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** FILE ** President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama plans first trip as president to Israel

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (from left), New York Democrat; E. Scott Rigell, Virginia Republican; Patrick Meehan, Pennsylvania Republican; and Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, prepare Tuesday to announce legislation to make firearms trafficking a federal crime and stiffen laws against straw buyers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Straw gun buyers targeted

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Obama gets ready to toss a football in this photo posted on his Twitter feed moments before the Super Bowl kickoff between the Ravens and 49ers. It was taken in 2010. ** FILE **

Photoshop President Obama at your peril, White House warns — but plenty of fodder is available

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Dianne Feinstein (right), California Democrat and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, meets with CIA Director-nominee John Brennan (left), currently assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Senators to target Brennan on drone use at CIA confirmation hearing

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Carney: Drone strikes on Americans overseas are lawful

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** White House Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (Associated Press)

Treasury nominee Jack Lew accused of breaking Medicare law by Republicans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama waves as he exits Air Force One upon his arrival at McCarran International Airport Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in Las Vegas. (Associated Press)

MILLER: Obama’s corporate jet obsession

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

“I want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to keep [football] safer,” President Obama said Sunday. “That means the game’s probably going to evolve a little bit.” (Associated Press)

Obama: Football needs change

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Obama engages in target practice in a shot dated Aug. 4, 2012. (White House)

White House produces photo of skeet-shooting Obama

By David Eldridge - The Washington Times

President Obama waves as he exits Air Force One upon his arrival at McCarran International Airport Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in Las Vegas. (Associated Press)

MILLER: The Obama blame game

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

** FILE ** General Electric's Jeffrey Immelt looks on as President Obama speaks at a round-table discussion with business leaders in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 6, 2010. Mr. Obama is restructuring his economic advisory board and naming Mr. Immelt as it new head. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama will let his Jobs Council expire

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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TAUBE: Obama’s baby steps toward gun control

By Michael Taube

Sen. John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, emerges on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, after a unanimous vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving him to become America's next top diplomat. Mr. Kerry, who has served on the Foreign Relations panel for 28 years and led the committee for the past four, would replace Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)

Senate confirms Kerry nomination for State Dept.

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

President Obama speaks to media as he meets with representatives from Major Cities Chiefs Association and Major County Sheriffs Association at the White House to discuss policies put forward to reduce gun violence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

MILLER: The cop-killer bullet myth

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

**FILE** A couple descend an escalator while shopping at an H&M store in Atlanta on Dec. 12, 2012. (Associated Press)

Payroll tax saps consumer outlook

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Words from the White House’

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

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Free Syrian Army fighter speaks in front of a government intelligence complex in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

U.S. sending $155 million in ‘nonlethal’ aid to Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2013, photo, Egyptian protesters use camera phones to capture a burning state security armored vehicle that demonstrators commandeered during clashes with security forces nearby and brought to Tahrir Square and set it alight, in Cairo, Egypt. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Egypt's army chief warns of "the collapse of the state" if political crisis continues. (AP Photo/Mostafa El Shemy)

Morsi imposes curfew in Egypt as protests leaves dozens dead

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Obama announces in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, that he will nominate Mary Joe White (right) to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will renominate Richard Cordray (left) to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a position he has held for the past year under a recess appointment. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ruling puts presidential power at risk

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Fans of the Egyptian soccer club Al-Ahly celebrate in Cairo on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013, after a court returned 21 death penalties in last year's soccer violence, which left 74 dead inside the club premises. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Morsi imposes curfew in Egypt as protests leaves dozens dead

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times