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.... Obama is honoring 13 law enforcement officers who risked their lives to protect others. Obama will present the Medal of Valor at a ceremony in the East Room on Monday. The medals recognize.....

Obama kicked off the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles on Saturday, welcoming thousands of intellectually disabled athletes. "To all of our athletes, I just want you to know that all those people won't just be cheering for you, they're going to be learning from you," the first lady told the cheering crowd during the opening ceremony. "You're filling us with so much hope. And you're uniting us in a way that nothing else can."

he major focus of the White House on Monday is its Working Families Summit, and President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, first lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden all are part of the program at the Omni Shoreham Hotel here.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I find it astonishing that he goes around making speeches in which he deplores the state of the economy, the growing income inequality, chronic unemployment, staggering middle class income, and it's as if he has been a bystander, as if he's been out of the country for the last five years. It's his economy; he's the president. He's talking as if this is the Bush economy, I don't know, the Eisenhower economy, and he just arrived in a boat and he discovers how bad the economy is. This is a result of the policies he instituted. He gave...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini said on Sunday the Islamic Republic may do away with popular elections for the presidency, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported Monday. "Presently, the country's ruling political system is a presidential one in which the president is directly elected by the people, making this a good and effective method," Khameini said on state television. "However, if one day, probably in the distant future, it is deemed that the parliamentary system is more appropriate for the election of officials (holding) executive power, there would be no problem in altering the current structure," Khamenei explained. Khameini's...

The administration in Washington is trying to force on Israel a peace settlement with the Palestinians. It is almost a year now that a certain ritual has marked the public discourse between Washington and Jerusalem. Israel gets a good slap in the face and a few days later someone in Washington announces that the U.S.-Israeli relationship is rock-solid. The Israeli prime minister is demeaned in Washington and a day later he declares that the U.S.-Israeli relationship is firm as ever. Anybody who has been involved in fostering the U.S.-Israeli relationship over the years, so important to both countries, knows that...

An 18-year-old woman accused of pretending to be twin 12-year-old boys and simultaneously dating two adolescent girls will undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine her competency to stand trial in San Mateo County Superior Court. Lakesia Michelle Mason pleaded not guilty in March to 13 counts of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 14 for her alleged relationships with a 13-year-old girl and an 11-year-old girl. She denied the special allegations of substantial sexual conduct with a child under the age of 14 and allegations that the offenses were committed in more than one jurisdiction and that...

February 21 No Use Pretending For we all stumble in many things. James 3:2 We commonly make two mistakes with respect to life in Christ. Either we ourselves underestimate the value of what is truly good about it, or we misrepresent that goodness to others, portraying the Christian's life as something other than what it is. The great gifts available in Jesus Christ -- the forgiveness of sins and the hope of heaven -- are of incalculable worth. It took the death of the Son of God to make these gifts possible, and we err greatly if we ever undervalue...

More Tarmac Sports We have reported several times on John Kerry's odd obsession with conveying the impression that he is a sportsman. Among other things, whenever he finds himself on a runway at an airport he breaks out a football or baseball for an "impromptu" game of catch. Hardly a day goes by without the release of photos of Kerry playing tarmac sports for an audience of photographers and reporters. Remember Kerry's famous errant first pitch at Fenway, which he blamed on a nervous Guardsman? I guess Vanessa must have been nervous too. Here she is, chasing her father's wild...