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Medicare Broken Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Americans want the broken Medicare system fixed

By Brian Darling

President Joe Biden exits Air Force One after landing at Roland R. Wright Air National Guard Base, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Salt Lake City. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

Biden will ask Congress for $13B to support Ukraine and $12B for disaster fund, an AP source says

By Lisa Mascaro and Colleen Long - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Windham High School in Windham, N.H., on Tuesday Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) **FILE**

Fake electors play starring role in Jan. 6 charges against Trump

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, speaks at an event with G7 leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to announce a Joint Declaration of Support for Ukraine during the NATO Summit, in Vilnius, Lithuania, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. (Paul Ellis/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Biden to seek an extra $25 billion for Ukraine and disaster relief

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Semi-automatic guns are displayed for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply, Jan. 16, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Biden sticking to his gun ban plans as the answer to America’s violent crime epidemic

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledges a lot of “weird and unexplainable” phenomena in the skies and different perspectives of witnesses. (Associated Press)

‘Weird and unexplainable’: America’s top general on UFOs, the Pentagon’s search for answers

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Tesla Supercharger is seen in Rolling Meadows, Ill., Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. The second-largest electric vehicle fast-charging network, Electrify America, with 800 direct-current fast-charging stations and more than 3,600 plugs nationwide, said Wednesday, July 26, 2023, it will work to add Tesla's connector to existing and future chargers by 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

EV mandates to phase out gas-powered cars collide with House Republicans

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Nine members of Congress wait to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Parkland, Fla. The group will tour the blood-stained and bullet-pocked halls, shortly before ballistics technicians reenact the massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead in 2018. The reenactment is part of a lawsuit filed by the victims' families against former Deputy Scot Peterson and the Broward Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Shots again fired at site of Parkland school massacre in reenactment after lawmakers visit

By Terry Spencer and Freida Frisaro - Associated Press

In this Nov. 2, 2017, photo, Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, speaks with reporters following a day of questions from the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

End DOJ’s spy games

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Cleanup of portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Friday night in East Palestine, Ohio, continues on Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

6 months after the East Palestine train derailment, Congress is deadlocked on new rules for safety

By Stephen Groves and Josh Funk - Associated Press

Illustration on infringing freedom of speech by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Individuals, not government, enjoy the freedom of speech

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Vice President Mike Pence officiates as a joint session of the House and Senate convenes to confirm the Electoral College votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Pence’s revenge: VP turns star witness against Trump in Jan. 6 case

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House, early Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump lawyer calls indictment an ‘attack on free speech and political advocacy.’ Follow live updates

Associated Press

Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner, passes through the security checkpoint as he arrives on Capitol Hill to give closed-door testimony to the House Oversight Committee in the Republican-led investigations into President Biden's son, in Washington, Monday, July 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hunter Biden sold ‘illusion of access’ to his father, former business partner tells Congress

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

This undated, colorized electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue/pink, cultured in a laboratory. The National Institutes of Health is opening a handful of studies to start testing possible treatments for long COVID, an anxiously awaited step in U.S. efforts against the mysterious condition. The announcement, Monday, July 31, 2023, comes amid frustration from patients who've struggled for months or years with sometimes disabling health problems. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)

Virus remains Biden focus as NIH launches long COVID trials

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. addresses the audience during the &quot;The Emergency Docket&quot; lecture Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in the McCartan Courtroom at the University of Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina/South Bend Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

Supreme Court allows ATF to regulate ghost guns — for now

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at a news conference as the House prepares to leave for its August recess at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, July 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Members of Congress break for August with no clear path to avoiding a shutdown this fall

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gestures while speaking at Georgetown University Law Center's third annual Dean's Lecture to the Graduation Class, in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Justice Alito says Congress can’t regulate Supreme Court, impose ethics reforms

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 27, 2019, file photo, "ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Biden wants Supreme Court to revive regulation on ghost guns

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about "News Tab" at the Paley Center, Oct. 25, 2019, in New York. A House committee called off a vote Thursday, July 27, 2023, on a recommendation that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg be held in contempt of Congress for failing to fully supply documents related to an investigation into supposed censorship by tech companies of conservatives. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Republican-led committee calls off vote to hold Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg in contempt

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