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Former U.S. President Barack Obama gesture as he attends the &quot;values-based leadership&quot; during a plenary session of the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Dec. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) ** FILE **

Obama scraps big birthday bash and scales back party after backlash, virus concerns: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden holds a card handed to him by an aide that reads "Sir, there is something on your chin" to take notes as he meets with governors to discuss ongoing efforts to strengthen wildfire prevention, preparedness and response efforts, and hear firsthand about the ongoing impacts of the 2021 wildfire season in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Elder abuse at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

This image provided by Crown shows the cover of &quot;Renegades: Born in the USA&quot; by former President Barack Obama and musician Bruce Springsteen. (Courtesy of Crown via AP)

Obama-Springsteen book ‘Renegades’ coming in October

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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks to the media, Friday, June 25, 2021, after he and Vice President Kamala Harris toured of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Central Processing Center in El Paso, Texas. Harris visited the U.S. southern border as part of her role leading the Biden administration's response to a steep increase in migration. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Anti-DACA court ruling sets Democrats scrambling to protect ‘Dreamers’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Judge orders end to DACA, current enrollees safe for now

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This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Obama slams Trump’s election ‘hooey,’ warns of GOP’s ‘further delegitimizing of our democracy’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 17, 2021, in Washington. The Supreme Court has dismissed a third major challenge to "Obamacare," preserving health insurance coverage for millions of Americans. Though the court has become increasingly conservative with justices nominated by former President Donald Trump, it nonetheless left the entire law intact Thursday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden administration faces record pace of lawsuits

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo from April 1, 2015, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, right, speaks with then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and U.S. Robert Malley, left, Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf States, National Security Council during a break outside the hotel at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel as the Iran nuclear talks continue, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Malley currently serves as the Biden administration's special envoy to Iran and is working to salvage the Obama-era Iran deal that President Trump canceled. (AP Photo/Keystone,Laurent Gillieron) ** FILE **

Iran’s misdeeds, terror efforts dismissed in Biden push for new nuclear deal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after the Democrats' policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How hypocrisy thrives when an opposing political party abuses power

By David Keene - The Washington Times

Hunter Biden (Associated Press/File)

Reports: Hunter Biden used N-word with lawyer, had racist Obama meme on laptop

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Obama warns of ‘the dangers of cancel culture,’ ‘condemning people all the time’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama speaks as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at Florida International University, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

Obama on Trump-inspired GOP: ‘We have got a problem’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this image from video, former President Barack Obama speaks during the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP) Photo edited for Best of 2020 list.

Barack Obama: Blacks, Hispanics wary of government ‘for good reason’ during vaccine campaign

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger pauses as she speaks to media at the CFPB offices in Washington. In April 2021, the bureau broadened the scope for what it considers to be abusive behavior by providers of financial services or products to consumers. Under Kraninger, the bureau adopted a narrower definition that, among other things, made monetary penalties less likely. The change will likely result in more enforcement actions and larger fines against the financial services industry, experts said. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Consumer watchdog agency rediscovers its teeth under Biden

By KEN SWEET - Associated Press

In this Dec. 20, 2009, file photo President Obama's family dog, Bo, stands near the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Bo died Saturday, May 8, 2021, after a battle with cancer, the Obamas said on social media. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Obama dog Bo, once a White House celebrity, dies from cancer

By Alexandra Jaffe - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020 file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden in Atlanta. A long-time patron of independent bookstores Obama celebrated Independent Bookstore Day by virtually “stopping in” to visit with six independent bookstores from around the country: Square Books of Oxford; Eso Won Books of Los Angeles, Calif.; Politics &amp; Prose Bookstore of Washington, D.C.; Parnassus Books of Nashville, Tenn.; The Lit.Bar of Bronx, N.Y.; and Literati of Ann Arbor, Mich. Booksellers from each store spoke with the President about their mutual love of reading, the craft of writing, and all things books. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Obama makes virtual visit for Independent Bookstore Day

By ANNA GUIZERIX and The Oxford Eagle - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 8, 2021, file photo, National Guard soldiers stand their posts around the Capitol at sunrise in Washington. Partisan tensions have only gotten worse on Capitol Hill since Pelosi’s defiant act last year, days before the Senate acquitted Trump in his first impeachment trial. Since then, the Capitol has been through the Jan. 6 insurrection, another House impeachment and another Senate acquittal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Cooling the temperature: Biden faces fractious Congress

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

Kiran Ahuja, the nominee to be Office of Personnel Management Director, appears before a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hybrid nominations hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Kiran Ahuja, racial justice activist, set to run OPM with likely Senate confirmation

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Sunlight peeks through clouds over a section of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Efrat, March 12, 2021. Israel went on an aggressive settlement spree during the Trump era, according to an AP investigation, pushing deeper into the occupied West Bank than ever before and putting the Biden administration into a bind as it seeks to revive Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Trump-era spike in Israeli settlement growth has only begun

By JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Illustration on Biden's foreign policy bad deals by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s bad foreign policy deals

By Clifford D. May