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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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An Israeli border policemen guards the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv as Israelis line up for U.S. visas in this March 17, 2003, file photo. (AP Photo/Eitan Hess-Ashkenazi, File)

Obama warns Donald Trump against moving U.S. Embassy in Israel

President Obama said Wednesday he's cautioned President-elect Donald Trump and his team against moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, warning them that the action would have "enormous consequences" on Middle East tensions.

January 18, 2017
President Barack Obama arrives for his final presidential news conference, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama calls Bushes to wish speedy recovery

President Obama said he called the Bush family Wednesday to send prayers for the recovery of former President George H.W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush, both hospitalized in Houston.

January 18, 2017
In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Chelsea Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick. A military prison psychologist is refusing to recommend that Manning’s gender be officially changed to female on her Army employee-benefits file. Lawyers for the transgender solider imprisoned for leaking classified information made the assertion in a federal court filing Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, in Washington. (U.S. Army via AP, File)

Chelsea Manning’s sentence commuted by Obama

President Obama on Tuesday commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the transgender Army intelligence analyst convicted of leaking military secrets, issued a pardon for former Gen. James Cartwright and freed a Puerto Rican nationalist in a last-minute flurry of clemency grants that added to the president's record-breaking total.

January 17, 2017
President Barack Obama speaks during the final press briefing for White House press secretary Josh Earnest, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama to grant more commutations in final days

President Obama plans to grant clemency for many more federal convicts before he leaves office on Friday, but fugitive national-secrets leaker Edward Snowden isn't among them, the White House said.

January 17, 2017
President Obama said talk of a post-racial nation is naive, and "I think it created some problems down the road. African-Americans and other minority groups might have felt as if the problems that had built up over centuries could be addressed overnight." (Associated Press)

President Obama leaves legacy of wider racial rift

An undeniable part of President Obama's legacy is that Americans believe race relations have worsened during an eight-year period, with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, assassinations of police officers and several high-profile attempts by the nation's first black president to bridge the racial divide.

January 16, 2017
President Barack Obama waves to people in the community during a visit to the Jobs Have Priority Naylor Road Family Shelter in Washington, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Iran nuclear deal praised by Obama as Islamic republic keeps promises

The U.N.'s atomic agency said Monday that Iran has met a deadline for removing uranium-enriching centrifuges, as President Obama warned Americans — including President-elect Donald Trump — that unraveling the nuclear agreement would have "much worse" consequences.

January 16, 2017
President Barack Obama holds up a personalized Chicago Cubs baseball jersey presented to him by Anthony Rizzo, right, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, where the president honored the 2016 World Series Champion baseball team. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama jokes with Chicago Cubs GM about DNC job

Welcoming the world champion Chicago Cubs to the White House, President Obama joked Monday that the team's general manager should take on the beleaguered Democratic National Committee as his next reclamation project.

January 16, 2017