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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with governors and lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, April 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump orders aides to pursue reopening of Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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Bring on the cyber apocalypse

By Gary Anderson

U.S. President Barack Obama, right, walks with former president George W. Bush during a wreath laying ceremony to honor the victims of the U.S. Embassy bombing on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The president is traveling in Tanzania on the final leg of his three-country tour in Africa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama, George W. Bush deployed National Guard to border before Trump

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

In this April 5, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up during a roundtable discussion on tax policy in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Trump was having it both ways over the past week, portraying a &quot;crisis&quot; at the Mexico border that demands the use of National Guard troops while boasting of a huge drop in illegal border crossings there.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump is having it both ways on border policy

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN - Associated Press

File - In this Jan. 19, 2007 file photo, Staff Sgt. Kevin Black, 36, of Kenmore, N.Y., of the New York National Guard keeps an eye on a group of suspected illegal immigrants near the Arizona-Mexico border in Sasabe, Ariz. National guard contingents in U.S. states that border Mexico say they are waiting for guidance from Washington to determine what they will do following President Donald Trump's proclamation directing deployment to fight illegal immigration and drug smuggling. The National Guard in Texas said in a statement Thursday, April 5, 2018, said the deployment is in &quot;very early planning stages.&quot; (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

What happened when Bush, Obama sent troops to Mexico border

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump salutes as he walks off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 5, 2018, after returning from a trip to West Virginia. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump wants out of Syria, but don’t say ‘timeline’

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump salutes as he walks off of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 5, 2018, after returning from a trip to West Virginia. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump wants out of Syria, but don’t say ‘timeline’

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, aerial file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent looks out along the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border in Rio Grande City, Texas. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday, April 4, 2018, that President Donald Trump and border-state governors are working to “immediately” deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

AP Explains: Why US militarization of border isn’t new

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

In this June 12, 2006, file photo, Army National Guard Spc. Gustavo Gutierrez, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., scans the U.S./Mexico border from the top of Radar Hill, near Columbus, N.M. In his threat Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to use the military on the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised wall is built, President Donald Trump again heaped blame on his predecessor, Barack Obama, and congressional Democrats for creating a dangerous and dysfunctional border. (Norm Dettlaff/Las Cruces Sun-News via AP, file)

Donald Trump signs order deploying National Guard to border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this June 13, 2006, file photo, Utah National Guard soldiers work on extending a border fence in San Luis, Ariz., President Donald Trump said April 3, 2018, he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. The Department of Homeland Security and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. At the Pentagon, officials were struggling to answer questions about the plan, including rudimentary details on whether it would involve National Guard members, as similar programs in the past have done. But officials appeared to be considering a model similar to a 2006 operation in which former President George W. Bush deployed National Guard troops to the southern border in an effort to increase security and surveillance. (AP Photo/Khampha Bouaphanh)

The Latest: Mexico says US troops on border won’t be armed

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Colorado Editorial Roundup

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One during their departure from Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, April 1, 2018. Trump is returning to Washington after spending Easter weekend at his Mar-a-lago estate. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

New York Magazine sideswipes Donald Trump with pig snout portrayal

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt talks with local media following a press conference after taking a tour of the Black Thunder coal mine outside of Wright, Wyo., Thursday, Mar. 29, 2018. (Josh Galemor/The Casper Star-Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

Scott Pruitt, EPA chief, scraps Obama-era fuel efficiency rules

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Correction: Trump-Skilled Immigration story

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, is up for re-election in 2018 and faces an upstart from within her own party. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Opponents attack Claire McCaskill’s Democratic connections

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks at Local 18 Richfield Training Facility, Thursday, March 29, 2018, in Richfield, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Richard)

Trump trolls Obama on judicial vacancies: ‘It was like the gift from heaven’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 12, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson as he boards Marine One to leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., after his first medical check-up as president. On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, and tweeted that Jackson is his nominee to replace Shulkin. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump’s VA pick draws concern over thin management record

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., questions Alex Azar during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, to consider Azar's nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Claire McCaskill under fire for Beverly Hills fundraiser with Barack Obama

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this July 22, 2015, file photo, then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice participates in a briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Susan Rice joins Netflix board of directors

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama greets people as he leaves Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, adjacent to Honolulu, Hawaii, en route to Washington, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, after his annual family vacation on the island of Oahu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Obama statue sought by Hawaii state Senate committee

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