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  • **FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the U.S. Department of Justice. (Associated Press)

    Eric Holder signed off on DOJ affidavit for Fox reporter: report

    Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. approved a search warrant identifying a Fox News reporter as a potential co-conspirator in an espionage case, NBC News reported.

  • Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said he is still torn on what to do with some of the enemy combatants in the war on terrorism captured overseas the U.S. holds. His father, Ron Paul, advocates closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. (Associated Press)

    PAUL: Blocking the pathway to a national ID

    The immigration-reform bill that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee this week is expected to be considered by the Senate in June.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    KUHNER: An enormous abuse of IRS power

    Did President Obama know about his administration's enemies list? If he did - and it looks like he may have - then his presidency is in deep trouble.

  • ** FILE ** This Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009, file photo shows Syrian President Bashar Assad, seen, during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, unseen, at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

    Russia: Syria's agreed to peace conference 'in principle'

    Russian ministers said Friday that Syria has agreed to join a Russia-U.S. peace conference and talk about the besieged government's future — but the agreement was laced with conditions.

  • Remembering Memorial Day's true purpose

    In the 1860s, the U.S. government declared Decoration Day as a day of remembrance to honor those who had died in our nation's service during the Civil War. Memorial Day was officially proclaimed in May 1868, and after World War I the holiday was changed from honoring the Civil War dead to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war.

  • President Obama reacts as his speech is interrupted by CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin as he talked about national security on May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Experts contradict Obama on Islamic terror threat

    Terrorism analysts are rebutting President Obama's assertion that the "scale of the threat" from Islamic terrorists has reverted to pre-Sept. 11, 2001, levels.

  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    LAMBRO: Dodging job talk

    Five months into his improvisational second term, a sluggish economy and severe jobless rate seem to have vanished from President Obama's agenda.

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    WOLF: Tyranny in our time

    Americans are beginning to recognize the disturbing similarities between President Obama and the fallen Richard Nixon, but the comparison that may matter more is between Mr. Obama and King George III.

  • Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaking to the media outside 10 Downing St. in London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The British government's emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

    British P.M. David Cameron demands that MI5 explain 'what went wrong' in Woolwich attack

    British Prime Minister David Cameron is demanding intelligence and security heads explain how two Islamist terror suspects could massacre a soldier in the streets when the two had been surveillance targets of MI5 for the past eight years.

  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    HANSON: When paranoia becomes prescience

    Government is now so huge, powerful and callous that citizens risk becoming proverbial serfs without the freedoms guaranteed by the Founding Fathers.

  • Leaning to hear a reporter's question, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, talks Feb. 26, 2013, about the looming automatic spending cuts following a Democratic strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: Reid's court-packing scheme

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn't like the direction the federal judiciary is heading, so he has come up with a variant of court-packing to achieve his results.

  • Extremist ideology before national welfare

    We are now seeing a dysfunctional government defending itself from one scandal after another. Tragically, in the process of defending itself, we see deception, stonewalling and outright lies perpetrated by government officials. Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the Internal Revenue Service fiasco and the raid of Associated Press records are only, I suspect, the tips of a large iceberg.

  • **FILE** Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents take a suspect into custody on March 30, 2012, as part of a nationwide immigration sweep in Chula Vista, Calif. (Associated Press)

    GOP lawmakers want Obama to hear out head of ICE union

    The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a top Republican senator on Thursday told President Obama that he and his aides must meet with immigration law enforcement "whistleblowers" who can expose the flaws in the Senate immigration bill.

  • A Sunni gunman fires his machine gun during clashes that erupted between pro- and anti-Syrian regime gunmen, in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday, May. 23, 2013. Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo)

    5 dead in Lebanon clash of Assad foes, backers

    Opponents and supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad traded heavy machine gun fire and mortar shells in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, leaving five people dead in what was described as some of the heaviest fighting there in years, officials said Thursday.

  • ** FILE ** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 13, 2013, following a closed-door meeting with President Obama and House Republicans to discuss the budget. (Associated Press)

    John Boehner: 'Really is inconceivable' Obama wouldn't have known about IRS woes

    House Speaker John A. Boehner says it "really is inconceivable" that President Obama wouldn't have known about the unfolding IRS scandal before learning about it from reporters, as the White House has claimed.

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