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Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Biden administration appeals mask mandate rejection after CDC says it must fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Canceled public transportation mask mandate prompts patchwork of rules across U.S.

By Tom Howell Jr. and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - Pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy, June 29, 2018. The Biden administration is restoring federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects such as highways and pipelines that were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track the projects. A rule finalized Tuesday, April 19, 2022, will restore key provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law designed to ensure community safeguards during environmental reviews for a wide range of federal projects and decisions, the White House said. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Biden finalizes rule restoring broad review of big projects

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Travelers line up wearing protective masks indoors at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Dec. 28, 2021. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Judge voids federal mask mandate for public transportation

By Kerry Picket, Alex Swoyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris cheers after blowing a whistle to start a race as she participates in activities on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, April 18, 2022, during the White House Easter Egg Roll. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House commits to barring anti-satellite missile tests

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

In this April 24, 2015, file photo, pumpjacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) **FILE**

Biden blasted from left and right for opening more federal land to oil, natural gas drilling

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Truckers block the entrance into the Santa Teresa Port of Entry in Ciudad Juarez going into New Mexico on April 12, 2022. The truckers blocked the port as a protest to the prolonged processing times implemented by Gov. Abbott which they say have increased from 2-3 hours up to 14 hours in the last few days. (Omar Ornelas /The El Paso Times via AP)

Texas repeals immigration order that caused border gridlock

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

In this file photo, Vanita Gupta is seated during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine her nomination to be Associate Attorney General, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Washington. On April 13, 2022, Ms. Gupta announced the Biden administration has settled lawsuits brought by Black Lives Matter and racial justice activists over protests near the White House in 2020, agreeing to implement new policies within 30 days for policing demonstrations. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Biden administration settles Black Lives Matter lawsuits in D.C., agrees to change policing policy

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

National Guardsmen stands watch over a fence near the International bridge where thousands of Haitian migrants have created a makeshift camp, on Sept. 18, 2021, in Del Rio, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas sends first bus of illegal immigrants to D.C., delivers border crisis to Biden’s doorstep

By Stephen Dinan and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP) ** FILE **

Mexican truckers shut down commercial traffic at key entry point to Texas

By Tom Howell Jr. and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian serviceman speaks, backdropped by a bullet riddled effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a media interview at a frontline position in the Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

White House, Republicans clash on U.S. endgame in Ukraine-Russia war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a meeting with Quad members, India, Japan, United States and Australia, in Melbourne, Feb. 11, 2022. India and Australia’s trade ministers say a shared security partnership with the United States and Japan has helped them strike a trade deal that Australia hopes will reduce its dependence on exports to China. (Darrian Traynor/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

AUKUS weapons technology sharing detailed

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Texas Governor Greg Abbott answers questions during a press conference at the Texas Department of Public Safety Weslaco Regional Office on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Abbott says the state will provide migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border bus charters to Washington, D.C. The move announced Wednesday amounts to a taunt at President Joe Biden and Congress over what the Republican governor calls a failure by the federal government to stop the flow of migrants coming to the southern border. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Texas will try to ship illegal immigrants to D.C., governor says

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This April 13, 2016, file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. The CIA says it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing's influence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

CIA general counsel nominee once did legal work for Chinese government-linked pharma firm

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on the U.S. role in preserving Taiwan against China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

A second chance for Biden’s Asia team

By Jim Fanell

FILE - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference, March 10, 2022, in Weslaco, Texas. Former Trump administration officials are pressing Abbott to declare an &quot;invasion&quot; along the U.S.-Mexico border as justification to give thousands of state troopers and National Guard members sweeping new powers to turn back migrants. Abbott says he will he announce Wednesday, April 6, 2022, &quot;unprecedented actions&quot; to deter migrants coming to Texas but did not elaborate. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP, File)

Ex-Trump officials urge Texas to declare border ‘invasion’

By Acacia Coronado and Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are being arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: ICE to scour U.S. communities looking for border absconders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-2 stealth bomber flying over the Pacific Ocean, before arriving at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in 2006. A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday Feb. 23, 2008 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The two pilots aboard the bomber ejected before the crash and are safe the U.S. Air Force said. A board of Air Force officers will investigate what happened. Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build. All 21 stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several of them through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force photo, Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)

Pentagon to scrap nuclear gravity bomb as part of Biden review

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian serviceman walks past the Antonov An-225 aircraft destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, at the Antonov airport in Hostomel, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.S. can do more to help Ukraine, rattle Putin, former Moscow CIA chief says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Nicaraguan migrants walk on the US-Mexico border, in Algodones, Baja California, Mexico, Dec. 2, 2021. The group walked into the U.S. and turned themselves over to the border patrol asking for asylum. The Biden administration has a draft plan to end sweeping asylum limits at the U.S.-Mexico border by May 23 that were put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to people familiar with the plans. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

Border braces for record chaos as Biden ends pandemic shutdown policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times