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** FILE ** President Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at a Democratic National Committee reception in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

North Korea’s screed: Obama is ‘a crossbreed’ with ‘figure of a monkey’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama smiles as he goes to walk off of the stage after speaking at a Democratic National Committee reception in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, May 8, 2014. Obama is spending three days in California raising money for the Democratic party. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

At Wal-Mart, Obama praises steps on solar power

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, joined at right by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., responds to a point from Democrats on the panel as lawmakers work on the creation of a special select committee to investigate the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. House Republicans on Wednesday moved toward an election-year special investigation of the deadly attack, brushing aside Democratic concerns over the panel's scope and composition. The Obama administration, meanwhile, accused Republicans of "political motivation" after they issued a fundraising email linked to the Benghazi probe. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House votes to create special panel for Benghazi investigation

By David Sherfinski and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles as she walks on stage during the Philanthropy New York's annual meeting, Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at the Ford Foundation in New York. Clinton was interviewed by television journalist Robin Roberts during the event. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

CURL: Hillary Clinton should be worried as Benghazi mess builds at her feet

By Joseph Curl

President Barack Obama speaks at a celebration of Cinco de Mayo in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s actions on night of Benghazi attack under scrutiny

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter hold a joint news conference in the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Russia has pulled back its troops from the Ukrainian border, Vladimir Putin told diplomats Wednesday as he urged insurgents in southeast Ukraine to postpone their planned referendum Sunday on autonomy. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)

White House disputes Putin claim of Russian troop withdrawal from Ukraine border

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 24, 2013, file photo, the Capitol Dome is seen behind the Capitol Power Plant in Washington. Democrats running for election in key states are worried about the political fallout from unprecedented greenhouse-gas limits soon to be announced by fellow Democrat Barack Obama's administration. They wish Obama would wait until after November's elections, but if he doesn't start now the rules won't be in place by the time he leaves office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama climate rules can’t wait ‘til after election

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Driver charged, released in White House incident

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FILE - In this July 25, 2012, file photo, then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two of President Barack Obama’s closest first-term advisers will soon spill insider details on the administration’s handling of the early days of the Great Recession, the White House’s cautious response to the Syrian civil war and the genesis of clandestine talks with Iran. The memoirs from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Geithner will be the latest installments in an often awkward Washington ritual: one-time confidants signing big book contracts to examine a presidency that is ongoing and policy decisions that still are being implemented. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

White House awaits top aides’ back-to-back memoirs

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Illustration on pressing President Obama for the truth on Benghazi by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: Learning the truth about Benghazi

By Andrew P. Napolitano

**FILE** The White House is seen through a keyhole in the fence on Aug. 29, 2013. (Associated Press)

Driver in custody after prompting White House lockdown

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

**FILE** Al Roker (Associated Press)

Obama woos weathermen to sell climate-change agenda

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Authorisms’

By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** This March 13, 2014, file photo shows cracks in the dry bed of the Stevens Creek Reservoir in Cupertino, Calif. The Obama administration is more certain than ever that global warming is changing Americans' daily lives and will worsen. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

GOP rejects grim White House climate change report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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Jared Bernstein

LAMBRO: The ugly, unvarnished Obama jobs record

By Donald Lambro

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 1992 file photo, a sailboat sits on a sidewalk at Dinner Key in Miami after it was washed ashore by Hurricane Andrew. Global warming is rapidly turning America into a stormy and dangerous place, with rising seas and disasters upending lives from flood-stricken Florida to the wildfire-ravaged West, the National Climate Assessment concluded Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)

Federal report: Warming disrupts Americans’ lives

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Georgia editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this May 30, 2013, file photo, water splashes over the Center Street Dam in the swollen Des Moines River in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. Climate change's assorted harms "are expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond," the National Climate Assessment concluded Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Texas-based radio station mocks Obama’s climate report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this May 8, 2013, file photo, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., questions a witness during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Dems undecided on taking part in Benghazi panel

By BRADLEY KLAPPER and DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Illustration on Democrat deception on Benghazi by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BIRNBAUM: Ruing the Benghazi ruse

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum