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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during the House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jim Jordan shakes up race for speaker’s gavel, gives House GOP another hard choice

By Susan Ferrechio, Kerry Picket and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin waits to greet Japanese Defense Minster Minoru Kihara during an welcoming ceremony, upon his arrival at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress to press Pentagon on Chinese logistics threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden tries to reassure allies of continued U.S. support after Congress drops Ukraine aid request

By Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

TikTok blocks Beijing critics, State Department report says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Senators focusing on AI risk to 2024 elections as top priority for new legislation

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration announced nearly $60 million in grants to help schools and day care centers remove lead from drinking water during an event in Boston on Monday, July 24. Warren said the grant money will help create "lasting, resilient water systems." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Supreme Court grapples with constitutionality of Elizabeth Warren’s consumer watchdog agency

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen prepare to fire at Russian positions from a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on July 14, 2022. When U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday, Sept. 30, that averted a widely expected government shutdown, the measure didn’t include the $6 billion in military assistance that Ukraine said it urgently needed. Now the Pentagon, White House and European allies are urging Congress to quickly reconsider. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

White House warns what lapse in Ukraine aid would give Russia openings

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

In this photo provided to the Associated Press, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, poses for a photo with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of N.Y., at a closed-door meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo)

Ukraine aid is dropped from government funding bill. That raises questions about future U.S. support

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden calls out House for close call on shutdown, says time to help Ukraine is running out

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., holds a news conference just after the House approved a 45-day funding bill to keep federal agencies open, but the measure must first go to the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress dodged a federal shutdown, but more spending fights and House infighting are in the offing

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

This photo from Tuesday June 23, 2020, shows Democratic candidate Jamaal Bowman as he speaks during his primary-night party in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File) ** FILE **

Democratic lawmaker suspected of pulling fire alarm to delay vote on McCarthy’s ‘clean’ stopgap bill

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Disqualify Trump from running for president Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democrats’ lawless game to remove Trump from 2024 ballot

By Mike Davis

This June 6, 2013 file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The latest study of the the bipartisan Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board takes the opposite view of a different set of National Security Agency surveillance programs revealed last year by former NSA systems administrator Edward Snowden. The board which was to vote on the report on Wednesday, July 2, 2014, found that the NSA's collection of Internet data within the United States passes constitutional muster and employs &quot;reasonable&quot; safeguards designed to protect the rights of Americans. Last January, the first time the board dissected an NSA surveillance program, it found fundamental flaws. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Civil liberties board backs U.S. snooping program, but demands big changes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Capitol is seen in Washington, Sept. 20, 2021. The federal government is heading toward a shutdown that will disrupt many services, squeeze workers and roil politics. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Federal shutdown promises a slower IRS, longer lines at airports, paid time off for bureaucrats

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, right, and other GOP members, talks to reporters just after voting to advance appropriations bills on the House floor, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday night, Sept. 26, 2023. McCarthy is digging in on his refusal to take up Senate legislation designed to keep the federal government fully running beyond midnight Saturday, Sept. 30. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

McCarthy left with few options as Congress races toward government shutdown

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Wednesday that the Senate made "some progress" in recent days toward completing the appropriations process. The Senate did not hold an anticipated vote on a stopgap spending resolution. (Associated Press)

Senators scrutinizing AI tools for posing new threat of misinformation in 2024 elections

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Illustration on U.S. HIV aid to the world through the PEPFAR program by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

AIDS relief plan is a testament to American leadership on the world stage

By Nancy Brinker

Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., speaks with reporters hours after former President Donald Trump rescinded his endorsement of Brooks in Alabama's Republican primary for Senate, dealing a major blow to the congressman's campaign, March 23, 2022 in Hueytown, Ala. The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has requested for three more House Republicans to come in and testify. The requests to Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks and Ronny Jackson come weeks after investigators revealed new evidence of their involvement in former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. (AP Photo/Kimberly Chandler, File)

Jan. 6 panel wants answers from GOP’s Brooks, Biggs, Jackson

By Farnoush Amiri and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

The Republican presidential hopefuls await the main event on Wednesday — the second presidential candidate debate, staged at the Ronald Reagan Presidential LIbrary in Simi Valley, Calif. (Image courtesy of Fox News)

California under scrutiny as GOP candidates gather for debate

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Bongs for sale are shown on display Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in a glass case at Mary Mart, a marijuana store in Tacoma, Wash., as armed security guard Austin MacMath stands watch outside. A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops in Washington state is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Marijuana is banking that protection gains momentum in Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times