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Clean coal must be part of our energy future

By Rep. David B. McKinley and P.E.

Political commentator Van Jones appears at Associated Press headquarters, Friday, April 28, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

Van Jones is right — Obama’s optics are off once again

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in this March 23, 2017, file photo. In a pair of special House elections, Republicans are raising the specter of a second turn as House speaker for Pelosi to excite or scare GOP voters and sway independents enough to counter surging opposition to President Donald Trump. The strategy could be a defining theme of the 2018 elections. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

With Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton gone, GOP revives Nancy Pelosi as boogeyman

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

President Trump and former President Barack Obama last spoke on Inauguration Day. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Barack Obama have not spoken since Inauguration Day

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March, 14, 2017, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks with reporters as Democrats criticize the Republican health care plan, at the Capitol in Washington. Warren said during an interview on SiriusXM's &quot;Alter Family Values&quot; April 27, 2017, that she was “troubled” by reports that former President Barack Obama will give a speech to a September health care conference that will be paid for by Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Warren, Sanders unhappy by Wall Street-paid Obama speech

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The stage is set and tested for the keynote by President Donald Trump at the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum in the Georgia World Congress Center on Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Atlanta. As the NRA holds its annual convention, opposition groups are sending a clear message that gun rights supporters will not go unchallenged in the age of Trump. On Friday, he'll become the first president to appear at an NRA convention since Ronald Reagan in 1983. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

The Latest: Trump assures NRA he’ll support gun rights

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File-In this Oct. 3, 2016, file photo, Kyle Palmer, left, of Idaho waits as his son Lance Palmer of San Francisco, takes a photograph of the scene looking south from Beetle Rock at Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park, Calif. President Donald Trump will sign executive orders this week aimed at expanding offshore oil drilling and reviewing national monument designations made by his predecessors, continuing the Republican's assault on Democratic President Barack Obama's environmental legacy. (Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee vi AP, File)

Experts: Long road ahead for Trump offshore drilling order

By JASON DEAREN and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Documents released by lawmakers show Flynn, now former national security adviser, was warned when he retired from the military in 2014 not to take foreign money without &quot;advance approval&quot; by Pentagon authorities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Pentagon joins intensifying probe of former Trump aide Flynn

By CHAD DAY and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., addresses business leaders during a New England Council luncheon in Boston, March 27, 2017. Warren is revving up her already formidable fundraising juggernaut, raking in more than $5.2 million in the first quarter of the year to bring her campaign account to more than $9.2 million according to fundraising totals released Wednesday, April 12, by her campaign. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE **

Elizabeth Warren turns on Obama: Senator ‘troubled’ by $400K Wall Street speech

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Veterans listen as President Donald Trump speaks before signing an Executive Order on "Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection" at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EDITORIAL: Trump’s bow to the people

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Obama White House photographer Pete Souza has book deal

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City Attorney Dennis Herrera, at podium, with his staff beside him, talks about a federal judge's order blocking any attempt by the Trump administration to withhold money from &quot;sanctuary cities&quot; during a news conference at City Hall Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in San Francisco. A federal judge on Tuesday said the president has no authority to attach new conditions to federal spending. U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the preliminary injunction in two lawsuits, one brought by the city of San Francisco, the other by Santa Clara County, against an executive order targeting communities that protect immigrants from deportation. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

William Orrick, judge who blocked Donald Trump on sanctuary cities, a big Obama donor

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, talks with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. as they arrive for a GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: GOP offers stopgap bill to fund government

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This combination of 2016 and 2017 photos shows, top row from left, Alan Halsey, Rebecca Esparza, Laverne Jones Gore and Marjan Vayghan; middle row from left, James McDonald, Brooke Streech, Suliman Bandas and Rick Yearick; bottom row from left, Kate Young, Carolee Upshur, Amellia Sones and Ed Harry. One hundred days into Donald Trump’s presidency, The Associated Press asked people from across the country to write a letter to the president. (AP Photo)

Americans offer hope, prayer in assessing Trump’s 100 days

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump signs an Antiquities Executive Order during a ceremony at the Interior Department in Washington, Wednesday, April, 26, 2017. President Donald Trump is asking for a review of the designation of tens of millions of acres of land as &quot;national monuments.&quot; (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Correction: AP Explains-Trump-National Monuments story

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Charges dropped against Connecticut man in Obama threat case

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Former President Barack Obama hosts a conversation on civic engagement and community organizing, Monday, April 24, 2017, at the University of Chicago in Chicago. It's the former president's first public event of his post-presidential life in the place where he started his political career. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Obama talks smoking weed with college students

By Joseph Curl

In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, listens to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they make statements about North Korea at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) ** FILE **

North Korea must be dealt with

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In a Aug. 26, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during the American Legion national convention in Charlotte, N.C. Former President Barack Obama met Sunday, April 23, 2017, with at-risk young men and boys in his hometown of Chicago before his first major post-presidency speech. Obama will speak Monday in Chicago to young community leaders and organizers at the University of Chicago, where his presidential library is planned. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Obama dishes on leadership at 1st event since leaving office

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama waves as he boards a Marine helicopter during a departure ceremony on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington after President Donald Trump was inaugurated. Obama is scheduled to hold the first public event of his post-presidential life Monday, April 24, 2017, in the place where he started his political career. He will speak at the University of Chicago, where his presidential library is planned. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

The Latest: Obama discusses civic engagement, not politics

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