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President Barack Obama listens to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, as soldiers who are part of the Wounded Warrior Project&#8217;s Soldier Ride, race past, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, during an event honoring the seventh annual Soldier Ride. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Obama to meet Eric Shinseki over secretary’s handling of VA

By S.A. Miller and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Deborah Peter, center, holds up a sign, flanked by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. right, and the committee's ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. during a pre-hearing medial availability on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Peter, is a sole survivor of a Dec. 11, 2011, Boko Haram attack on her household, where her father and brother were killed for not renouncing their Christian faith. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Royce presses for stronger push against Boko Haram

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this May 15, 2014, photo, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki speaks with the news media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Shinseki would be granted more authority to fire or demote senior executives under a bill headed to the House floor. The measure comes as pressure builds on Capitol Hill to overhaul the beleaguered agency in response to allegations of treatment delays and preventable deaths. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

IG: VA investigations expanded to 26 facilities

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2014, photo, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki speaks with the news media on Capitol Hill in Washington. Shinseki would be granted more authority to fire or demote senior executives under a bill headed to the House floor. The measure comes as pressure builds on Capitol Hill to overhaul the beleaguered agency in response to allegations of treatment delays and preventable deaths. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama vows fix to veterans’ health care troubles

By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Young Montana scientists travel to White House

Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel points at a cabinet member as she leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

EDITORIAL: For Obama, the buck stops elsewhere

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This Oct. 21, 2013, file photo shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough listening to President Barack Obama speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

White House upset with House defense bill

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

CIA: Vaccination programs won’t be used as cover

By STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

FILE - This May 12, 2014 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama applauding as she and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, hosted their annual Mother’s Day tea to honor military mothers, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Count on singing and dancing, maybe even a few magic tricks, when the curtain goes up Tuesday on the very first White House talent show. Michelle Obama and the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities are the hosts for the show, featuring acts by students from poor-performing schools that participate in the committee's Turnaround Arts program. Several major artists, including actress Sarah Jessica Parker, are slated to perform. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

First lady: Arts education good for good schools

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Georgia editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Rob Nabors, President Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff, leaves a closed-door meeting between Obama and Senate Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington. Burned by the failed rollout of his health care law, President Barack Obama is seeking to build a team for the final years of his administration where management expertise may trump keen political or legislative skills. As it seeks to shore up its response, the White House is turning to the same playbook it used during the health care enrollment debacle, when Obama dispatched longtime aide Jeffrey Zients to the Health and Human Services Department to oversee efforts to fix the woeful HealthCare.gov website. Obama made a similar move last week, temporarily assigning Nabors to the VA to lead an internal review of agency policies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama administration focuses on following through

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney listens during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House sends mixed signals on when Obama learned of VA problems

By Ben Wolfgang and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama waits to speak to troops, veterans and military families at the 3rd Infantry Division headquarters at Fort Stewart, Ga., on April 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

White House responds to Washington Times report, defends efforts to improve VA wait times

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Thursday, May 8, 2014 and made available Tuesday, May, 13, 2014, children play on an anti-aircraft gun in Leer, in oil-rich Unity State, South Sudan. Bodies stuffed in wells. Houses burned down. Children playing on military hardware. And young infants showing the skeletal outlines of severe hunger. These are the scenes from a remote part of South Sudan _ Leer _ where the aid group Doctors Without Borders has just begun feeding severely malnourished children about three months after the group’s hospital was destroyed in violence that has been ripping apart the country since December. (AP Photo/Josphat Kasire)

U.S. to pledge $300 million in aid for South Sudan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A gunman aims his weapon in the hatch of a car at a local administration building preparing to patrol in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 19, 2014, with a huge Donetsk People's Republic flag in the background. Heavy mortar fire outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk has damaged a large gas pipeline and set off a fire. Slovyansk has been the epicenter of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian insurgents, who have seized government buildings across the east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

White House: No sign Russian troops pulling back

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A woman gets a flu vaccination from a nurse at a subway station in Mexico City, Monday Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo) ** FILE **

CIA: Will not use vaccination programs for spying

Associated Press

** FILE ** This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Dianne Feinstein touts Hillary Clinton as ‘foreign policy’ expert candidate

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo)

Joe Biden sends corsage to teen who asked him to prom

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

**FILE** This photo from March 6, 2011, shows then-Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough speaking in Sterling, Va. He is now the White House Chief of Staff. (Associated Press)

Obama’s past work for veterans doesn’t placate vets groups on Phoenix VA scandal

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Oct. 3, 2013, file photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., speaks at a news conference in Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Red state Democrats in risky races skip ‘fairness’ frenzy

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times