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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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In this April 17, 2015, file photo, with the Olympic Mountains in the background, a small boat crosses in front of the Transocean Polar Pioneer, a semi-submersible drilling unit that Royal Dutch Shell leases from Transocean Ltd., as it arrives in Port Angeles, Wash., aboard a transport ship after traveling across the Pacific before its eventual Arctic destination. The U.S. government on Monday gave Shell the final permit it needs to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska's northwest coast for the first time in more than two decades. (Daniella Beccaria/seattlepi.com via AP, File)

Obama freezes drilling in Arctic until 2017

Citing "low industry interest," the Interior Department announced a freeze Friday on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska until at least 2017.

October 16, 2015
Allison Hickey, under secretary for benefits, Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, testifies to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing to review the Veterans Benefits Administrations progress in ending its disability compensation claims backlog by 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Allison Hickey, top VA official, steps down

A top official at the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs resigned Friday after taking much of the criticism for the agency's management failures and facing a congressional hearing next week over misusing a taxpayer-funded employee relocation program.

October 16, 2015
President Barack Obama gives remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Center, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Las Vegas. The President used the speech to announce a set of executive actions and private sector commitments to accelerate America’s transition to cleaner sources of energy and ways to cut energy waste. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama chides anti-immigrant views

President Obama poked fun at anti-immigration sentiment Thursday with a Hispanic audience, saying the U.S. "would be a really empty country" if his opponents had their way.

October 15, 2015
Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a White House Champions of Change Law Enforcement and Youth meeting in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on Sept. 21, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Joe Biden ducks questions about 2016 presidential race

Vice President Joseph R. Biden ducked reporters' questions about whether he'll enter the 2016 presidential race Thursday, two days after Hillary Rodham Clinton and four other Democratic hopefuls held their first debate.

October 15, 2015
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016

Reversing a pledge to end the war in Afghanistan, President Obama said Thursday he will keep 5,500 U.S. troops deployed there beyond the end of his presidency in 2017 to fight a rising extremist insurgency.

October 15, 2015
"How is it possible to work together?" Russian President Vladimir Putin asked at an investment forum in Moscow. "I think some of our partners simply have mush for brains. They do not have a clear understanding of what really happens in [Syria] and what goals they are seeking to achieve." (Associated Press)

Obama rejects Putin’s offer to send emissaries to U.S. to confer on Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked the Obama administration's rejection of high-level talks to coordinate military action in war-torn Syria, amid reports that Cuba may join Iran in coming to the aid of embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, Moscow's top ally in the region.

October 14, 2015
Democratic presidential candidates from left, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage before the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats in debate propose trillions in new spending

The five Democratic presidential candidates pushed proposals in the first debate Tuesday night that would cost trillions in new spending, from free college tuition to single-payer health care.

October 14, 2015
A Syrian soldier wrapped in a Syrian flag stands in a damaged house in Achan, Syria. Russian jets intensified their airstrikes Monday in the central Syrian province as government and allied troops pushed out insurgents from local villages to expand their control of the area, activists and a military statement said. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

European diplomats tell Russia to stop bombing Syria

Europe's foreign ministers called on Russia Monday to stop bombing U.S.-backed opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as the collapse of President Obama's plan to fight extremists in Syria raised more questions about America's faltering influence in the Middle East.

October 12, 2015
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama: Trans-Pacific Partnership will cut taxes for U.S. businesses

Obama administration officials promised the fine print of its massive free-trade agreement with other Pacific-Rim nations will be made public within 30 days, as they released a report Thursday showing the deal will cut taxes on more than 18,000 products exported from the U.S.

October 8, 2015