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This image provided by U.S. Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Service shows the website for HealthCare.gov. (U.S. Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Service via AP) ** FILE **

HHS: 500K signups in special Obamacare period; GOP pushing for more affordable options

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Chinese attendants dressed in winter costumes rehearse the award ceremony of the men's 500-meters race during a test event for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has started 10 days of testing for several sport events in five different indoor venues from April 1-10, becoming the first city to hold both the Winter and Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China warns Washington not to boycott Winter Olympics

Associated Press

President Joe Biden and his son Hunter depart after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Hunter Biden laptop confession confirms intelligence community bias, conservatives say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 13, 2017, file photo, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington. Yellen on Monday, April 5, 2021, urged the adoption of a minimum global corporate income tax, an effort to offset any disadvantages that might arise from the Biden administration’s proposed increase in the U.S. corporate tax rate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Yellen calls for minimum global corporate income tax

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

China is targeting regional U.S. allies in Asia with an escalating number of military flights around Taiwan and massing more than 200 fishing ships near a disputed reef. (Associated Press)

China tests Biden resolve with pressure on Japan, Taiwan, Philippines

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this June 15, 2020, file photo, the Voice of America building stands in Washington. Former President Donald Trump’s hand-picked chief of U.S. international broadcasting has quit amid a burgeoning staff revolt and growing calls for his resignation. Michael Pack resigned as the chief executive office of the U.S. Agency for Global Media just minutes after President Joe Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The agency runs the Voice of America and sister networks. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

VOA record-keeping mandate brings fresh tensions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Young minors lie inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. The minors are housed by the hundreds in eight pods that are about 3,200 square feet in size. Many of the pods had more than 500 children in them. The Biden administration on Tuesday for the first time allowed journalists inside its main detention facility at the border for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 kids and families were crammed into pods and the youngest kept in a large play pen with mats on the floor for sleeping.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills,Pool)

EXPLAINER: Questions remain about conditions of migrant kids

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

China’s Communist rulers wrest the torch of global leadership from America illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

China’s rulers have a new and unimproved version of rules-based order

By Clifford D. May

In this Sept. 10, 2020, file photo, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Austin Police Association in Austin, Texas. Paxton had an extramarital affair with a woman whom he later recommended for a job with the wealthy donor now at the center of criminal allegations against him, according to two people who said Paxton told them about the relationship. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Texas asks Supreme Court to revive Trump’s immigrant self-sufficiency policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Deterring Chinese Aggression Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Defending American national interests by deterring the People’s Republic of China

By James E. Fanell

In this Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, then-acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, center, arrives to join President Donald Trump at Andrews Air Force Base in Md. In December, U.S. officials discovered that federal agencies had fallen victim to a cyberespionage effort pulled off largely through a hack of SolarWinds software. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AP sources: SolarWinds hack got emails of top DHS officials

By Alan Suderman - Associated Press

Migrants are seen in a green area outside of a soft-sided detention center after they were taken into custody while trying to sneak into the U.S., Friday, March 19, 2021, in Donna, Texas. A surge of migrants on the Southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive. The head of Homeland Security acknowledged the severity of the problem Tuesday but insisted it's under control and said he won't revive a Trump-era practice of immediately expelling teens and children. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Ted Cruz: Adviser blocks camera to hide Donna, Texas CBP facility overcrowding

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a briefing at the White House, Friday, March 26, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

WH spokeswoman Jen Psaki: The border is closed, despite immigration surge

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sunday, April 10, 2011 picture shows a rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, off the cost of Louisiana. Thirteen states sued the Biden administration Wednesday, March 24, 2021 to end a suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water and to reschedule canceled sales of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska waters and western states. The Republican-leaning states, led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, seek a court order ending the moratorium imposed after Democratic President Joe Biden signed executive orders on climate change on Jan. 27. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

In shift, oil industry group backs federal price on carbon

By MATTHEW DALY and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Iranian refineries are fueling defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. China has sent a lifeline to Tehran by tripling its purchases of oil from the nation since President Biden took office. (Associated Press)

China flouts Iran sanctions on oil as Trump-era pressure campaign crumbles

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This Aug. 29, 2017, file photo provided by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

EXPLAINER: What N Korean missile tests mean for US relations

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

In this March 1, 2021, photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Alejandro Mayorkas asks Americans to ignore thousands of migrants crossing the border

By Cal Thomas

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during a ceremony to break ground for building 10,000 homes, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) ** FILE **

North Korea launches two more missiles in latest provocation aimed at Biden administration

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sunday, April 10, 2011 picture shows a rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, off the cost of Louisiana. Thirteen states sued the Biden administration Wednesday, March 24, 2021 to end a suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water and to reschedule canceled sales of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska waters and western states. The Republican-leaning states, led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, seek a court order ending the moratorium imposed after Democratic President Joe Biden signed executive orders on climate change on Jan. 27. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

States sue to undo Biden pause on US oil & gas lease sales

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, a Los Angeles Unified School District student attends an online class at the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Hollywood in Los Angeles. A new federal survey finds that nearly half of the nation's elementary schools were open for full-time, in-person instruction last month, but the share of students learning in-person has varied greatly by region and race. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

School survey shows ‘critical gaps’ for in-person learning

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press