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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during her weekly media availability on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 27, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: House clears Senate version of border aid bill

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., holds a news conference ahead of the Fourth of July break, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Senate fails to limit Trump war powers amid Iran tensions

By LISA MASCARO and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Protesters gather to demand the defunding of government agencies for border protection and customs enforcement, Tuesday, June 25, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Dems to propose changes to Senate border bill

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A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Alphabet Inc., Google's holding company, reports financial results Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) ** FILE **

Google, YouTube anti-conservative bias raises alarm about 2020 election meddling

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Treading on the Constitution Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Trump, health care transparency is moot because government has no say in health care

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Documents show NSA again improperly collected call records

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani described the White House as "afflicted by mental retardation" on Tuesday. Mr. Rouhani and President Trump have been exchanging escalating rhetorical jabs at one another. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) **FILE**

Iran war fight snags Senate debate over massive defense bill

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., the first Native American woman elected to Congress, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 3, 2019. House Democrats are rounding the first 100 days of their new majority taking stock of their accomplishments, noting the stumbles and marking their place as a frontline of resistance to President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House members seek to strip Medals of Honor from 20 Wounded Knee Massacre soldiers

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 20, 2019, file frame from video shows the entrance of a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has told a Texas congresswoman Monday, June 24, that the agency is quickly removing children from the patrol station following reports that children locked inside were in a perilous situation. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

Border official resigns amid uproar over migrant children

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 24, 2019 photo, then-special counsel Robert Mueller walks past the White House, after attending St. John's Episcopal Church for morning services, in Washington. Mueller will testify publicly before House panels on July 17 after being subpoenaed. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Democrats hope Mueller testimony will have ‘profound impact’

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Lawmakers seek to revoke Wounded Knee medals for US soldiers

By KALI ROBINSON - Associated Press

In this June 6, 2019, photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) **FILE**

Joe Biden: Congress should immediately make ‘Dreamers’ citizens

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

A member of the National Guard takes part in an operation in search of undocumented migrants in a forest near Arriaga, Mexico, Monday, June 24, 2019. Mexican authorities are reinforcing efforts to deter Central Americans and others from crossing the country to reach the United States, detaining migrants in the south and stationing National Guardsmen along the Rio Grande in the north. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)

The Latest: White House threatens to veto border bill

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Packing the Supreme Court Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Packing the Supreme Court: Why changing the rules of the game is a recipe for chaos

By Martin B. Gold

In this May 22, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at the Capitol in Washington. Sanders is set to give a major speech to rebut accusations by President Donald Trump and others that he is too liberal to win in a general election. During Wednesday's speech, which Sanders previewed in an interview with The Associated Press, he will define democratic socialism, the philosophy that has guided his political career. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Bernie Sanders: Mass deportations are Trump’s ‘political strategy to divide the American people’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Signs supporting D.C. statehood are on display outside an early voting place on in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

D.C. right-to-vote activists: Supreme Court precedent changing rulings could sway courts

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters before joining congressional leaders at a closed-door security briefing on the rising tensions with Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi, Democrats agree to some Trump border funding

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 7, 2019, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito testifies before House Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.With one sentence on June 20, 2019, Alito signaled his willingness to throw out the Supreme Court's 84-year-old record of support for the broad powers of federal agencies that reaches back to the New Deal. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Alito suggests chance to rein in federal agency power

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, Calif., Friday April 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struggles with ‘ambiguous’ law on border wall emergency

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

High court says sex offender law didn’t violate Constitution

Associated Press