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This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

ISIL sleeper cells planning ‘Zero Hour’ attack on Baghdad: ‘It can come any minute’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, March 26, 2010, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq convenes lawmakers to forge unity government to fight caliphate

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Franco Gussalli Beretta, a director of Beretta USA Corp., speaks Wednesday during a ceremony at the state Capitol in Nashville, Tenn., to announce that the Italian firearms maker is building a new manufacturing a research facility in the state. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig

Gun makers flee Northeast for ‘true blood Second Amendment’ states

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (Associated Press)

22 suspected Mexican gang members killed in bloody shootout

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers investigate the scene of an suicide attack in the Torkham, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on June 19. Afghan officials say three Taliban suicide bombers targeted NATO fuel trucks at the border with Pakistan, setting off a gunbattle with police guards. (Associated Press)

Taliban destroy dozens of NATO supply trucks in Afghanistan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 27, 2014, file photo President Barack Obama speaks about the future of US troops in Afghanistan at the White House in Washington. Obama stood in the Rose Garden and outlined a timetable for the gradual withdrawal of the last U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He confidently declared, "This is how wars end in the 21st century." But less than three weeks later, there is a sudden burst of uncertainty surrounding the way Obama has moved to bring the two conflicts he inherited to a close. In Iraq, a fast-moving Islamic insurgency is pressing toward Baghdad, raising the possibility of fresh American military action more than two years after the last U.S. troops withdrew. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Obama quietly moves 12 detainees from U.S. military prison in Afghanistan: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton touts Germany’s model of female leadership: ‘We are way behind you’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2014. Netanyahu has condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' agreement with the militant group, and said he would hold him responsible for the safety of the youths, who disappeared apparently while hitchhiking in the West Bank late Thursday. (AP Photos/Dan Balilty)

Israel blames Hamas for abduction of 3 teens

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE- This file photo provided by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce shows Coast Guard Beach in Cape Cod, Mass. Coast Guard Beach is number eight on the 2014 list of Top 10 Beaches produced annually by coastal expert Stephen P. Leatherman, also known as &quot;Dr. Beach,&quot; director of Florida International University's Laboratory for Coastal Research. (AP Photo/Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, Margo Tabb, File)

Iconic Cape Cod beaches in Massachusetts poised to ban smoking

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

People on the Mexican side of the international border worship while Cardinal Sean O'Malley leads mass, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in Nogales, Ariz. A delegation of Roman Catholic leaders celebrated Mass along the U.S.-Mexico border to raise awareness about immigration and to pray for policy changes. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Illegal immigrant who dodged deportation by hiding in church gets fed OK to stay

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Governor Nathan Deal makes remarks as State Rep Calvin Smyre, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King listen at the state Capitol Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Tuesday marks the last day the governor can sign bills into law. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kent D. Johnson) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

Fed ‘bureaucrat’ warns Georgia not to drug test food stamp recipients

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Virginia Flaggers raise the Confederate battle flag near Interstate 95 in Chester, Va., on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013. Hundreds gathered in freshly cleared woods for the event, celebrated with a volley fired from the rifles of Confederate re-enactors. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia group hoists huge Confederate flag along I-95

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Tom Knorr, chairman of the Measure A campaign in Tehama County, holds a State of Jefferson flag as he poses for photographs at his ranch house in Corning, Calif., Tuesday, May 27, 2014. The idea of forming their own state has been a topic among local secession dreamers for more than a century in California’s largely rural, agrarian and politically conservative far northern counties. Residents in two counties, Del Norte and Tehama, will decide June 3, 2014, on an advisory measure that asks each county’s board of supervisors to join a wider effort to form a 51st state named Jefferson. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

California counties to vote to create new state: Jefferson, a freestanding republic

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Elton John and partner David Furnish in 2005. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Gay dads have brain activity that resembles both mothers and fathers, study finds

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**FILE** In this April 15, 2014 photo, Barrett Griner IV plays fetch with his five-year-old German shepherd, IV, in Bridgeton, N.J. (AP Photo/South Jersey Times, Cindy Hepner)

Dogs can detect prostate cancer with 98% accuracy, study finds

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, May 17, 2014 photo, North Korean officials stand among the families of victims of an accident at an apartment construction site in Pyongyang, North Korea, during a gathering in the capital where senior officials apologized and took responsibility. The word of the collapse in the secretive nation's capital was reported Sunday morning by the North's official Korean Central News Agency, which gave no death toll but said that the accident was "serious" and upset North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

North Korea offers rare apology after apartment building collapses

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, convicted felons from Yolo County arrive at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California may distribute condoms to prison inmates

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A woman holds a sign during a rally near the Nigerian embassy to raise to show support for the release of the kidnapped girls in Nigeria in Paris, Monday, May 12, 2014. A French official says Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has agreed to attend a security summit on Saturday in Paris to focus on the Boko Haram terrorist network, which abducted more than 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month. Signs center and left read, save the Nigerian schoolgirls. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Nigeria will not negotiate with Boko Haram, U.K. official says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 26, 2014 file photo, California state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, right, leaves the San Francisco Federal Building in San Francisco. The FBI spent many millions of dollars and used more than a dozen undercover operatives posing as honest businessmen and Mafia figures alike during its seven year organized crime investigation centered in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Now, an increasing number of the defendants caught up in the probe that has ensnared a state senator and an aide are arguing that the FBI and its undercover agents are guilty of entrapment, luring otherwise honest people to go along with criminal schemes hatched by federal officials. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

California moves to ban lobbyists from throwing home bashes for politicos

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times