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North Korean soldiers march during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate 100 years since the birth of North Korean founder, Kim Il Sung on April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

White House says 3,000 North Korean soldiers are training in eastern Russia

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Blindfolded and bounded wrists activists take part in a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) **FILE**

White House: U.S. still committed to Gaza deal despite hostage deaths, gripes about Netanyahu

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Patients and families move outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

White House says Cairo talks remain on course for Gaza cease-fire and hostage release

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks to reporters upon his arrival to Joint Base Andrews, Md., en route to the White House, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

White House says Biden not just biding his time until election

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

White House slams key Israeli critic of emerging hostage deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Biden team scrambles to ‘prevent an escalation’ in Mideast

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Nahalat Yitshak Cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, June 18, 2024. The ceremony marked the annual memorial for people killed in Israel’s Altalena affair -- a violent clash between rival Jewish forces that nearly pushed the newly independent Israel into civil war in 1948. (Shaul Golan/Pool Photo via AP)

‘Vexing’ and ‘perplexing’: White House chastises Netanyahu over video

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. redirects interceptor missile deliveries to Ukraine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People block a road as they try to stop the trucks, carrying humanitarian aid, to enter in the Gaza Strip in an area near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, in Kerem Shalom, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

White House insists Israel is getting ‘everything they need’ after Biden halts arms shipment

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over Gaza City, Gaza Strip on March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa) **FILE**

Biden administration applauds Israel’s release of probe into airstrike on aid workers in Gaza

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

White House national security communications adviser John Kirby speaks at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kirby: U.S. planned airdrops into Gaza are a supplemental effort, a cease-fire plan is still needed

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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Council spokesman John Kirby listen to a question during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Tensions between dueling press secretaries threaten to undercut Biden’s election-year message

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden receives the Presidential Daily Briefing, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, in the White House Situation Room at the White House in Washington, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin listens. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP) **FILE**

Biden says he’s decided how to retaliate for drone strike that killed U.S. troops

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden receives the Presidential Daily Briefing, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, in the White House Situation Room at the White House in Washington, as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin listens. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP) **FILE**

Tight-lipped Biden says he’s decided on payback for deadly militia strike

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

BART Police Officer Eric Hofstein displays the fentanyl he confiscated while patrolling the Civic Center Station BART platform in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. (Jessica Christian /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

U.S. and Chinese officials meet to begin implementing fentanyl-chemical deal

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Sept. 13, 2023. Even for a nation that has perfected the provocative, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s declaration that he would abandon the existential goal of reconciling with rival South Korea was a shock. But a closer look shows it’s the almost inevitable culmination of years of building tension. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. on guard vs. Kim Jong-un’s aggressive tilt

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

‘Heartbreaking’: White House reacts to accidental killing of hostages by Israeli forces

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

White House aims to alleviate suffering in Gaza as U.N. warns of collapse

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Airmen with the 436th Aerial Port Squadron use a forklift to move 155 mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine, April 29, 2022, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. When U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday, Sept. 30, that averted a widely expected government shutdown, the measure didn’t include the $6 billion in military assistance that Ukraine said it urgently needed. Now the Pentagon, White House and European allies are urging Congress to quickly reconsider. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

U.S. is almost ‘out of Schlitz’ when it comes to helping Ukraine, White House says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden pauses as he speaks to reporters in Nantucket, Mass., Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, about hostages freed by Hamas in a third set of releases under a four-day cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) **FILE**

White House refuses to say if Biden apologized for questioning Hamas on death toll

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times