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Apple CEO Tim Cook watches a demonstration of an app on the new educational Apple iPad during an Apple event at Lane Technical College Prep High School, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Watchdog: FBI could have tried harder to hack iPhone

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., speaks at the podium where he is joined by students and parents from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland., Fla., Friday, March 23, 2018, during a news conference about gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, ahead of the Saturday March For Our Lives. With Rep. Deutch are Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Mark Kelly, and Gabby Giffords. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The budget and national insecurity

By Cal Thomas

Judge: Land trust use to fund Arizona schools is illegal

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Honoring States' Rights on Marijuana Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why Congress must reject Jeff Sessions’ anti-medical marijuana request

By Daniel J. Mitchell

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, a supporter of open carry gun laws, wears a pistol as he prepares for a rally in support of open carry gun laws at the Capitol, in Austin, Texas. Texas is still sorting out where firearms are allowed, and where they're not, more than a year after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a suite of laws that vastly expanded gun rights. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Fox News poll: Protecting against gun violence trumps gun rights, majority of voters says

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The 2,232-page spending bill is already proving to be a dividing line as lawmakers approach the November midterm elections. (Associated Press/File)

Spending bill draws lines among midterm election candidates

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Trump said during a March 23 press conference at the White House to announce his signing of a $1.3 trillion omnibus bill, "I say to Congress, 'I will never sign another bill like this again.'" (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s ‘never again’ spending bill promise hard to keep

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Pro-gun demonstrators protest during the March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in Washington, on Saturday on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol. Some 800,000 people came to the anticipated rally. (Associated Press)

Fox News poll: U.S. voters support gun control

By Alex Swoyer and Julia Airey - The Washington Times

Data: Record number of women in Iowa seek office in 2018

By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2018, about the $1.3 trillion spending bill. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dealmaker Trump couldn’t drain the swamp on massive spending bill

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks during her interview with CNN in the White House Press Brady Press Briefing Room, Friday, March 23, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Ryan urged Trump to sign bill after veto threat

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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2018 file photo, Johnny Perez suns himself in springlike temperatures along Lake Michigan in Chicago. Congressional leaders are rejecting President Donald Trump's effort to kill or sharply cut funding of programs to protect and restore some of the nation's prized waters, such as the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast File)

Spending bill rejects Trump effort to gut water cleanups

By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press

Nature lovers to weigh in on public land fee, group hunts

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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2017 file photo, a fire engine passes flames as a wildfire burns along Santa Ana Road near Ventura, Calif. A spending bill slated for a vote in Congress includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years. The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies end a practice of raiding non-fire-related accounts to pay for wildfire costs that approached $3 billion last year.(AP Photo/Noah Berge, Filer)

Budget deal includes wildfire disaster fund to end borrowing

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, speaks with House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., right, behind closed doors following a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring the Office of Strategic Services in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The Latest: Senate approves $1.3 trillion spending bill

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Ex-President Bill Clinton to attend Rep. Slaughter’s funeral

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Senate Appropriations ranking member Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., left, confers with Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., just before a news conference where Senate Democrats criticized President Donald Trump's tax cuts and insist on putting government funds toward a $1 trillion infrastructure package, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 7, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Vermont only state to never send woman to Congress

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In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, during a meeting with members of Congress to discuss school and community safety. With the president from left, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas,, the president, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Not two weeks ago, Trump scolded a Republican senator for being “afraid of the NRA” and declared that he would stand up to the powerful gun lobby and finally get results on quelling gun violence. Now Trump is striking a very different tone as he backpedals from his earlier demands for sweeping reforms. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Gun control’s snaky sneak into omnibus

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2018 file photo, Johnny Perez suns himself in springlike temperatures along Lake Michigan in Chicago. Congressional leaders are rejecting President Donald Trump's effort to kill or sharply cut funding of programs to protect and restore some of the nation's prized waters, such as the Great Lakes and Chesapeake Bay. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast File)

Correction: Budget Battle-Water Cleanups story

By JOHN FLESHER - Associated Press