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Steve Bannon, appointed chief strategist and senior counselor to President-elect Donald Trump, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, for the presidential Inauguration of Trump. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Bernie Sanders: Remove Stephen Bannon from National Security Council

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

National Security Adviser Susan Rice during the daily press briefing in Washington on July 22, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Susan Rice, ex-national security advisor, hits Trump reshuffle of National Security Council

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This is a Wednesday, July 20, 2016 file photo of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he speaks after an emergency meeting of the government in Ankara, Turkey. Erdogan hinted on Thursday Sept. 29, 2016 that the three-month state of emergency declared following the failed July 15 coup could be extended to over a year, a day after the national security council recommended it be extended for another three months. (AP Photo/File)

Erdogan hints state of emergency can be extended to a year

Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks with Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., his nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, after speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Obama chose the widely respected, combat-hardened commander who led the Afghanistan war coalition during a key transitional period during 2013-2014 to succeed Army Gen. Martin Dempsey. Walking behind them is Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Defense bill amendment targets Obama micromanagement, gives Pentagon leverage

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Sept. 30, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

White House on defense as furor grows over Israeli spying report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Obama national security team pokes Benjamin Netanyahu with ‘wrong for 25 years’ tweet

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. coy about North Korea Internet failure as retaliation speculation swirls

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rice helping Obama juggle foreign policy crises

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, some of several thousand people turn onto Peachtree Street from Martin Luther King Jr. Drive as they participate in the one mile silent memorial walk after a Georgia Right to Life rally in Atlanta, Ga. on the 39th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision of 1973 which legalized abortion. In March 2014, The National Right to Life Committee recently voted to cut ties with Georgia Right to Life, one of its most zealous state affiliates. The move, which angered many anti-abortion activists nationwide, came after the affiliate defied instructions to endorse an anti-abortion bill in Congress because it included exceptions for rape and incest while seeking to ban most abortions after 20 weeks. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jason Getz)

Abortion in cases of rape: New rifts in old debate

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Elderly Chinese women sit on the sidewalk near a checkpoint set up as part of increased security during a weekend gathering of the Communist Party's 205-member Central Committee for its third annual plenum in Beijing on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. In a brief statement China's leaders promised to give the free market an even bigger role as they overhaul the worn-out growth model of their slowing, government-dominated economy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese leaders promise bigger role for free market

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

White house staffer Jofi Joseph fired for tweets.

Obama aide fired for Twitter account used to bash White House, Republicans

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.N. Ambassador, listens to Obama speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, where he made the announcement. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Samantha Power, U.N. ambassador nominee, sidesteps questions on comments critical of U.S.

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the APEC Summit in Honolulu. In the simplistic narrative of U.S. presidential politics, China is a Hollywood villain, a monetary cheat that is stealing American jobs. But in the debate Tuesday night, Oct. 16, 2012 the one-dimensional caricature offered up by Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney obscures the crucial reality of U.S.-China relations: For all the talk about getting tough on Beijing, the U.S. and China are deeply entwined, defying easy solutions to the friction and troubles that beset their relations. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama rejected tough options for countering Chinese cyber attacks two years ago

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

SANDERS: Getting around advise and consent

By Sol Sanders

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Syria unleashes helicopters on rebels in Aleppo

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Khairat al-Shater, a presidential hopeful, filed election papers on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Muslim Brotherhood seeks U.S. alliance as it ascends in Egypt

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

**FILE** A U.S. Predator drone flies over southern Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s secret death panel

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

The Obama administration is delaying its response to Taiwan's request to buy an additional 66 F-16 jet fighters. (Associated Press)

TKACIK: White House bickering and Taiwan’s F-16s

By John J. Tkacik Jr. - The Washington Times

Reagan’s famous line nearly clipped from Berlin speech