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A rig and supply vessel are pictured in the Gulf of Mexico off the cost of Louisiana, April 10, 2011. A federal judge has ordered the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres. The Thursday, Sept. 22, 2023, ruling rejected a scaled-back plan announced last month by the Biden administration as part of an effort to protect an endangered whale species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Judge blocks government plan to scale back Gulf oil lease sale to protect whale species

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

Migrants who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol agents, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Migrants have always come to the U.S., but the immigration system now seems strained nationwide more than ever. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

As mayors, governors scramble to care for more migrants, a look at what’s behind the numbers

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden administration grants temporary legal status to Afghans who recently arrived in U.S.

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee member J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a hearing on improving rail safety in response to the East Palestine, Ohio train rerailment, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House and Senate Republicans tell Biden administration they oppose funding Ukraine war effort

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Migrants walks along a rail line hoping to board a freight train heading north, in Huehuetoca, Mexico, Sept. 19, 2023. Ferromex, Mexico's largest railroad company announced that it was suspending operations of its cargo trains due to the massive number of migrants that are illegally hitching a ride on its trains moving north towards the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Senators seek to secure border and end Biden’s arson of America

By Lora Ries

Biden's over-regulation of mining minerals Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s minerals road map to nowhere

By Rich Nolan

The Natanz uranium enrichment facility buildings, south of Tehran, Iran, is seen in this March 30, 2005, file photo. A new underground facility at the Natanz enrichment site may put centrifuges beyond the range of a massive so-called “bunker buster” bomb earlier developed by the U.S. military, according to experts and satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press in May 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran blocks nuclear inspectors after U.S. unfreezes billions of dollars for Tehran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Government of Primorsky Krai Region, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un waves as he boards his train prior to leaving Artyom, near Vladivostok, Russian Far East on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. (Government of Primorsky Krai Region via AP)

Biden administration praises N. Korean defectors, human rights activists

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Biden and offshore wind farms Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The Biden administration’s offshore wind junk heap

By Robert Henneke

Illustration on Bidenomics and recession by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Why U.S. is staring down the barrel of another recession

By E.J. Antoni

The Lavender pit mine, where a copper operation stopped in 1974, sits outside Bisbee, Ariz., on May 12, 2019. National conservation groups, tribes and others in Nevada are up in arms over a pro-mining bill Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., introduced this week. It would insulate mining companies from a U.S. appeals court ruling that blocked a copper mine in Arizona and is now part of a legal battle over a big lithium mine near the Nevada-Oregon line. Allies on most other conservation issues, environmentalists are accusing Cortez Masto of becoming a puppet for the mining industry. (AP Photo/Anita Snow, File)

Biden plan would overhaul 151-year-old mining law, make companies pay royalties for copper and gold

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Illustration on border security and illegal immigration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Luck is not an effective border control policy

By Tom Homan and Matt O’Brien

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. climb a fence with barbed wire and concertina wire, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Report: DHS eyes ordering illegal immigrants to stay in Texas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Huge mining trucks costing $1.1 million each are set to begin moving ore containing lithium to a processing plant at a controversial mine in northern Nevada. (Photo by Bill Gertz/The Washington Times)

A new era: Construction of strategic lithium processing plant kicks off

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by NASA, a SpaceX spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi, NASA astronaut Warren (Woody) Hoburg and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., Monday, Sept. 4, 203, after a six-month stay at the International Space Station. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

Trying to protect sensitive technology, SpaceX gets sued instead

By Hans von Spakovsky and Cully Stimson

Illustration on excessive regulation on small businesses by Linas Garsys/ The Washington Times

Small businesses struggle to keep up with Washington regulatory edicts

By Gene Marks

Employee Lisa Bell dumps out a shovel full of mud as business owners and employees start cleaning up at the storm-damaged business The Marina, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023, one day after the passage of Hurricane Idalia. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Biden wants an extra $4 billion for disaster relief, bringing total request to $16 billion

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

GOP accuses Attorney General Merrick Garland of stonewalling as courts struggle with migrant surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

People cheer during a political rally for President Joe Biden at the Philadelphia Convention Center in Philadelphia on Saturday, June 17, 2023. Biden struck an economic populist message during the first rally of his reelection campaign. The president told an exuberant crowd of union members in Philadelphia that his policies had created jobs and lifted the middle class. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Unions are showing a strike-laden resurgence under Biden, but some believe it won’t last

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

An International Electric MV Series truck is seen on display in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. The Biden administration will propose new automobile pollution limits this week that would require at least 54% of new vehicles sold in the U.S. to be electric by 2030, ramping up quickly to as high as 67% by 2032. That's according to three people briefed on the plan. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Biden gives automakers $15 billion for EV transition amid tension with union workers

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times