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  • ** FILE ** President Obama answers questions during a conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (Associated Press)

    White House defends high bills for Africa trip

    President Obama is under fire for the price of the first family's upcoming weeklong trip to Africa, which could cost taxpayers as much as $100 million at a time of federal budget cuts and furloughs.

  • ** FILE ** President Barack Obama listens as former President George W. Bush speaks during the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, Thursday, April 25, 2013, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, Pool)

    PRUDEN: Would the government lie to you?

    Trust us. Would your government — and the private contractors your government hires to do the work — do anything bad? Snooping into the intimate details of the lives of everyone is not nice. Besides, it could be worse, and that's all the proof anyone needs to see that it's not really bad at all.

  • According to the likely 2016 presidential matchups in a Public Policy Polling survey released Wednesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton leads among Democrats with 63 percent of the votes, well ahead of Vice President Joseph R. Biden at 13 percent and a couple of other Democrats in single digits.

    State Department: No cover-up for diplomats

    The State Department on Monday staunchly rejected a news report that claimed high-ranking department officials had quashed several internal investigations into allegations of sexual assault, drug dealing, prostitution solicitation and other criminal activity by American diplomatic personnel overseas in recent years.

  • **FILE** During the execution of a search warrant, members of the joint federal hazmat team, FBI and local law enforcement gather in front of the Osmun Apartments in Spokane, Wash., on May 18, 2013. The search warrant is in connection with ricin-laced letters intercepted at a Post Office facility in Spokane earlier in the week. (Associated Press/TheSpokesman-Review)

    Obama received ricin-tainted letter

    The Secret Service on Thursday said a suspicious letter mailed to President Obama was similar to letters suspected of being laced with the deadly poison ricin sent last week to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his gun control group.

  • Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, announced Thursday that her publication had "parted company" with media critic Howard Kurtz after his false assertion about basketball player Jason Collins.

    Inside the Beltway: Mucho mucho

    "The Obama administration spent between $2.52 million and $2.77 million for hotel rooms and rental cars during the president's 2012 trip to Mexico for a G-20 summit," proclaims Britain's Daily Mail. "Government travel documents available online show that the State Department contracted with a travel agency to spend between $1,889,383 and $2,078,327 on hotel rooms alone, for the President, the Secret Service, and the rest of the State Department and White House staff and VIPs."

  • ** FILE ** Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police officers train new recruits in safe driving techniques on a wet and rainy day in the RFK Stadium Parking lot, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    D.C. police: Heightened security in effect after Boston blasts

    D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said heightened security plans initiated after a pair of blasts near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon will remain in place until officials are "comfortable" there is no threat against the District.

  • President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 15, 2013, following the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Obama on Boston explosions: Those responsible will 'feel full weight of justice'

    President Obama denounced the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday and vowed to find out who is responsible and bring them to justice.

  • ** FILE ** Vice President Joe Biden gives a thumbs-up before President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in front of a joint session of Congress Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

    Landlord Joe Biden pocketed $26,400 in 2012 renting cottage to the Secret Service

    Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, took in $26,400 in 2012 by renting a cottage on the property of their Delaware home to the Secret Service, tax records released by the White House revealed.

  • **FILE** The White House is seen June 28, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Pennsylvania man charged in White House bomb threat

    D.C. police have arrested a Pennsylvania man after he threatened to blow up a truck bomb near the White House on Wednesday morning, The Associated Press reported.

  • **FILE** President Obama watches the ball after making a putt on the ninth green during his golf match at the Mid-Pacific County Club in Kailua, Hawaii, on Dec. 31, 2009. (Associated Press)

    EDITORIAL: The 5 percent solution

    It's not as melodramatic or drastic as going on a hunger strike or chaining himself to the White House fence, but President Obama's "sequestering" 5 percent of his $400,000 salary — or $20,000 — during the period of fiscal restraint is a nice gesture.

  • President Obama speaks during his meeting with the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board at the White House with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett seated behind him. The corruption trial of ousted Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich - for purportedly trying to sell Mr. Obama's Senate seat - is a distant but unwelcome headache for the White House.

    Jarrett: 'Insulting' to call White House a boys' club

    White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett on Wednesday disputed the notion that the President Obama operates a tight-knit boys' club of top advisers and aides and bemoaned the hardball politics of Washington, D.C., saying Chicago politics are "child's play" in comparison.

  • President Barack Obama waves to the crowd as he watches the first half of the East Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament between Syracuse and Marquette, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)

    CURL: The Obamas live the 1 percent life

    Being president of the U.S., the most powerful man in the world, is often most about perception. But something remarkable has happened with these occupants of the White House: Neither President Obama nor first lady Michelle appear to give a damn about perception.

  • Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

    KESSLER: Reeling in a reckless Secret Service

    Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan's retirement last month is an opportunity to require Senate confirmation of any successor.

  • **FILE** President Obama (left) walks past a Secret Service agent after welcoming the NCAA college football BCS National Champion University of Alabama Crimson Tide to the South Lawn of the White House to honor their 14th championship on April 19, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Secret Service gets first woman director

    President Obama on Tuesday appointed the first woman ever to head the Secret Service, an agency still struggling to recover from a high-profile sex scandal.

  • **FILE** Former President Bill Clinton (left) listens to former President George W. Bush speak on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

    That's rich: Taxpayers pay $3.7M so former presidents can maintain lifestyles

    It's good to be president. The nation's four former presidents get an annual pension of about $200,000, a stipend to hire staff at around $96,000, and other taxpayer-funded benefits that foot the bill for everything from travel to postage — for life.

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