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Illustration on Dr. Fauci's culpability with COVID-19 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Dr. Fauci’s deadly lie of omission

By Peter Navarro

President Joe Biden from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington on Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden’s $50,000-per-year journalist tax credit estimated to cost taxpayers $1.6B

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. U.S. Capitol Police officers who were attacked and beaten during the Capitol riot filed a lawsuit Thursday, Aug. 26, against former President Donald Trump, his allies and members of far-right extremist groups, accusing them of intentionally sending insurrectionists to disrupt the congressional certification of the election in January. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) **FILE**

Capitol rioter who bragged she wouldn’t go to jail because she is White gets prison term

By Jacques Billeaud and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House early Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 in Washington from a European trip. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Democrats point fingers while Biden credits Trump for party’s election setbacks

By Dave Boyer, Tom Howell Jr. and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, speaks at committee hearing on the role of fossil fuel companies in climate change, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

The new ERA is even worse than the original

By Thomas Jipping

FILE - In this Thursday, July 21, 2011 file photo, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announces that NFL owners have agreed to a tentative agreement that would end the lockout, pending player approval in College Park, Ga. The process of building the NFL schedule used to be a painstaking one with executives like Val Pinchbeck spending months slotting the games one by one on his board until there was a final product for the commissioner to approve. Making late tweaks or looking at alternative options with a big game moving from early to late in the season weren't really possible for all the pieces of the complicated jigsaw puzzle to fit.(AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Congress intervention into NFL, Washington investigation not unheard of

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

McAuliffe Campaign Shattered Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

McAuliffe doesn’t live in the same world as voters do

By David Keene - The Washington Times

U.S. President Joe Biden poses for a selfie with medical personnel and other world leaders during a group photo at the La Nuvola conference center for the G20 summit in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Back in Europe, Biden tries to show allies U.S. is with them

By Josh Boak and Zeke Miller and Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

2022 Election Ballot Gauge Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

What Democrats’ House retirements mean for 2022 election

By David N. Bossie

President Joe Biden watches as a carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Kareem M. Nikoui, 20, of Norco, Calif., during a casualty return Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Nikoui died in an attack at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, along with 12 other U.S. service members. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Wars like Vietnam, Afghanistan bound to fail without congressional sign-off

By Michael McKenna

In this June 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Work matters, despite what congressional Democrats think

By Leslie Ford - The Washington Times

In this file photo from Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018, Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, talks about the approaching midterm election during an interview with The Associated Press, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House votes to hold Trump ally Steve Bannon in contempt

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., center, accompanied by then-Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 16, 2018, after the Senate passed a resolution to reverse the FCC decision to end net neutrality. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Two more veteran House Democrats announce retirements

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., walks to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Democrats’ spending bills cut ICE and border wall, pump money into environment and abortion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Government must budget like rest of us

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In this June 25, 2018, file photo, pro-life and anti-abortion advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Republican lawmakers in at least a half dozen GOP-controlled states already are talking about copying a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law was written in a way that was intended to avoid running afoul of federal law by allowing enforcement by private citizens, not government officials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pro-life, pro-choice groups go head-to-head to turn out voters in 2022

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

This Sept. 3, 2021, photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Former state AGs urges amendment to fix Supreme Court at nine justices

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the National Congress of American Indians' 78th Annual Convention, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Kamala Harris decries nation’s ‘shameful past’ to promote Biden’s social welfare package

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

In this March 23, 2016, photo, the U.S. Constitution is held by a member of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

The Lame Mule Act is today’s Flat Earth Society

By Robert Charrow

FILE - In this April 28, 2015 file photo, Nick Clegg, then leader of Britain's Liberal Democrat party, speaks at a press conference in London. Speaking at the Atlantic Festival in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs, said the company has exempted politicians from its fact checking program for more than a year. But if politicians share previously debunked links or other material, those will be demoted and banned from being included in ads.. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Facebook’s Nick Clegg on improving platform: ‘There are certain things only lawmakers can do’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times