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Benjamin Netanyahu's fervent criticism of the Obama administration's pursuit of an Iran nuclear deal is likely to continue to strain Israel's alliance with Washington. (Associated Press)

Benjamin Netanyahu win forces Obama to re-evaluate Middle East peace strategy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters In Tel Aviv. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud wins Israeli election

By Aron Heller - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by the US Secret Service shows the drone that crashed onto the White House grounds in Washington, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. An intelligence agency employee whose drone crashed on the White House lawn earlier this year won't face criminal charges, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in Washington announced Wednesday. Shawn Usman, who works for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, was piloting the borrowed drone in downtown Washington early on Jan. 26 when he lost control of it. Prosecutors said Usman, who had borrowed the drone from a friend, tried to regain control of the aircraft while it was flying westward and climbed to about 100 feet at about 3 a.m. (AP Photo/US Secret Service)

No charges for man who crashed drone onto White House lawn

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. holds-up a synopsis of the House Republican budget proposal as he announces the plan on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. The plan includes a boost in defense spending but cuts in the Medicaid program for the poor, food stamps and health care subsidies. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

GOP budget repeals Obamacare, cuts $5.5 trillion

By Dave Boyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: Obama’s Iran deal no good if not ‘legally binding’

By Clifford D. May

In this June 23, 2011, file photo, CIA Director nominee Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Intelligence Committee during a hearing on his nomination. The Justice Department said Tuesday, March 3, 2015, that the former top Army general has agreed to plead guilty to mishandling classified materials. A statement from the agency says a plea agreement has been filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte, N.C., the hometown of Paula Broadwell, the general&#8217;s biographer and former mistress. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama officials consulting David Petraeus on Islamic State fight

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

White House defends move to curb records requests

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Uniformed Secret Service agents patrol the top of the White House as seen from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. According to the Secret Service a letter sent to the White House tentatively tested positive for cyanide. The letter was received at an off-site mail screening facility on March 16 and additional testing Tuesday returned a "presumptive positive" for cyanide. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Cyanide test positive in letter to White House

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on March 2, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

White House criticizes Mitch McConnell for delay in Loretta Lynch vote

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** White House Adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Report: Valerie Jarrett orchestrated Hillary Clinton email leak

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell speaks at the National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Republicans beware: Rushing to approve Obama’s bad patent legislation isn’t a victory

By Ken Blackwell

White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett (Associated Press) **FILE**

Valerie Jarrett: ‘I intend to stay until the lights go off’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This Oct. 1, 2014, courtroom artist rendering shows U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson, left, presiding during Omar J. Gonzalez's , center, case in court in Washington. Gonzalez, the man accused of jumping a White House fence and running into the presidential mansion while carrying a knife now faces a new weapons charge. A federal grand jury returned the charge of possession of illegal ammunition magazines against Gonzalez in an updated indictment Thursday, Oct. 16. Gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds were recovered from Gonzalez’s car after his arrest. Such magazines are illegal under District of Columbia law. (AP Photo/Dana Verkouteren)

White House fence jumper pleads guilty to 2 charges

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

A silhouetted President Barack Obama waves after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Obama is in New York for three days of talks with foreign leaders at the annual United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Clinton email scandal shows Obama out of touch with government problems, analysts say

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Obama pauses as he shakes hands with people in the crowd after speaking at College Green in Dublin, Ireland, on May 23, 2011, while Mark Connolly (far left), the second-in-command on Obama's security detail, stands by. The Homeland Security Department is investigating Connolly and another senior Secret Service agent accused of crashing a car into a White House security barrier, an agency spokesman says. (Associated Press)

Secret Service supervisors attended party that led to incident

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Retired Marine Corps Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a close military adviser to President Obama, was reportedly the target of a Justice Department criminal investigation into leaks to The New York Times. (Associated Press)

Obama protects generals in leak probes while low-level employees go to jail

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A Secret Service officer and Secret Service agents provide security as Marine One carries President Barack Obama off the South Lawn of the White House, on Thursday, March 12, 2015, in Washington. Obama to traveling to Los Angeles for an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and a DNC fundraiser. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: Secret Service must clean up

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Secretary of State John Kerry talks at the State Department in Washington in this Feb. 27, 2015, file photo. On March 11, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hear from John Kerry, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

John Kerry, Ashton Carter, Martin Dempsey to testify in Senate about new war powers

By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press

Members of the Secret Service keep watch as the motorcade that delivered President Barack Obama and his daughters Sasha and Malia is parked, Sunday, March 8, 2015, in Washington, in front of the Library of Congress where the president took his daughters to view the original manuscript of President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Second Inaugural Address, which the Library of Congress put on display to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its delivery. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Secret Service agents investigated after reportedly driving government cars after drinking

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Hillary Rodham Clinton could face up to three years in prison per message if she is found to have broken her word and handled classified information on the secret account, one open records expert told The Washington Times. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton could face jail time as email scandal sparks legal challenges

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times