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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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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a bilateral meeting at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama turns over Israel’s two-state challenge to successor

Having failed to make progress during the past eight years with Israel toward a two-state solution, President Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he's turning over the challenge to the next president as he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a new U.S. military aid package.

September 21, 2016
President Barack Obama, joined by Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, speaks to media during a bilateral meeting with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on the margins of 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama defends move to welcome more refugees to U.S.

Hitting back at critics of his plan to accept more refugees in the U.S., President Obama said Tuesday that foreigners fleeing war zones are victims, not threats to national security.

September 20, 2016
President Barack Obama addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. The president warned that the forces of globalization have exposed "deep fault lines" across the globe, calling for a "course correction" to ensure that nations and their peoples don't retreat into a more sharply divided world. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama slams Putin, Trump’s wall in final U.N. speech

In his final address to the United Nations, President Obama took swipes at Russian President Vladimir Putin and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for embracing authoritarianism and seeking to reverse international cooperation.

September 20, 2016
President Obama is joined by Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Ambassador Samantha Power at the United Nations in New York. (Associated Press)

Obama to push refugee settlement at U.N.

President Obama will renew his appeal for world leaders to accept more refugees in his final appearance at the United Nations on Tuesday, even as a series of suspected Islamist terrorist attacks in the U.S. raised fresh questions about the administration's plan for welcoming immigrants from Syria.

September 19, 2016
President Barack Obama speaks about the bombings in New Jersey and Manhattan and the stabbing attack in Minnesota, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama speaks to cops who killed, captured terror suspects

President Obama spoke by phone late Monday with New Jersey police officers wounded in a gun battle with a terrorism suspect, and with the off-duty Minnesota officer who shot and killed another suspected terrorist.

September 19, 2016
Donald Trump advocates "extreme vetting" of immigrants from predominantly Muslim nations to weed out potential terrorists, coupled with aggressive coalition military operations in the Middle East. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump vows to ramp up aggression in ISIS fight, ‘bomb the s—-‘ out of extremists

The Islamic State, belittled by President Obama just two years ago as a "JV" terrorist group, will dominate the attention of newly elected President Hillary Clinton or President Donald Trump as they face the challenge of taking on the extremists abroad and while preventing another Orlando-style attack that could shake public confidence in the next administration just as it's leaving the starting gate.

September 15, 2016
FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a Defense Department, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. A federal appeals court expressed concerns on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, about the prospect of ordering the Obama administration to release graphic videos of a former Guantanamo Bay inmate being force-fed during a hunger strike. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

White House issues veto threat over Guantanamo bill

The White House issued a veto threat Tuesday over a House bill that would prohibit the use of federal funds to transfer any terrorism detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba to the mainland U.S. or another country.

September 13, 2016
China's paramilitary police patrol as containers are loaded on to a cargo ship for export at a port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province on Sept. 8, 2016. China's exports rose in August for the first time in two years, while the contraction in imports narrowed in a positive sign for global economic growth. (Chinatopix via AP)

U.S. challenges China grain subsidies at WTO

The Obama administration filed a challenge against China Tuesday at the World Trade Organization, accusing Beijing of breaking trade rules on its price supports for domestic production of rice, wheat and corn.

September 13, 2016