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Shakespeare Theatre ‘White House’ gets a cleaning

By WES DUPLANTIER - Associated Press

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama disembark from Air Force One as they arrive Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Thursday, April 10, 2014, from a trip in Texas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obamas paid $98K in taxes in 2013, White House says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Obama hails Sebelius, pivots to Sylvia Mathews Burwell to clean up troubled Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Obamas pay $98,169 in taxes on income of $481,098

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Nov. 9, 1979, file photo, one of the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is displayed to the crowd, blindfolded and with his hands bound, outside the embassy. Fifty-two of the hostages endured 444 days of captivity. Former Iranian hostages had varied reactions to the news of the nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran in what is being billed as a trust-building agreement designed to yield a more comprehensive deal six months from now. (AP Photo/File)

White House to Iran: No visa for U.N. nominee with links to hostage crisis

By Julie Pace - Associated Press

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius listens as she testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 10, 2014, before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the HHS Department's fiscal Year 2015 budget. A White House official says Sebelius is resigning from the Obama administration. The move comes just a week after the close of the rocky enrollment period for President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

New ‘face,’ but some old problems for ‘Obamacare’

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, stands with his nominee to become Health and Human Services secretary, Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 11, 2014, where he made the announcement. Burwell would replace Kathleen Sebelius who announced her resignation Thursday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama taps budget guru, technocrat for health job

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

President Obama reacts during an Oval Office meeting in this file photo. (White House photo/Pete Souza) ** FILE **

Democrats press Obama for Keystone pipeline decision

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

First lady Michelle Obama talks to the kids after they exercised and danced with the Super Sprowtz during a visit to La Petite Academy in Bowie, Md., Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, to promote healthy environments and encouraging healthy habits at preschools as part of her Let's Move! Child Care program. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

First lady kidnaps the Easter bunny

By Ernest Istook

Obamacare Donkey Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PHILLIPS: Obamacare’s unfunny April Fools’ joke

By Tim Phillips

FILE - This July 2, 1964 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the civil rights bill, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. With Washington mired in congressional gridlock, it’s become trendy in the nation’s capital to long for the days when LBJ could cajole or strong-arm lawmakers on both sides of the aisle into backing his legislative priorities. Implicit in those bouts of nostalgia is a sentiment that frustrates President Barack Obama and his advisers: the notion that the current commander-in-chief could break Washington’s logjam if only he emulated Johnson’s hands-on approach to dealing with Capitol Hill. Standing from left, are: Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill; Rep. Clarence Brown, R-Ohio; Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn; Rep. Charles Halleck, R-Ind; Rep. William McCullough, R-Ohio; and Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-NY. (AP Photo, File)

For Obama, frustration in comparisons to LBJ

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gestures while delivering the keynote address at Marketo’s 2014 Marketing Nation Summit Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Hillary Clinton dances closer to White House: ‘I’m thinking about it’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Candidate Bill Clinton added celebrity to the presidency when he played “Heartbreak Hotel” on his saxophone on the “Arsenio Hall Show” in 1992. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

The White House behaving badly: On the road to stinkburger

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Lilly Ledbetter, center, applauds President Barack Obama, right, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, during an event marking Equal Pay Day. Obama announced new executive actions to strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws for women. The president and his Democratic allies in Congress are making a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women's wages. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: The White House’s ‘equal pay’ hypocrisy

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This March 27, 2014, file photo shows Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Feinstein is appealing to President Barack Obama to remove the CIA from declassifying a torture report harshly critical of the agency’s actions. In a letter to the president, Feinstein says the White House should lead the editing process. Feinstein’s Senate Intelligence Committee voted last week to release parts of the 6,600-page review after information compromising national security is blacked out. Obama has backed the declassification. But the White House has said the CIA will lead that process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Feinstein asks White House to edit torture report

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

President Barack Obama peers out a window with then-Press Secretary Robert Gibbs in the Doheny Memorial Library to scope out the crowd size at a rally at the University of Southern California Alumni Park in Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 22, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

On equal pay for women, Obama challenges GOP to ‘join us in this, the 21st century’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry defends the Obama administration's response to Russia's moves on eastern Ukraine during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. (Associated Press Photographs)

Amid growing unrest, GOP presses for arming Ukraine

By Guy Taylor and Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times