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In this file photo, reminders for clients at Life Time health club are visible throughout the facility as the club remains open even as Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has issued an executive order for all gyms to close due to the surge in coronavirus cases in Arizona Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Phoenix. The CEO of Life Time is calling for legislation that would allow businesses that were shuttered by government order and that have no received other financial aid from the government to apply for compensation for lost business. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

Life Time CEO wants government to subsidize 80% of its coronavirus-related losses

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Offerings sit in front of a mural of slain Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen painted on a wall in the south side of Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, July 11, 2020. A key House committee will examine whether Fort Hood is in a full-blown "crisis" of sexual harassment and retaliation following the recent death of Guillen. (AP Photo/LM Otero) **FILE**

Lawmakers call for military changes after soldier’s death

Associated Press

People gather at a make-shift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his &quot;I Have a Dream&quot; speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Lawmakers to hold moment of silence for late Rep. John Lewis

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden outlines priorities for next pandemic relief package

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Illustration on Health Savings Accounts by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Expand health savings accounts to boost economy

By Ted Pittenger

German governors sent a letter to Congress to convince President Trump to back down from his plan to withdraw almost 10,000 U.S. troops from their country. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

German politicians ask Congress to keep U.S. troops in their country

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, file photo, with the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File) **FILE**

New England colleagues react to death of US Rep. John Lewis

Associated Press

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., holds his face mask as he appears before members of the media following a House Judiciary Committee closed-door meeting with former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman on Capitol Hill, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

House Judiciary to scrutinize president’s pardon powers after Stone commutation: Chairman Nadler

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1965, file photo, Wilson Baker, left foreground, public safety director, warns of the dangers of night demonstrations at the start of a march in Selma, Ala. Second from right foreground, is John Lewis of the Student Non-Violent Committee. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/File)

Rep. John Lewis remembered for legacy of ‘good trouble’

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, file photo, with the Capitol Dome in the background, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File) **FILE**

John Lewis, lion of civil rights and Congress, dies at 80

By Calvin Woodward and Desiree Seals - Associated Press

In this June 12, 2019, file photo, Rep. Justin Amash, then a Michigan Republican, listens to debate on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mr. Amash is now calling on anti-Trump Republicans to leave the GOP to become members of the Libertarian Party. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

Justin Amash to retire from Congress

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Henry Montalvo, 30, is shown Wednesday, July 15, 2020, in Phoenix. Montalvo was furloughed in March and his federal unemployment benefit expires later this month. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Stress rises for unemployed as extra $600 benefit nears end

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and SARAH SKIDMORE SELL - Associated Press

Czech soldiers inspect cameras installed on a U.S. Boeing B-707 OC-135B Observation Aircraft at the military airbase in Pardubice, Czech Republic, Tuesday, July 31, 2007, where a 31-member team of U.S. experts began training for surveillance missions to check military facilities in the Czech Republic within the Treaty on Open Skies. (AP Photo/CTK, Alexandra Mlejnkova) ** FILE **

Air Force scraps updates to Open Skies Treaty aircraft following treaty withdrawal

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Rolling over funds: An easy way to make Pentagon more efficient

By Thomas W. Spoehr

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington's Lincoln Park depicts a freed slave kneeling at the feet of President Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, June 25, 2020. Calls are intensifying for the removal of the statue as the nation confronts racial injustice. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Black conservatives launch campaign to save statue of Lincoln, freed slave in Washington, D.C.

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump team eyes school funds boost in next virus aid bill

By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 20, 2017, file photo, novelist Colson Whitehead speaks to fans after discussing his Pulitzer prize-winning book &quot;The Underground Railroad&quot; at the English-language bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris. Already this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Orwell Prize for political fiction, Whitehead is now being honored by the Library Congress. On Monday, July 13, the library announced that he had won the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)

Library of Congress to honor author Colson Whitehead

Associated Press

In this June 30, 2020, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Trump team eyes school funds boost in next virus aid bill

By LISA MASCARO and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference, Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Nancy Pelosi: No regrets on Congress’ coronavirus response

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times