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FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2021 file photo, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a virtual roundtable with participants from Black Chambers of Commerce across the country to discuss the American Rescue Plan in Washington. Yellen and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell say more needs to be done to limit the damage from the coronavirus pandemic and promote a full economic recovery. The two officials struck upbeat notes on the future of the economy in their prepared testimony Tuesday, March 23, before the House Financial Services Committee while cautioning that the economy still needs help. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Yellen, Powell say more needed to limit US economic damage

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

House Homeland Security Committee member U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Tex., questions witnesses (unseen) on the effects of a Aug. 7, 2019 ICE raid in Mississippi which resulted in nearly 700 workers being arrested at seven chicken processing plants, during a field hearing at Tougaloo College, in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Democrats raise red flags over Joe Biden COVID-19 relief package

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2018, file photo, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, waits with North Korea's nominal head of state, Kim Yong Nam, for the start of a women's hockey game at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. After giving the Biden administration the silent treatment for two months, North Korea this week marshalled two of the most powerful women in its leadership to warn Washington over combined military exercises with South Korea and the diplomatic consequences of its “hostile” policies toward Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

White House: North Korea conducted short-range missile test

By AAMER MADHANI and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 3, 2021 file photo, youths who cull through trash for items to resell ride on the back of a garbage truck entering the Pavia landfill on the outskirts of Barquisimeto, Venezuela. A U.S. senator urged the Biden administration Tuesday, March 23, 2021, to lift a ban on diesel fuel swaps with Venezuela, adding to pressure from some Democrats and aid workers who argue sanctions are worsening the South American country's dire humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Democrat adds pressure on Biden to review Venezuela sanction

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Dr. Rachel Levine, nominated to be an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, holds her face mask as she testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Biden ignores Levine’s nursing home scandal, touts transgender qualifications

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, March 22, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jen Psaki: Biden’s border crisis battle waged with ‘investment’ in radio ads, animated shows

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Mexican immigration agents stop people who crossed the Suchiate River, the natural border between Guatemala and Mexico, to see their identification documents near Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Monday, March 22, 2021. Agents are forcing those with permission to enter Mexico for work or a visit to use the official border crossing bridge, and those who do not are being returned to Guatemala, as they enforce new limits on all but essential travel at its shared border with Guatemala. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Biden administration deploys top officials to Mexico, Guatemala amid border surge

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Students in teacher Christopher Duggan's science class clean their work areas at the end of class at Windsor Locks High School in Windsor Locks, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Bill de Blasio, Democrats buck teachers unions after CDC school social distancing decision

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Texas Gov Greg Abbott speaks during a news conferenced about migrant children detentions Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Texas governor orders probe of drinking water at Biden’s camps for migrant children

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 14, 2021, file photo, migrant children and teenagers are processed after entering the site of a temporary holding facility south of Midland, Texas. Migration flows to the U.S. from Mexico are surging for the third time in seven years under Republican and Democratic presidents — and for similar reasons. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP, File)

‘Very angry’: Democrats face tough choices on immigration

By WILL WEISSERT - Associated Press

FIEL - In this March 18, 2021, file photo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from right, joined by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, right, speaks while facing Chinese Communist Party foreign affairs chief Yang Jiechi, second from left, and China's State Councilor Wang Yi, left, at the opening session of U.S.-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska. China said Friday, March 19, 2021, a strong smell of gunpowder and drama resulted from talks with top American diplomats in Alaska, continuing the contentious tone of the first face-to-face meetings under the Biden administration. (Frederic J. Brown/Pool Photo via AP, File)

China uses Black Lives Matter to embarrass Biden Administration

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Travelers walk through the Salt Lake City International Airport Wednesday, March 17, 2021, in Salt Lake City. Airlines and others in the travel industry are throwing their support behind vaccine passports to boost pandemic-depressed travel, and authorities in Europe could embrace the idea quickly enough for the peak summer vacation season. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

EXPLAINER: Will you need a ‘vaccine passport’ to travel?

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press

In this March 3, 2021, file photo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on foreign policy at the State Department in Washington. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

U.S., China in Alaska meeting exchange charges of global coercion

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A Syrian displaced woman with her daughter sit outside their tent, as they enjoying the sunny weather at a refugee camp, in Bar Elias, in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa valley, Friday, March 5, 2021. Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, after Syrians rose up against President Bashar Assad amid a wave of Arab Spring uprisings. Nearly ten years later, millions of displaced Syrians unlikely to return in the foreseeable future, even as they face deteriorating living conditions abroad. The Syrian conflict has resulted in the largest displacement crisis since World War II. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US won’t recognize Syria presidency vote unless UN involved

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Department of Homeland Security officers wait for the arrival of migrant children and teenagers from the southern border of the United States at the site of a temporary holding facility that opened Sunday, March 14, 2021 south of Midland, Texas. (Eli Hartman/Odessa American via AP)

Emergency sites for migrant children raising safety concerns

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

EXPLAINER: NKorea’s anger to US may actually be an overture

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

This Feb 23, 2019, file photo shows the inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. Ransomware attacks targeting state and local governments have been on the rise, with cyber criminals seeking quick money by seizing data and holding it hostage until they get paid. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Bipartisan lawmakers push Biden’s Cabinet for answers on fallout from SolarWinds hack

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden blocks press access at border, constructs false narratives

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

FILE - This Jan. 24, 2019, file photo shows a Comcast truck in Pittsburgh. Comcast Corp. reports financial results Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Why taxing Comcast (and its employees) is bad for small business

By Gene Marks

Illustration on China and Biden's planned green policies by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

To achieve climate goals, Biden needs long-term plan for threat of China

By Michael McKenna