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In this Feb. 9, 2009, file photo, then-President Barack Obama laughs during his first prime-time televised news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

‘Thanks, Obama!’ Former president credits himself for strong economy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The top retweets for 2017

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec. 2, 2017, photo former President Obama gives a speech in Paris. Obama is expected to attend a gathering of mayors from around the globe convening in Chicago to discuss climate change after President Donald Trump said the U.S. will pull out of the Paris climate accord. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel released a statement Monday, Dec. 4, saying he's honored Obama will be joining the North American Climate Summit Chicago. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

The Latest: Obama: Cities, states new climate change leaders

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UPDATES SECOND SENTENCE WITH MORE PRECISE PERCENTAGES - FILE - In this June 27, 2017 file photo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry speak during the daily briefing at the White House. Trump nominees to top science, health jobs often are missing something: advanced science degrees. An Associated Press analysis of nominees to top science jobs found that almost 60 percent don’t have advanced degrees in science, but more than 60 percent of their Obama predecessors did. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump science job nominees missing advanced science degrees

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after speaking to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, before heading to Utah. Trump will be announcing plans to scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, responding to what he has condemned as a "massive federal land grab" by the government. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump shrinks national monuments — and with it, Barack Obama’s legacy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with a journalist as he waits for an elevator after leaving a closed House Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act splits Democrats, Republicans

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves federal court in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide-ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Michael Flynn’s rise was rapid, his fall even faster

By CHAD DAY and ERIC TUCKER and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to the media after attending a closed meeting with testimony by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

House panel approves bill to crack down on Obama-era ‘unmasking’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Trump, Obama, national parks, Antiquities Act

By Bruce Fein

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, center, arrives at federal court in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump whose business dealings and foreign interactions made him a central focus of Mueller's investigation, will admit to lying about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the transition period before Trump's inauguration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Key players in the Michael Flynn investigation

By STEPHEN BRAUN and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Mick Mulvaney speaks during a news conference after his first day as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Mick Mulvaney, lawmakers take on ‘politically motivated’ appointee at CFPB

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The education of more than 10,000 veterans and active-duty military students could be disrupted if the Department of Veterans Affairs suspends Ashford University's eligibility for GI Bill tuition payments and approval of student enrollments and re-enrollments by early January. (Associated Press/File)

Ashford University veteran-students caught in bureaucracy battle

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, file photo, an anti-North Korea protester holds up a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a rally welcoming the visit by U.S. President Donald Trump near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.North Korea is on its way back onto a very short list of countries the United States says sponsor terrorism. The designation will expand the already substantial array of sanctions the U.S. has imposed on trade with North Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

A look at the 4 countries the US says sponsor terrorism

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean nation. The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the benefit will be extended one last time — until July 2019 — to give Haitians time to prepare to return home. (Associated Press)

Temporary Protected Status for Haitians canceled

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Alaska Editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this April 6, 2017, file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the Women in the World Summit at Lincoln Center in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Sessions open to idea of Clinton Foundation special counsel

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Illustration on Republicans and the enduring fiscal cliff by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

If Budget Control Act is scrapped, fiscal conservatism is over

By Stephen Moore and Andrew Wofford

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, leaves the Fort Bragg courtroom facility as the judge deliberates in a sentencing hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Bergdahl liberals blur line between honor and dishonor

By Robert Knight

President Barack Obama, with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, center, and Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez, speaks during a meeting with members of his economic team in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 4, 2016. Obama spoke about U.S. employers adding 242,000 workers in February, driving another solid month for the resilient American job market. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama Foundation’s newest director a Paradise Papers billionaire

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama arrives for jury duty in the Daley Center on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, in Chicago. Obama is in line to be paid the same $17.20 a day that others receive for reporting for jury duty. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune via AP)

Barack Obama shows up in Chicago for jury duty; not chosen

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press