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FILE - In this Aug. 6, 2013, file photo. President Barack Obama laughs as the crowd sings him "Happy Birthday" at the start of his speech about housing at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix. The man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is more than just another famous face, or the face behind the governmentÃ?s troubled health care website. Five new things about the president include, singing in the bathroom, cooking, a broken nose, a world traveler and a daughter with a peanut allergy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

5 new things about Obama

Associated Press · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is the featured speaker at a national conference in Washington on courts that stress treatment over punishment for law-breaking vets. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Veterans Affairs chief touting veteran courts at DC conference

Associated Press · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

$A vote to ban hydraulic fracturing in the Denver suburb of Broomfield is getting a recount after the measure failed by just 13 votes. Broomfield was one of four Front Range towns considering limits or band on the drilling procedure some fear may not be safe. The stateâs powerful oil and gas industry far outspent the activists and predicted victory in Broomfield. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt)$ Energy and Environment

Broomfield, Colo., begins fracking recount amid criticism

Washington Examiner · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Israel’s former leader slams Benjamin Netanyahu over US

National Security

Israel’s former leader slams Benjamin Netanyahu over US

Associated Press · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is refusing to sign an agreement governing the future of the American troop presence in his country. (AP File)

Feinstein blasts Karzai over refusal to sign deal

Washington Examiner · December 1, 2013 2:00 pm

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is urging Hoosiers to help the environment and the economy by buying Indiana-grown Christmas trees this year instead of artificial ones. (AP File)

Energy and Environment

Indiana environmentalists to holiday tree buyers: Go green

Washington Examiner · December 1, 2013 5:00 am

FILE -- In this Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant is seen just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. A report by Iran's official news agency quotes the country's nuclear chief, Ali Akbar Salehi, saying the Islamic Republic needs more nuclear power plants, just after it struck a deal regarding its contested nuclear program with world powers. Salehi said Iran is in serious talks with several countries including Russia to build four more nuclear power plants. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

National Security

Iranian official: Country needs more nuclear power plants

Washington Examiner · December 1, 2013 5:00 am

Democrats may be making a resurgence in Texas, which has undergone dramatic demographic shifts in recent years. (Photo: Thinkstock)

GOP rules Texas, but they’re worried

Associated Press · November 30, 2013 5:00 am

First lady Michelle Obama, right, with daughters Sasha, second from left, and Malia, partially hidden, walk outside to receive the Official White House Christmas Tree at the White House? in Washington, Friday, Nov. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sasha could decide Obama’s post-White House home

Associated Press · November 30, 2013 3:29 am

President Obama speaks during a Democratic Party fundraiser in San Francisco on Monday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Democrats start to distance themselves from Obama

Associated Press · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

People putting food in a donation box

Food stamp cut boosts visitors to Ind. food banks

Washington Examiner · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

Virginia Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe, left, listens as outgoing Gov. Bob McDonnell addresses the media after their private lunch at the Executive Mansion in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)

Bob McDonnell ending term with scandal-stained year

Eric Turner · November 29, 2013 5:00 am