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Ukraine's fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych speaks at a news conference in Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from Moscow, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Yanukovych, making his first public appearance since fleeing Ukraine, said he was forced to leave the country after his family received threats. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

White House warns Russia again on Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Rep. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, holds up a letter he wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking that she consider waiving Obamacare for the 4th Congressional District of Colorado, as she testified on Capitol Hill in Washington Oct. 30, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Tea party ready for fight with GOP establishment

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

5 Things to Know in Florida for March 1

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FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2013 file photo, former President Bill Clinton speaks in Charlottesville, Va. The National Archives plans to release about 4,000 pages of previously confidential documents involving former President Bill Clinton's administration. Some of the topics include the president's health care task force and the 9/11 Commission Report. The papers could shed light on Clinton's presidency and provide insight into a future presidential candidate: former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

‘90s documents show Clintons’ health care concerns

By KEN THOMAS and PHILIP ELLIOTT - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this June 18, 2013, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Officials: Al-Qaida plots comeback in Afghanistan

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2014 file photo, Teresa Fryer, Medicare's top cybersecurity official, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. As the Obama administration raced to meet its self-imposed deadline for online health insurance markets, security experts working for the government worried that state computer systems could become a back door for hackers. In one email from Sept. 29, a Sunday two days before the launch, Fryer, chief information security officer for the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, wrote of the state security approvals, “The front office is signing them whether or not they are a high risk.” Her agency, known as CMS, is in charge of administering the health care law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Troubled state-run websites get health law fix

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the conclusion of their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. If President Barack Obama decided to leave no military advisory force in Afghanistan next year, would Afghan security unravel to the point of enabling a civil war, a Taliban takeover and a return of al-Qaida in such numbers as to pose a 9/11-type threat. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

The debate over post-war Afghanistan

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks at the first White House Student Film Festival, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. Student filmmakers pictured, Miles Pilchik, left, and Gabrielle Nafie, second right, second graders, SciTech in New York, Kids; Kyle Weintraub, second left, seventh grade, from David Posnack Jewish Day School in Davie, Fla.; and Shelly Ortiz, high school senior at Metropolitan Arts Institute, from Phoenix, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama hosts 1st White House student film festival

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Unidentified gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms guard the entrance to the military airport at the Black Sea port of Sevastopol in Crimea, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Russian troops took control of the two main airports in the strategic peninsula of Crimea, Ukraine's interior minister charged Friday, as the country asked the U.N. Security Council to intervene in the escalating conflict. Russian state media said Russian forces in Crimea denied involvement. No violence was reported at the civilian airport in Crimea's capital of Simferopol or at the military airport in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, also part of Crimea. At the Simferopol airport, a man claiming to speak for the camouflage-clad forces patrolling the airport described them as Crimean militiamen. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Obama warns Russia over military moves in Crimea

By DALTON BENNETT and KARL RITTER - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama plans Texas fundraiser in April

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Connecticut center Stefanie Dolson (31) celebrates with a teammate in front of SMU forward Akil Simpson (5) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Dallas. Connecticut won 81-48. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

UConn senior Dolson hopes for Obama dance-off

By PAT EATON-ROBB - Associated Press

Obama seeks more federal spending to train doctors

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**FILE** Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, an association representing member companies that provide medical insurance coverage, discusses the political fight over health care reform urged by President Obama as she fends off criticism aimed at the big insurers she represents, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, during an interview with The Associated Press in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Insurers’ lobby hits back at Medicare Advantage cuts, cites report that seniors will pay more

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

An protester jumps from an army armored vehicle maneuvering in the street outside Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, with Ukrainian flag at right, as protests continue against fugitive Ukrainian President Yanukovych. Ukraine put its police on high alert after dozens of armed pro-Russia men stormed and seized local government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea region early Thursday and raised a Russian flag over a barricade. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

White House to Putin: ‘Avoid provocative actions’ in Ukraine

By Ben Wolfgang and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, said "this isn't right and has to be stopped" as America's Health Insurance Plans reported that Obamacare cuts would trim payment rates to Medicare Advantage plans by nearly 6 percent in 2015. (Associated Press photographs)

Health insurers detail raised premiums from Obamacare cuts to Medicare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Health law fix for state-run websites

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer speaks at a news conference announcing she has vetoed SB1062, a bill designed to give added protection from lawsuits to people who assert their religious beliefs in refusing service to gays, at the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

A look at key moments in Arizona governor’s career

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Durbin, Bustos urge funding for Thomson prison

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Documents from Clinton White House to be released

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press