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FILE - This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. A fight is raging in courts and Congress over where radioactive materials should be stored and how to safely get the dangerous remnants of decades of bomb-making and power generation to a permanent resting place. (AP Photo/File)

Has tech made it safer to move nukes? Depends whom you ask

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Latest: Pence heads to Mideast as Turkey attacks Kurds

Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., at a news conference as House Democrats move ahead in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE***

Impeachment calls may cause gridlock on deals in House

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Division among House conservatives has hobbled the passage of a critical Pentagon policy bill. (Associated Press/File)

Syria, impeachment push put defense funding agenda in Congress at risk

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Impeachment may have leapfrogged to the top of the national agenda, but members of Congress still have their day jobs as legislators _ and they’re returning to work this coming week with mixed hopes of success. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Impeachment dominates, but much other work awaits Congress

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, listens to a question during a campaign stop in Londonderry, N.H. While Gabbard is campaigning for her party's presidential nomination, she faces a strong primary challenge back home for her congressional seat from Democratic state Sen. Kai Kahele. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Running for president, Gabbard faces challenge in Hawaii

By AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

This April 22, 2005, file photo, shows logos for MasterCard and Visa credit cards at the entrance of a New York coffee shop. On Dec. 10, 2020, both Visa and Mastercard announced they will no longer process transactions for Pornhub. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Facebook’s Libra currency battered by defections, pushback

By BARBARYA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence applauds President Donald Trump after Pence introduced him during a campaign rally Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Analysis: Impeachment fight tests Constitution’s limits

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump towards members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, before boarding Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Minneapolis, for a campaign rally. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Appeals court rules House can subpoena Trump financial records

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this March 2, 2019 file photo a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall that separates Nogales, Mexico from Nogales, Ariz. A U.S. Border Patrol agent has died after being found unresponsive while on patrol near the Arizona border, but authorities say there's no evidence of foul play. The agency's Tucson sector says in a Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, statement that agents on Sunday found 44-year-old Robert Hotten unresponsive near Mount Washington south of Patagonia in southeastern Arizona. He was patrolling alone, which is customary. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel,File)

Minority lawmakers say Trump takes their Pentagon money to build border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2018, file photo, then-Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gowdy swore he’d had enough of Washington. Disgusted by what he’d seen, the former South Carolina congressman retired from office last year, declaring his skills are better used &quot;in a courtroom than in Congress.&quot; Now he’s coming back for impeachment. A former prosecutor who led the House investigation into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, Gowdy is poised to join President Donald Trump’s legal team. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Can’t quit Washington? Gowdy returns as Trump defender

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

House Republican Conference chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., flanked by Rep. Doug Collins, R-Georgia, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, left, and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, D-Calif., criticizes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Democrats for launching a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: If Congress wants U.S. troops in Syria, it must vote

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as they arrive together for a family photo at a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The White House says Turkey will soon invade Northern Syria, casting uncertainty on the fate of the Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S. against in a campaign against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

The presidency, war powers and the Constitution

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Excerpts from recent Wisconsin editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. Attorney General William Barr wants Facebook to give law enforcement a way to read encrypted messages sent by users, re-igniting tensions between tech companies and law enforcement. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Facebook CEO to appear before Congress on currency plan

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listens during a talk about lowering the cost of prescription drug prices Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

House pushes for release of Mueller grand jury testimony

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Robert Mueller secret grand jury testimony sought by House Democrats

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 photo, David Schaecter, president of the Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA (HSF), gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Aventura, Fla. Aging Holocaust survivors are trying to recover insurance benefits that were never honored by Nazi-era companies, which could be worth billions of dollars. The companies have demanded original paperwork, such as death certificates, that were not available after World War II. The survivors want to take insurance companies to court in the U.S. to recover the money, but it would take an act of Congress to allow it. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Aging Holocaust survivors try to sue over Nazi-era insurance

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 10, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump is joined by Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, second from right, as he arrives at Melsbroek Air Base, in Brussels, Belgium. Sondland, wrapped up in a congressional impeachment inquiry, was a late convert to Trump, initially supporting another candidate in the Republican primary and once refusing to participate in a fundraiser on his behalf. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Gordon D. Sondland blocked from testifying by White House

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 20, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in two of the term’s most closely watched cases over whether federal civil rights law protects LGBT people from job discrimination. The cases Tuesday, Oct. 8, are the court’s first on LGBT rights since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement and replacement by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Divided Supreme Court weighs LGBT people’s rights

By MARK SHERMAN and MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press