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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, speaks at a North Little Rock, Ark., news conference as he endorses U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in the race for U.S. Senate, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Romney casts Arkansas race as way to fight Obama

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

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PRUDEN: Dealing with the mad dogs in Iraq

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this April 12, 2013, file photo, a U.S. Marine F/A-18 Hornet jet flies low pass during Philippines-U.S. joint military exercise in northern Philippines. President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, warning they would be launched if needed to defend Americans from advancing Islamic militants and protect civilians under siege. Obama said American military planes already had carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Iraqi religious minorities surrounded by militants and desperately in need of food and water. The Pentagon said the airdrops were performed by one C-17 and two C-130 cargo aircraft that together delivered a total of 72 bundles of food and water. They were escorted by two F/A-18 fighters. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

State Department asks for more troops in Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 14, 2014 file photo shows Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to tap into programs designed to prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires. Vilsack said Tuesday that about $400 million to $500 million in projects will have to be put on hold in what has become a routine exercise toward the end of the fiscal year. He predicted that the money set aside strictly for firefighting will have run dry by the end of August. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Report: Firefighting costs eroding conservation

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

The Islamic State, which controls large portions of Iraq and Syria, "seems to be absolutely certain they will be trying to kill as many Americans as possible in the United States as well as elsewhere," said Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch. (Raqqa Media Center Via Associated Press)

Islamic State targets Americans at home and abroad

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

THIS CORRECTs THE TYPE OF WARPLANE IS AN EA-6B -- An EA-6B coming from Iraq lands on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 in the Persian Gulf. Aircrafts aboard the George H.W. Bush are flying missions over Iraq after U.S. President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes against Islamic militants and food drops for Iraqis trapped by the fighters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

US official: More airstrikes in Iraq

Associated Press

President Barack Obama applauds Ann Compton of ABC News, who is retiring after more than 40 years, before he takes a question from her in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, President Barack Obama met with top advisers at the White House Monday to review developments in Iraq and in racially charged Ferguson, Mo., two trouble spots where Obama has ordered his administration to intervene. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama weighs broader move on legal immigration

By Laura Wides-Munoz and Josh Lederman - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Impeachment is constitutionally right

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Barack Obama speaks in Edgartown, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, about the killing of American journalist James Foley by militants with the Islamic State extremist group. The president said the US will continue to confront Islamic State extremists despite the brutal murder of journalist James Foley. Obama said the entire world is &quot;appalled&quot; by Foley's killing. The president says he spoke Wednesday with Foley's family and offered condolences. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

CURL: Obama wants Ferguson to explode

By Joseph Curl

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike hit Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. The Israeli military said it carried out a series of airstrikes Tuesday across the Gaza Strip in response to renewed rocket fire, a burst of violence that broke a temporary cease-fire and endangered negotiations in Egypt over ending the month long war between Israel and Hamas. The fighting occurred some eight hours before a temporary truce was set to expire. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian rockets, Israeli airstrikes resume after negotiators walk out

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** David Plouffe, who led President Barack Obama's winning campaign, stands in the 2008 presidential race, in Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters, May 10, 2007. (Associated Press)

Former Obama adviser David Plouffe hired by Uber

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Vice President Joe Biden ceremonially swears in Julian Castro, left, as the new Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Castro's wife Erica Castro, holds the bible as his daughter, Carina Castro, center bottom, listens. Castro was officially sworn in on July 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden welcomes Castro amid 2016 VP chatter

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2014, file photo, first lady Michelle Obama, left, bikes rides with President Barack Obama and daughter Malia Obama on the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest bike path outside of West Tisbury, Mass., during the Obama family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Obama arrived on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard with one daughter, and the other daughter may be at his side when his two-week getaway ends later this month. In a first for Obama family summer vacations, neither teenager is spending the entire time with her father. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama on family vacation with just part of family

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Smoke rises from airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq. (Associated Press)

U.S. expands campaign against Islamic State

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and daughter Malia Obama exit the Marine One helicopter to board Air Force One at Cape Cod Coast Guard Air Station in Bourne, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014,, en route to Washington. The president is taking a short hiatus from his family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard to attend meetings in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama in Washington for meetings on Iraq, Missouri

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

**FILE** President Barack Obama points to a member of the media as he speaks about the the budget and the partial government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Lawsuit accuses Obama White House of thwarting release of public data under FOIA

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

YOUNG: Obama’s teetering presidency

By J.T. Young

President Obama has authorized reconnaissance flights over Syria, a U.S. official told CNN Monday. (Associated Press)

Obama faces growing pressure for more U.S. military force against Islamic State

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, left, listens to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge manager Kimberly Hayes, right, while in a look-out tower during a tour of the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge in Townsend, Ga., Thursday, June 26, 2014. Jewell announced Thursday that the federal government is upgrading the wood stork to a &quot;threatened&quot; species, a step up from endangered that indicates the birds are no longer considered at risk of extinction. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

EDITORIAL: Foiled by Fish & Wildlife

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES