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Avril Haines. (Image: Pete Souza/White House)

Avril Haines picked by Obama as deputy CIA director for White House post

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A U.S. Secret Service agent waits by the spare limousine before President Barack Obama's motorcade departs for a tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, Nov. 17, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

FLASHBACK: Secret Service needs outside leadership to drive culture change, review finds

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions about President Barack Obama's announced change in U.S. policy with Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House threatens ‘proportional’ response to North Korea cyberattacks on Sony Pictures

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Reince Priebus has made several changes in presidential-nomination rules in his tenure as RNC chairman with the aim of avoiding a long, drawn-out primary process. (Associated Press)

JOSEPH CURL: Republican strategy for picking a presidential winner

By Joseph Curl

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., talks about his agenda for a GOP-controlled Congress during an interview with The Associated Press at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. McConnell says approving the Keystone XL pipeline will top the Senate agenda in January. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP Interview: McConnell wants to stop coal rules

By Erica Werner - Associated Press

In this Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013, file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro, as it rains during a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa. (AP Photo/File) ** FILE **

U.S., Cuba seek to normalize relations

By Julie Pace and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

President Obama has said he, like every other black professional man his age, has been mistaken for a restaurant valet. (Associated Press/File)

Obama runs with ‘presidential memoranda,’ but brags of few executive orders

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Birds fly past at sun set as smoke emits from a chimney at a factory in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The momentum from a historic U.S.-China pact to resist global warming is showing signs of fading at the U.N. climate talks in Peru as the familiar rich-poor conflict persists over who should do what to keep the planet from overheating. The conference's high-level phase begins Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

Manufacturers see little hope for Obamacare relief

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, frets that the Obama administration is willing to negotiate the release of spies or terrorists. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Inside the Beltway: Obama’s Cuba relations decision the latest fury-maker

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Anti-Castro protester Lazaro Lozano (left) argues with a pro-Obama supporter in the Little Havana area of Miami Wednesday in the wake of an Obama administration announcement that could mean a major shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba. (Associated Press)

Obama Cuba policy reversal excites U.S. businesses, ignites firestorm on Hill

By Ben Wolfgang and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Poster for the movie Act of Valor.

Special operations forces tactics compromised by Hollywood, media reports

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Hillary Clinton wants to go to Cuba

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Rick Perry answers questions during an interview with The Associated Press at the historic Texas Governor's Mansion, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Rick Perry: Obama has a ‘totally different’ understanding of ‘secure border’ than me

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jeb Bush announcement puts pressure on donors, other Republican establishment candidates

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, offered muted protest when President Obama declared Bristol Bay exempt from energy exploration indefinitely. "It is incredibly frustrating that this administration looks at Alaska ... and decides that conservation is our most pressing need," she said. (Associated Press)

Obama withdraws Bristol Bay from mining

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks to troops at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. President Barack Obama says every American who has served in Afghanistan should be proud of what they've accomplished. Obama is observing the end of combat operations in Afghanistan by visiting U.S. troops at New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The base has been a launching point for deployments to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama amnesty is unconstitutional, federal judge finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

On Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took his most definitive step yet toward running for president, announcing plans to "actively explore" a campaign and form a new political operation allowing him to raise money for like-minded Republicans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

RUSTY HUMPHRIES: Jeb Bush … Really? We can’t do better?

By Rusty Humphries

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at Georgetown University in Washington in this Dec. 3, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Hillary Clinton: Good decisions based on ‘evidence,’ not ideology, gut feelings

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Central Intelligence Director (CIA) Director John Brennan gestures during a news conference at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Brennan is pushing back hard against the wave of criticism following a Senate Intelligence Committee report detailing harsh interrogation tactics employed by intelligence community people against terrorism war-era detainees. Brennan and several past CIA leaders fear the historical record may define them as torturers instead of patriots. The CIA is now in the uncomfortable position of defending itself publicly, given its basic mission to protect the country secretly. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: The White House wants it both ways on torture report

By Christine O’Donnell - The Washington Times