law enforcement program called Operation Fast and Furious. In a court proceeding Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set an Oct. 1 deadline for producing the list to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FEULNER: Pulling back the curtain on ‘phony scandals’

By Ed Feulner

Sen. Rand Paul said former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's war record is likely to give independents and even some Democrats pause at the thought of supporting her in 2016.

PRUDEN: No naps for the war-weary

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)

Immigration shaping up as leading election issue

By Erica Werner - Associated Press

Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., greets supporters during a visit to a campaign field office in Goldsboro, N.C., Monday, Aug. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

NC senator braces for Obama’s visit to her state

By JONATHAN DREW and EMERY P. DALESIO - Associated Press

In this image made from undated video obtained by The Associated Press, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a man believed to be Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S. citizen held hostage by an al-Qaida linked group in Syria, delivers a statement. The U.S. government said on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014 that Curtis, who had been held hostage for about two years, had been released. (AP Photo)

American hostage Peter Theo Curtis freed in Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Critics say that redacted information about Treasury Department dealings with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may prove embarrassing to the Obama White House. (associated press)

Judge rejects Obama administration secrecy on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

This Aug. 21, 2014, photo shows health care tax forms 8962 and1095-A, in Washington. Who thinks about taxes around Labor Day? If you value your tax refund and you’re one of millions getting a health insurance tax credit under President Barack Obama’s health care law, it’s not too early. If you worked a lot of overtime, or maybe your spouse got a higher-paying job, arcane connections between the health law and taxes can reduce or even eliminate your refund. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Tax refunds may get hit due to health law credits

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Contraceptive pills are shown in this undated file photo. On Feb. 7, 2017, the Parsemus Foundation announced it had conducted a successful animal trial of an injectable male contraceptive gel and that it hoped to begin human trials in the coming year. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)

Obama admin. forges new ways for objecting employers to cope with contraception mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This Aug. 20, 2014 file photo shows Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey speaking at Madison Square Garden in New York. During a Pentagon briefing Thursday, Dempsey said it's possible to contain the Islamic State militants, but it can't be done permanently without going after the group in Syria. Speaking to reporters with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Dempsey said he wasn't predicting U.S. airstrikes in Syria, but said the problem must be addressed diplomatically, politically and militarily by America and its regional partners. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Obama faces tough options in Iraq and Syria

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken June 14, 2014, Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, left, campaigns for re-election with his father, former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., center, in Warren, Ark. Mark Pryor is reaching into his own medical history to explain his vote on the nation’s new health care law, telling Arkansans that his battle with a rare cancer 18 years ago influenced his vote. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Democrats reframe debate on health care

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Issa subpoenas White House Chief of Staff for documents linked to political office

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama as he speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington, Aug. 18, 2014. (Associated Press)

KUDLOW: The Obama bank shakedown

By Lawrence Kudlow

Barbara Gonzalez, public information officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shows donated stuffed animals in an area where immigrant families are housed at the Artesia Residential Detention Facility inside the Federal Law Enforcement Center in Artesia, New Mexico. (AP Photo/Pool, El Paso Times, Rudy Gutierrez)

Immigrant rights groups accuse Obama of ‘deportation mill,’ sue to stop removals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Jani Bergdahl, mother of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, listens as President Barack Obama speaks about the release of her son, during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Saturday, May 31, 2014. Bergdahl, 28, had been held prisoner by the Taliban since June 30, 2009. He was handed over to U.S. special forces by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees held by the United States. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Bergdahl release violated law, used improper monies

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

'Get Ready': Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gives an ominous warning about a brutal, rapidly advancing militant group. (Associated Press)

Chuck Hagel delivers ominous warning on Islamic State terrorist threat to U.S.

By Ben Wolfgang and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

**FILE** Illegal immigrants file into a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

DHS saw no option but to free 169 illegals convicted of murder

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times