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  • This undated image released Thursday, May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defence, shows Lee Rigby known as "Riggers" to his friends, who is identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London on Wednesday. He was a drummer with the 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers." (AP Photo/MOD)

    The Wrap: From Code Pink halting Obama's speech to the Vatican's denied exorcism, the week that was

    President Obama's foreign policy speech was stopped multiple times by Code Pink heckling, and Lois Lerner was suspended from the her position at the IRS. On the international stage, two men in the United Kingdom murdered a soldier in the streets of London. Here's a recap, or wrap, of the week that was from The Washington Times.

  • President Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day, May 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes

    President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.

  • President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour." (Associated Press)

    HARPER: Both sides at fault in government-media standoff

    President Obama, who vowed to have a transparent presidency in dealing with the media, seems to have gone to war with journalists and government officials who leak information to reporters.

  • Illustration Windmills Killing Eagles by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: Windmills of death

    There's a killer on the loose. Known for murdering in cold blood with a sharp blade, the government has nevertheless turned a blind eye to the killer's trail of death and destruction.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ** FILE ** Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota at the State Department in Washington Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

    Letter highlights need for public diplomacy champion at State Department

    A group of influential retired diplomats urged the Obama administration to move carefully in filling a key State Department post focused on growing interactive programs with the citizens of America's allies and adversaries around the world.

  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters as he leaves the weekly Democratic Caucus Lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 14, 2013. (Associated Press)

    Reid: Immigration comes before Perez nomination

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he won't start to pick any big fights with Republicans because he's afraid of upsetting the momentum to pass an immigration bill — and that includes delaying President Obama's Labor Department nominee.

  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    FIELDS: Barack Obama as the Great Gatsby

    Washington is a one-industry town. The nation's capital has wonderful art museums, concerts and theaters, but they're only supplements to the big story playing out on the front pages - always the government.

  • Senate OKs judge for D.C. circuit on 97-0 vote

    Senators voted 97-0 Thursday to confirm Srikanth Srinivasan to a judgeship on the vitally important U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia after Republicans relented and allowed the vote to go forward this week.

  • Sri Srinivasan is the first D.C. Circuit nominee confirmed since 2006. (Image: U.S. Justice Department)

    Senate confirms first Obama nominee for appeals court in D.C.

    The Senate on Thursday finally confirmed President Obama's first judicial nominee to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

  • Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who will lead the nation's incoming government, addresses political-party workers in Lahore, Pakistan, on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

    Pakistan had arrested American who was killed by drone

    An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

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    TYRRELL: The beauty of confusion in officialdom

    Where are we now in this morass of Obama administration scandals? We have The Associated Press imbroglio. We have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the Internal Revenue Service imbroglio.

  • Penny S. Pritzker (Screen shot of http://www.penny-pritzker.com/penny-pritzker-biography.html)

    EDITORIAL: Another crony for the Cabinet

    President Obama's choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous rock and a hard place.

  • Illustration: Homegrown jihad by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: Homegrown jihad

    George W. Bush employed an anti-terrorism strategy of taking the fight to the enemy abroad "so we do not have to face them here at home." Barack Obama has replaced that with welcoming the enemy to our shores and bestowing on him American citizenship.

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  • President Barack Obama stressed the point this week, saying: "So let me be clear: Seafood from the Gulf today is safe to eat, but we need to make sure that it stays that way."

    Expect to pay more at the plate for shrimp →

  • President Obama said the nation will continue to fight the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for "as long as it takes."

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