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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama holds up Golden State Warrior basketball jersey given to him by team members during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington where he honored the 2015 NBA Champions. The Warriors had a meeting with former President Obama on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, at Obama's office in Washington before the defending NBA champs defeated the Washington Wizards. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Golden State Warriors visit former President Barack Obama

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Golden State Warriors players, Draymond Green, left, and Stephen Curry, right, reacts to watching President Barack Obama, center, mimicking Curry's 'clowning' on the basketball court, during a ceremony honoring the 2015 NBA Champions during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Warriors meet with Barack Obama, not Donald Trump in visit to D.C.

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 19, 2016 file photo, handguns are displayed at the Smith &amp; Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) **FILE**

Political shifts, sales slump cast shadow over gun industry

By LISA MARIE PANE - Associated Press

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks to members of the media at her alma mater, Howard University, Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 in Washington, following her announcement earlier in the morning that she will run for president. Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump's nominees, entered the Democratic presidential race on Monday. Vowing to "bring our voices together," Harris would be the first woman to hold the presidency and the second African-American if she succeeds. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kamala Harris joins 2020 women as male Democrats hedge

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Former San Antonio Mayor and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro speaks during an event where he announced his decision to seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Former San Antonio mayor Julian Castro kicks off 2020 presidential bid with blast at border wall

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press in the newly inaugurated Cathedral of the Nativity Christ, in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, east of Cairo, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Eliot Engel, House Foreign Affairs chairman, blasts Mike Pompeo over Mideast speech

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second left, meets Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, second right, and their delegations, at the ministry of foreign affairs in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Pompeo is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders as he continues a nine-nation Middle East tour aimed at reassuring America's Arab partners that the Trump administration is not walking away from the region. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Mike Pompeo slams Obama-era Mideast ‘retreat,’ calls on allies to help isolate Iran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Migrants mainly from Mexico and Central America look on as U.S. President Donald Trump gives a prime-time address about border security Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019, watching from a border migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

The Latest: Trump moves closer to emergency declaration

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In this Jan. 2, 2019, photo, acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, left, and acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims innocence in probe; wall myths

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton walk off stage after both spoke at a rally at Independence Mall in Philadelphia. Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Donald Trump quotes Obama, Hillary Clinton supporting border security: ‘Walls work’

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Obama launches Asia-Pacific leadership program in Hawaii

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019, photo, men work on a new housing project in the West Bank settlement of Naale. Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that the Israeli government -- with little resistance from a friendly White House -- has gone on a settlement push in the West Bank since President Donald Trump took office. That has laid the groundwork for what could be the largest binge in construction in years. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli settlement activity appears to surge in Trump era

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at a hangar rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, in this Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, file photo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Trump in a position to fix the Middle East

By L. Todd Wood

Real estate circles buzzed Wednesday, May 25, 2016, over reports that President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have decided to lease this nine-bedroom mansion in one of Washingtons poshest neighborhoods when he leaves office in January 2017. With a sprawling terrace and a castle-like exterior, the home sits on a quarter-acre lot just down the road from the Naval Observatory, the vice presidents official residence, in the wealthy Kalorama neighborhood near Embassy Row. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Washington Post Fact Checker: No ‘wall’ around Obamas’ home, just ‘security fencing’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama accepts the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award at a ceremony, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) ** FILE **

Barack Obama picks wife’s book, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ movie as favorites of 2018

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration on Friday targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation. The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, led to what electric utilities say was an $18 billion clean-up of mercury and other toxins from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

EPA targets Obama crackdown on mercury from coal plants

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic candidates Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Bill Daley’s Obama Expressway suggestion angers Ryan family

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Ryan Expressway to Obama Expressway? Ryan family says no

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In this Dec. 12, 2018 photo, Hutchison High School junior and Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board student representative Alden Jerome poses outside his school in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Eric Engman/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via AP)

Teen Fairbanks education board member eyes political future

By AMANDA BOHMAN - Associated Press

CORRECTS SPELLING OF LIN-MANUEL - FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2018 file photo, former President Barack Obama accepts the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award at a ceremony in New York. Obama appears on a reworked song by Lin-Manuel Miranda originally from the Broadway hit “Hamilton.” Released Friday, “One Last Time (44 Remix)” features Obama reciting a passage from George Washington’s farewell address. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)

Barack Obama appears on Miranda’s latest ‘Hamilton’ song

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