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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson gives an interview to The Associated Press at the agency's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. (Associated Press)

Congress demands EPA’s secret email accounts

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this June 23, 2011, file photo, then-CIA Director-designate Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Petraeus has resigned because of an extramarital affair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

EDITORIAL: Diplomats died, Obama lied

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, Feb. 20, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House. Asked to name the one step they'd push most urgently if they were the newly re-elected President Barack Obama, a dozen leading economists advise President Barack Obama to sidestep the "fiscal cliff" during his second term of office. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Obama to Hill: Fiscal cliff is ‘urgent business’

By Andrew Taylor - Associated Press

President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, during a meeting to discuss the deficit and economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Hill leaders buoyed by White House talks on fiscal cliff

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Paula Broadwell is visible through the window in the kitchen of her brother's house in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. Broadwell is CIA Director David Petraeus' biographer, with whom he had an affair that led to his abrupt resignation last Friday. It was Broadwell's threatening emails to Jill Kelley, a Florida woman who is a Petraeus family friend, that led to the FBI's discovery of communications between Broadwell and Petraeus indicating they were having an affair. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Grassley questions email sleuthing in Petraeus case

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Secession petitions boosting spirits on right wing

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama listens Feb. 20, 2009, as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: White House petition folly

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

**FILE** Brian Meenan of Millwood, N.Y., takes photos and video of items that were destroyed by Superstorm Sandy in his family's beachfront house on 31st Street on Long Beach Island in Long Beach Township, N.J., on Nov. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama vows not to forget Sandy victims rebuilding

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

President Obama gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama urges Israel, Egypt leaders to ‘de-escalate’ Gaza violence

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters after the House Republicans voted for their leadership for the next session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. He is flanked by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., left, and Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., right. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Agencies warn politicians:  Credit ratings on the line

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

“The security in Benghazi was a struggle and remained a struggle throughout my time there.The situation remained uncertain, and reports from some Libyans indicated it was getting worse. Diplomatic security remained weak.”
— Lt. Col. Andrew Wood

Libya timeline suggests cover-up in attack

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Columns of smoke rise in Gaza City from a series of airstrikes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a clear message to Hamas and other terrorist organizations.” Hamas security officials said two of the organization’s training facilities were among the 20 sites hit. (Associated Press)

Israel prepares for retaliation after killing terrorist leader

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

FBI agents take photographs around the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Nov. 12, 2012. FBI agents appeared at Broadwell’s home carrying the kinds of cardboard boxes often used for evidence gathering during a search. A spokeswoman for the FBI declined to say what the agents were doing there. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer, Robert Lahser)

FBI preparing timeline of its Petraeus probe

By Kimberly Dozier and Pete Yost - Associated Press

Inside Politics: Re-elected Jackson leaves Mayo Clinic

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi introduces newly elected Democratic members of the House on Tuesday. She said it would not be “a good thing for our country for us to go over the cliff.” (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Lawmakers urge compromise, but refuse to budge from ‘cliff’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Biden meets with U2 frontman Bono at White House

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks Nov. 13, 2012, in Des Moines, Iowa, during the investiture of Stephanie Rose, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. (Associated Press)

Holder, Mueller were mum on Petraeus for weeks

By Shaun Waterman and Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This July 22, 2012, file photo shows U.S. Gen. John Allen, top commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

Petraeus scandal widens in probe of Gen. John Allen’s emails

By Pete Yost and Robert Burns - Associated Press

**FILE** White House spokesman Jay Carney pauses Nov. 13, 2012, during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama to face Libya, Petraeus questions

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Illustration: Palestine

EDITORIAL: Obama’s second-term bowing begins

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times