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Dave Boyer

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 [email protected].

Articles by Dave Boyer

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 1, 2016, following his briefing on the ongoing response to the Zika virus with members of his public health team. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama urges lawmakers to agree on Zika funding

President Obama called on Congress Friday to break a partisan deadlock over funding to fight the Zika virus before lawmakers start their summer break later this month. Published July 1, 2016

President Barack Obama signs the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 30, 2016. Obama also signed the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama signs reform of FOIA law

President Obama signed into law Thursday an update of the federal Freedom of Information Act that proponents say will streamline and improve the 50-year-old law. Published June 30, 2016

President Barack Obama closes the cover after signing the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 as he looks to sign the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, Thursday, June 30, 2016, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama signs Puerto Rico debt relief law

President Obama signed a rescue package for financially strapped Puerto Rico Thursday, saying it will give residents of the island relief from "lingering uncertainty." Published June 30, 2016

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch takes questions from the media, after attending a Los Angeles Police Department technology briefing as part of her national community policing tour in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 29, 2016. Lynch was in Los Angeles for the last stop in a six-city community policing tour highlighting departments she sees as role models for law enforcement. Lynch says one of the issues law enforcement is struggling with is transparency, saying it's important departments are as open as possible without compromising investigations. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

White House won't comment on propriety of Lynch-Clinton meeting

The White House refused to say Thursday whether it approved of Attorney General Loretta Lynch's private meeting with former president Bill Clinton at an airport, but insisted that she understands the need for the Justice Department's probe of Hillary Clinton's email system to be free of political meddling. Published June 30, 2016

Barack Obama Foundation chairman Martin Nesbitt speaks during a news conference announcing the future of the Barack Obama Presidential Center Tuesday, May 12, 2015, in Chicago. The Barack Obama Foundation announced in a news release early Tuesday that the library will be erected on park land that was proposed by the University of Chicago. The site was selected over bids made by Columbia University in New York, the University of Hawaii and the University of Illinois at Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Firms chosen to design Obama's presidential library

The foundation that is building President Obama's presidential library announced the selection Thursday of two architectural and design firms to lead the project in Chicago. Published June 30, 2016

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Neito, speaks during their trilateral news conference for the North America Leaders' Summit at the National Gallery of Canada, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama takes shot at Trump as a phony populist

In a international summit dominated by the prospect of Donald Trump's presidency, President Obama criticized the presumptive Republican nominee as a phony populist and told Mexicans and Canadians that Mr. Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric doesn't represent the views of most Americans. Published June 29, 2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, center, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and U.S. President Barack Obama take part in the North American Leaders' Summit at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 29, 2016. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Obama: Mexicans make U.S. stronger

With Donald Trump's rhetoric about Mexican rapists and border walls obviously on their minds, President Obama and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto made a public show of friendship and respect Wednesday. Published June 29, 2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stands onstage as he listens to his son Donald Trump, Jr., speak during a rally at Ohio University Eastern Campus in St. Clairsville, Ohio, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

White House defends free-trade deal against Trump criticism

The White House hit back Wednesday at Donald Trump's criticism of President Obama's free-trade deal with Pacific Rim nations, saying the pact is an upgrade of the much-maligned North American Free Trade Agreement of the Clinton era. Published June 29, 2016

Vice President Joe Biden addressing the White House Summit on the United State of Women in Washington in this June 14, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Joe Biden urges speedier cancer research at 'moonshot' summit

Vice President Joseph R. Biden called for "a decade's worth of progress in five years" in cancer research Wednesday at his "moonshot" summit at Howard University in Washington, saying the effort is about much more than his late son, Beau. Published June 29, 2016

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2016. Earnest discussed the House Benghazi Committee report and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House condemns terrorist bombing at Istanbul airport

The White House Tuesday night condemned the terrorist attack that killed about 50 and injured dozens at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey, saying the airport "is a symbol of international connections and the ties that bind us together." Published June 28, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. smiles during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama dismisses Ryan's call for post-Brexit U.K. trade deal

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan called on the Obama administration Tuesday to prioritize a new trade agreement with Britain, but the White House dismissed the suggestion, saying President Obama warned British voters there would be consequences for their decision to leave the European Union. Published June 28, 2016

White House ridicules House GOP effort to question Obama on Benghazi

The White House blasted a special House committee Monday for trying to interview President Obama about his actions on the night of the Benghazi attack, saying there's photographic proof that the president was working on the crisis at the White House. Published June 27, 2016