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FILE - This illustration released on May 3, 2017 by the Obama Foundation shows plans for the proposed Obama Presidential Center with a museum, rear, in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side. This view looks from the south with a public plaza that extends into the landscape. Odds still favor the eventual construction of Barack Obama's $500 million presidential museum and library in a park along Chicago's lakeshore. A judge hears arguments Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, on a city motion to toss a parks-advocacy group’s lawsuit that argues the project violates laws barring development in lakeside parks. (Obama Foundation via AP, File)

Judge OKs suit aimed at halting Obama library in Chicago

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Former President Barack Obama, left, hugs Golden State Warriors basketball player Stephen Curry after speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Obama joined by Curry to tell minority boys ‘you matter’

By JEFF CHIU and JANIE HAR - Associated Press

Then-President Barack Obama speaks about his Clean Power Plan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Obama Presidential Center lawsuit approved by judge

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

Then-President Barack Obama speaks about his Clean Power Plan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Barack Obama to be involved with NBA-backed Africa League

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Susan Walsh)

Trump claims Japan’s PM nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump’s ‘egregious’ border ‘overreach’ hardly ‘egregious’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama speaks as he campaigns in support of Ohio gubernatorial candidate Richard Cordray, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Dermer)

Obama Presidential Center plans threatened by Chicago lawsuit

By Michael Tarm - Associated Press

FILE - This illustration released on May 3, 2017 by the Obama Foundation shows plans for the proposed Obama Presidential Center with a museum, rear, in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side. This view looks from the south with a public plaza that extends into the landscape. Odds still favor the eventual construction of Barack Obama's $500 million presidential museum and library in a park along Chicago's lakeshore. A judge hears arguments Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, on a city motion to toss a parks-advocacy group’s lawsuit that argues the project violates laws barring development in lakeside parks. (Obama Foundation via AP, File)

Lawsuit means Chicago Obama library plan no sure thing

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

U.S. Navy Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Timothy Bussey scans for contacts aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance in the Indian Ocean, on Feb. 4. The John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group is deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy)

Inside the Ring: U.S. destroyers in disputed waters

By Bill Gertz

Illustration on Joe Biden by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The mythologies of ‘Joe being Joe’ Biden

By Victor Davis Hanson

In this Feb. 5, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch. In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump said a &quot;powerful barrier&quot; had cut crime rates and turned El Paso, Texas, from one of the nation's most dangerous cities to one of its safest. But many in El Paso, site of Trump's rally Monday night, say the city was safe for decades and embodies a cross-border spirit that transcends walls rather than prove they work. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims he’s vindicated in Russia probe

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks during a meet and greet with local residents, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Cory Booker invents Swiss language in Iowa interview

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Oklahoma City museum acquires painting by Obama portraitist

Associated Press

In this Feb. 5, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence, left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi look on. In Trump's estimation, the good times began to roll for the country on the night he was elected. So he doesn't hesitate to swipe job growth from the twilight of the Obama administration and claim it as his own. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump swipes progress from Obama era

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 29, 2015 file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., standing with former Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., holds up the gavel Dingell used 50 years ago when Medicare legislation was passed during an event marking the 50th Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who mastered legislative deal-making and was fiercely protective of Detroit's auto industry, has died at age 92. Dingell, who served in the U.S. House for 59 years before retiring in 2014, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, at his home in Dearborn, said his wife, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

John Dingell, longest serving member of Congress, dies at 92

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019 photo, an election campaign billboard shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and US President Donald Trump in Tel Aviv, Israel. Seeking re-election under a cloud of criminal investigations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is apparently channeling his inner Donald Trump in an angry campaign against perceived domestic enemies. Drawing clear inspiration from Trump, Netanyahu's Likud party has plastered huge billboards of the two leaders together and launched a Trump-like weekly webcast to counter what it calls the &quot;fake news&quot; industry. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu channeling Trump in Israel’s election campaign

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

FILE - This June 27, 2017 file photo shows the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. Statues of Confederate generals and other symbols of Richmond's once-booming slave trade stand as painful reminders of the city's turbulent racial past. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Blackface photo is a reminder of Virginia’s racist history

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 22, 2018, file photo shows a pump jack over an oil well along Interstate 25 near Dacono, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech exaggerates border peril

By CALVIN WOODWARD and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, online brokerage TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts speaks during a ceremonial unveiling of his portrait which will hang in company headquarters in Omaha, Neb. The patriarch of the family behind the Chicago Cubs has apologized after an online media outlet published emails in which he took part in racist comments and conspiracy theories. Some of the emails Splinter News published Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, featured Ricketts making Islamophobic comments. Others included conspiracies about former President Barack Obama's birthplace and education. Ricketts apologized for the emails, saying he believes &quot;bigoted ideas are wrong.&quot; (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Cubs family patriarch apologizes for racist emails

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Separating fact vs fiction in Trump’s State of the Union

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press