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President Barack Obama, center, and two secret service agents are silhouetted as he walks toward Marine One helicopter upon arrival at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014. Obama will attend the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, POOL)

Russia dominates, but Obama trip broadens outreach

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

"I don't think you'll find a bigger champion than Secretary of State Scott Gessler here in Colorado of maintaining clean and accurate voter rolls," his spokesman said. (Associated Press)

States, D.C. are told to clean up voter rolls or be sued; Judicial Watch counters Obama

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, center rear, gathered with G7 world leaders clockwise from center left, European Council president Herman Van Rompuy, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)

Western nations, Japan move to isolate Russia as G-8 becomes G-7

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

Jessica Wilt checks her work tablet as she sits in shared office and meeting space, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in New York. Wilt, 37, a former professional tap dancer who has freelance jobs managing a children’s dance program and arts grant programs, thought premiums would be too costly, but went back and found she had erred in projecting her 2014 earnings, and qualified for a much bigger subsidy. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Millions on the sidelines for big health care push

By CONNIE CASS - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

KEENE: Obama needs foreign policy from Jimmy Carter

By David Keene - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 11, 2014 file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking to reporters as she leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate intelligence committee vote next week to release key sections of a voluminous, still-secret report on terror interrogations would start a declassification process that could severely test the already strained relationship between lawmakers and the CIA, and force President Barack Obama to step into the fray. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Terror report release may fuel Congress’ CIA spat

By BRADLEY KLAPPER and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, customers enter and exit a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama’s health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice. Two years after the entire law survived the justices’ review by a single vote, the court is hearing arguments on Tuesday in a religion-based challenge from family-owned companies that object to covering certain contraceptives in their health plans as part of the law’s preventive care requirement. The largest company among them, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Health law birth control coverage before justices

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Oregon exports flat, Washington soars on Boeing

By RICHARD READ - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, customers enter and exit a Hobby Lobby store in Denver. The Obama administration and its opponents are renewing the Supreme Court battle over President Barack Obama’s health care law in a case that pits the religious rights of employers against the rights of women to the birth control of their choice. Two years after the entire law survived the justices’ review by a single vote, the court is hearing arguments on Tuesday in a religion-based challenge from family-owned companies that object to covering certain contraceptives in their health plans as part of the law’s preventive care requirement. The largest company among them, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)

Health law birth control coverage before justices

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney arrives to his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Boston. President Obama defeated Romney. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Romney: ‘Our esteem … has fallen’ under Obama

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Retaliatory "sanctions" from Russians across the country have sprung up on social media sites like Twitter. A sign reads that President Obama is no longer allowed to enter this shop. (Sergey Lebedev via twitter)

U.S. sanctions unite Russians with flippant bans of Obama

By Marc Bennetts — Special to the Washington Times

Hobby Lobby, an Oklahoma-based crafts supplies company, found favor before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver last summer, but the government trumped Conestoga Wood Specialties — owned by Mennonites in Pennsylvania — before the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia. The Supreme Court consolidated two cases for Tuesday's arguments, with each side chalking up a win at the circuit court level. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court to weigh religious rights of corporations vs. Obamacare’s ‘contraception mandate’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte gestures during a press conference at the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 22, 2014. Ayotte stressed out during her brief visit to Afghanistan that no American forces would remain in Afghanistan without a bilateral security agreement, but she also said Obama shouldn’t wait for that to give an idea of what the U.S. presence would look like after the NATO-led combat mission ends at the end of this year. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

US senator wants decision on Afghan troop levels

By KIM GAMEL - Associated Press

President Barack Obama is greeted upon his arrival at the Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, March 20, 2014, enroute to the Valencia Community College West campus to speak about the role of women in the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Alex Menendez)

Obama: Women still face outdated policies at work

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Texas city pays to end negotiations with Nugent

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New England editorial roundup

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FILE - In this March 17. 2014 photo, President Barack Obama speaks about Ukraine in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Obama travels across the Atlantic next week and will seek a cohesive stance from European leaders unnerved by Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s Europe ties get new test in Russia dispute

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Udall says family has benefited from health law

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

In this Feb. 19, 2014, photo, Connecticut's Breanna Stewart smiles during an NCAA college basketball game against Central Florida in Hartford, Conn. Stewart says she's not cocky heading into the NCAA tournament, where she earned MVP honors a year ago in leading the Huskies to their eighth national title. But after a more consistent regular season as a sophomore, she is very confident. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Obama predicts UConn in his women’s NCAA bracket

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Hagan turns toward Tillis, would welcome Obama

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press