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In this photo taken on Sept. 17, 2014, Elaine Timms, an employee of Phoenix of Anderson, sorts fabrics inside the company's warehouse in Williamston. S.C. The Commerce Department releases third-quarter gross domestic product on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Anderson Independent Mail, Nathan Gray)

White House touts economic growth, says minimum-wage hike would spur recovery

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest was among those who joined in the diplomatic uproar over an anonymous "chicken[***] remark about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Associated Press)

Josh Earnest compares quarantine for U.S. troops to mandatory haircuts

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, to board Marine One for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base then onto Maine for Democratic National Committee and campaign events. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama held secret meeting on response to Hurricane Sandy

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

People watch smoke from an airstrike by the US-led coalition rising outside Kobani, Syria, from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Hagel: Assad benefiting from U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama's closed-door fundraisers are examples of an unacceptable level of White House secrecy and censorship, critics argue. (Associated Press)

Obama’s party fundraisers shutting out media

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at an event with American health care workers fighting the Ebola virus, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama on Ebola fight: US can’t seal itself off

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said the Obama policy on Syria will be nothing like Bush-era war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

U.S. national security adviser says Iraq to blame for lack of security after 2011

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Then-White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington in this June 2, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jay Carney warns Democrats are ‘going to have a bad Election Day’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Associated Press)

Cyberattack on White House not reported to lawmakers; Russian link unconfirmed

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

As reporters take notes, Ebola coordinator Ron Klain listens to President Barack Obama as he speaks to the media about the government’s Ebola response in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

EDITORIAL: The Ebola czar goes AWOL

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this July 31, 2014 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. After the Federal Reserve began buying $600 billion in U.S. government bonds in November 2010 as part of its expanded quantitative easing program, Boehner argued that the central bank risked creating &#8220;hard-to-control&#8221; inflation, a weak U.S. dollar and market bubbles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Boehner: Obama confusing friends and enemies over Israel, Iran

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke at North Division High School on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama to call early childhood education summit

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Not allowing reporters or TV cameras in the Oval Office Oct. 24 when President Obama hugged Ebola survivor Nina Pham showed a lack of transparency. (Associated Press)

JOSEPH CURL: Ebola nurse meeting shows Obama’s lack of transparency

By Joseph Curl

John Kerry in an anti-contamination suit. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

John Kerry ‘somersaulting through space’ like Bullock in ‘Gravity’, White House officials tell NYT

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. (Associated Press)

Obama, Republican governors in Ebola battle

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘National Insecurity’

By Kenneth Allard - Special to The Washington Times

President Obama. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

White House computer network hacked; temporary loss of some devices

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Oct. 22, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama to speak on efforts to stop Ebola outbreak in Africa

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and Maryland Gubernatorial Democrat candidate Lt. Governor Anthony Brown campaign at an Early Vote Rally at Dr. Henry Wise High School in Upper Marlboro, Md., Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014. This is Obama's first major campaign appearances of the midterm elections. Brown lost to Republican Larry Hogan in a shocker on election night (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Governors central to implementing Obama’s agenda, White House says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff celebrates her victory at a hotel in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014. Official results showed Sunday that President Rousseff defeated opposition candidate Aecio Neves of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, and was re-elected Brazil's president. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Obama congratulates Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on re-election

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times