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In this March 26, 2014, photo provided by Catholic Coalition of Immigrant Rights, Pope Francis touches 10-year-old Jersey Vargas, who traveled to the Vatican from Los Angeles to plead with him to help spare her father from deportation, during a public audience at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. Her father, Mario Vargas, in the United States illegally, had been in federal custody and faced possible deportation. After speaking with Francis, Mario Vargas was released on bond from immigration detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday, March 28, 2014. Jersey Vargas was part of a California delegation that sought to encourage the Vatican to prod President Obama on immigration reform. (AP Photo/Catholic Coalition of Immigrant Rights)

Girl talks to pope on immigration, then dad freed

By AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

Health overhaul enrollees praise new system

By TIM VANDENACK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2013, file photo, Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter (2), wears APU for &quot;All Players United&quot; on wrist tape as he scores a touchdown during an NCAA college football game against Maine in Evanston, Ill. The five-member regulatory board that will ultimately decide if Northwestern University football players can unionize has itself been in the middle of a firestorm. The very makeup of the National Labor Relations Board has been challenged in a case now before the Supreme Court. And Republicans contend the agency has being overly friendly to organized labor. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Will college athletes unionize? A query for NLRB

By TOM RAUM - Associated Press

Sebelius visits Fla. as insurance deadline looms

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. As a hectic sign-up season winds down, President Barack Obama's health care law has managed to change the country. Americans are unlikely to go back to a time when people with medical problems could be denied coverage. But Obama’s overhaul needs reworking of its own to go down in history as a legacy achievement like Medicare and Social Security.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Health law legacy eludes Obama as changes sink in

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks back to his plane through Shannon Airport in Ireland Saturday March 29, 2014, during a refueling stop. Halfway home from Saudi Arabia, Kerry has abruptly changed course and will stay in Europe for talks on the Ukraine crisis. Flying from Riyadh to Shannon for a refueling stop on Saturday, Kerry decided to turn his plane around and was traveling to Paris for a meeting with Lavrov scheduled for Sunday evening.. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Kerry set to see Russian FM on Ukraine

Associated Press

**FILE** Statistician Nate Silver sits on the stairs at Allegro hotel in downtown Chicago on Nov. 9, 2012. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Nate Silver, bearer of bad Democratic tidings

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Officials remember Vietnam POW, ex-Sen. Denton

Associated Press

FILE - House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this June 6, 2013 file photo. Rogers said he won't seek re-election during an interview on Detroit radio station WJR-AM Friday March 28, 2014. He says he'll serve out the end of his term and plans to start a national radio program. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Rogers, GOP hawk, quitting Congress for radio show

By BRADLEY KLAPPER and DAVID RUNK - Associated Press

Peter Morici

LAMBRO: Fuzzy numbers obscure a stagnant Obama economy

By Donald Lambro

President Barack Obama waves as he gets off Air Force One upon his arrival at King Khalid International airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, March 28, 2014. President Barack Obama is in Saudi Arabia to reassure the key Gulf ally that his commitment to the Arab world isn't wavering. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to Putin: Pull back from Ukraine border

By JOSH LEDERMAN and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

** FILE ** Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden speaks during a presentation ceremony for the Sam Adams Award in Moscow in this image made from video and released by WikiLeaks on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo)

White House cyber chief: Snowden damage will be felt for decades

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

Obama meets with Saudi king, weighs new Syria aid

By Jim Kuhnhenn and Julie Pace - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2013, photo, Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, talks with area farmers as he tours the East Central Iowa Co-Op in Cedar Falls, Iowa. You might think this year's candidates had learned from Barack Obama's comments about bitter people who &quot;cling to guns or religion.&quot; Or perhaps from Mitt Romney's apparent dismissal of the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes. Braley apologized after describing six-term GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley as &quot;a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law.&quot; (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Unguarded comments, caught on tape, dog candidates

By CHARLES BABINGTON - Associated Press

FILE - This March 1, 2014 file photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov, photographed in Washington. President Barack Obama says more than 6 million Americans have signed up for coverage through the new health insurance markets created by his overhaul. That’s a milestone, fulfilling a goal set by Congressional Budget Office and embraced by the White House. The president made the announcement during an international conference call with enrollment counselors and volunteers, while traveling in Italy. Monday is the deadline to enroll in the new insurance exchanges, although many people will still be able to take advantage of extensions announced this week.(AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Obama says more than 6M signed up for health care

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Senators urge end of deal to buy Russian choppers

By RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama tells Pope Francis he is a “great admirer”

By JIM KUHNHENN and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2013, file photo, candidate for Charlotte mayor Patrick Cannon speaks to students at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. Cannon, now mayor of Charlotte, was arrested Wednesday, March 26, 2014, on public corruption charges. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins says that Cannon solicited and accepted bribes from undercover FBI agents posing as real estate developers who wanted to do business in Charlotte. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Charlotte mayor faces corruption charges, resigns

By MITCH WEISS and TOM FOREMAN JR. - Associated Press

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing probing whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the government&#8217;s tax agency. Earlier this month, IRS official Lois Lerner was called to testify about the controversy but refused to answer questions by committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights at least nine times. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

ISTOOK: Congress must bully the IRS by cutting off its money until it cooperates

By Ernest Istook