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President Donald Trump, center, first lady Melania Trump, second from right, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus attend a Super Bowl party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

More than a third of Americans think media is too tough on Donald Trump

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo,President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. After years of objecting to President Barack Obama’s use of executive power to work around Congress, President Donald Trump and Republicans allies have all-but abandoned their public complaints about checks-and-balances and embraced the go-it-alone strategy to fast-track their dismantling President Barack Obama's policies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump’s go-it-alone strategy carries its own risks

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump supporter Lance Snead, of Roseville, Calif., left, is confronted by an anti-Trump supporter Louise Isaacson, of Newcastle, Calif., during a rally in front of the Tower Theatre in Roseville on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. Snead said although he was invited to Republican Congressman Tom McClintock's town hall meeting, he was not allowed into the theater. (Randall Benton/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

House GOP lawmakers face tough questions on health care

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Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman listens at left as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AP FACT CHECK: Pelosi lacks facts to back up Trump criticism

By MATTHEW LEE and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this Oct. 24, 2016 file photo, the HealthCare.gov 2017 web site home page as seen in Washington. Republicans are increasingly talking about repairing President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a softening of tone that comes as their drive to fulfill a keystone campaign promise encounters disunity, drooping momentum and uneasy voters. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

GOP mulls ‘repairing’ Obamacare law it vowed to repeal

By ALAN FRAM and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has lashed out at U.S. policies, but the White House made clear Wednesday that it would not tolerate Tehran's belligerence. (Associated Press)

Iran will test if Donald Trump is all talk and no action

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama, center, and first lady Michelle Obama, left, listen to Chancelor Bennett, &quot;Chance the Rapper&quot;, right, from Chicago, perform at the lighting the 2016 National Christmas Tree ceremony at the Ellipse near the White House in Washington. The rapper tweeted a photo of himself on Feb. 2, 2017, wearing Obama-themed clothing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Chance the Rapper models ‘Thank You Obama’ clothing line

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Illustration on Google and the Trump administration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Google cozies to Trump but calls for his impeachment

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Man who helped foreigner give to Obama group gets probation

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Marine One, with President Donald Trump aboard, lands at Dover Air Force Base, Del. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. Trump traveled to Dover AFB to meet with family members Chief of Special Warfare Operator William &quot;Ryan&quot; Owens, 36, of Peoria, Ill, the U.S. service member who was killed in a raid in Yemen, and who's remains where returned today. Owens is the first-know combat death of a member of the U.S. military under Trump's administration. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Trump briefed on Yemen 4 days after inauguration

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. The Republican-controlled House on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, took its first steps toward strengthening gun ownership under President Donald Trump, moving to scrap a requirement for background checks for Social Security recipients mentally incapable of managing their own affairs. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Congress scraps Obama rules on coal mining, guns

By KEVIN FREKING and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Never quiet for long

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Judge Neil Gorsuch speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, after President Donald Trump announced Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Neal Katyal, former Obama official, endorses Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 31, 2017, photo, Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist to President Donald Trump, left, and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus stand in the East Room of the White House in Washington before President Donald Trump arrived to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. The Trump administration is playing down the significance of a National Security Council restructuring. But the president is treading new ground in making Bannon a regular at NSC meetings. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

IS NSC shakeup ‘crazy’ or no big deal?

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

The Australian prime minister declined to comment on reports that President Trump had hung up on him after a testy exchange over a refugee program. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Malcolm Turnbull denies Trump canceled refugee deal in testy call

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Illustration on undoing the effects of Obama's administration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

When normalcy is revolution

By Victor Davis Hanson

White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Spicer answered questions about the extreme vetting executive order, the upcoming Supreme court announcement, and other topics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House: No Americans will be targeted in terror strikes

By VIVIAN SALAMA and EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 26, 2017, photo White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, left, and senior adviser Steve Bannon, right, walk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, after returning via Marine One from a trip to Philadelphia with President Donald Trump. Since taking office 10 days ago, President Donald Trump has moved to consolidate power within a small cadre of close aides at the White House. He’s added a senior political adviser to the National Security Council and appears to have cut out Cabinet secretaries from decision making on some of his top policies, including the immigration and refugee order that led to protests, legal challenges and temporary detention of some legal U.S. residents this weekend. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

In new White House, a look at Trump’s inner circle

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during his final presidential news conference, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Dismayed by the Trump administration’s first days, Barack Obama's loyalists, former aides and even his spokesman speaking out and even actively resisting the new American leader. It’s a warning to President Donald Trump that his actions won’t go unchallenged by those who occupied the White House before him. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama fights back: Former president’s orbit resists Trump

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

President Trump fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama administration holdover, after she “betrayed the Department of Justice” by refusing to defend his executive order for extreme vetting, according to the White House. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) ** FILE **

Sally Yates, acting Attorney General, fired by Trump

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times