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National Conference party leader Farooq Abdullah, center, wearing black cap, is surrounded by journalists as party celebrate early leads in the election for a local government in Indian controlled Kashmir, Srinagar, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Biggest Kashmir party opposed to India’s stripping of region’s autonomy wins most seats in election

By Aijaz Hussain - Associated Press

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gun control illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Supreme Court to decide whether Americans can make their own guns

By Michael D. McCoy

An anti-abortion advocate along with abortion rights advocates hold up signs during the Emergency Pro-Life Rally for New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., July 19, 2022. (Meg Potter/The Las Cruces Sun News via AP, File)

Abortion supplants Obamacare in campaign; Trump unable to replace health law

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to the media in the White House press room, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden warns that disaster aid will go broke before election

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Dominick Gucciardo walks to his home in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Pensacola, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

As Helene victims wait, FEMA funds run dry from illegal immigrant aid

By Susan Ferrechio and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., pauses for a final question as he leaves a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. Congressional leaders have a deal on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months. The agreement announced Sunday averts a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushes final decisions until after the November election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Support grows for Congress to return to pass more disaster funding

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., is seen in this Aug. 23, 2021 file photograph discussing an infrastructure bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Harris faces Democrat Heather R. Mizeur and two third-party candidates in his reelection race for Maryland's 1st Congressional District seat on Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Andy Harris takes reins of Freedom Caucus, brings appropriator chops to Congress’ spending fights

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris talks with John Modlin, the chief patrol agent for the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol, right, and Blaine Bennett, the U.S. Border Patrol Douglas Station border patrol agent in charge, as she visits the U.S. border with Mexico in Douglas, Ariz., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Harris, with pledge of border policy makeover, rewrites history, turns back on left-wing allies

By Jeff Mordock and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks to reporters about his panel's Afghanistan Report and the findings of its three-year investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. He is joined by Republican lawmakers and the families of the military members who were killed by a Taliban bomber during the evacuation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans move to hold Blinken in contempt over Afghanistan testimony

By Farnoush Amiri and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Controlling artificial intelligence (AI) with government regulation illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Congress urged to preempt state AI regulations

By James Erwin

A waiter delivers food to patrons at a restaurant, Jan. 21, 2022, in Miami Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)

‘No tax on tips’ is a political winner, but it could face a tough path to reality

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Stop spending money we don’t have

A group of young people with mobile phones on the street. (File photo credit: carballo via Shutterstock)

House panel approves child online safety bills, but floor vote is not guaranteed

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at Harry Reid International Airport to board a plane after a campaign trip, Saturday, Sept.14, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress divided over funding boost for Secret Service after assassination attempts on Trump

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building headquarters is seen in Washington on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

FBI official leading Trump assassination probe accused of anti-Trump bias

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) **FILE**

Schumer says Congress will provide more money to Secret Service if necessary

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Argentina's President Javier Milei sings the national anthem as he addresses Congress to present the 2025 budget in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s President Milei presents 2025 budget, vowing austerity and setting up a showdown

Associated Press

Former Peru's President Alberto Fujimori waves at his home in Santiago after leaving the academy for the training of corrections officers in Santiago, Chile, May 18, 2006. (AP Photo/Claudio Santana, File)

Alberto Fujimori, a former president of Peru who was convicted of human rights abuses, dies at 86

By Franklin Briceño - Associated Press

Why are the Democrats afraid of a little competition in higher education?

By U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar and Jon Schweppe

Air Force funding the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) plan illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Air Force must commit to Next Generation Air Dominance plan

By Clay Percle