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Carley Wentworth, right, of Bolan, and Bo Miller, of Kensett, ride horses in rural Worth County on Monday, July 6, 2015. A large plume of smoke from wildfires in Canada has drifted into North Iowa causing a dense haze across the area. Air quality advisories have been issued. (Arian Schuessler/Globe-Gazette via AP) **FILE**

House Dems plot inroads to rural America: ‘If they don’t know you, they don’t trust you’

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks to the media about her suspend accounts on Twitter, during a news conference, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Watchdog asks for ethics probe after Republicans threaten retaliation over Jan. 6 records requests

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden's competency by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The case to invoke the 25th Amendment against Biden

By Rick Green

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. McCarthy and other Republican members of Congress criticized President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the close of the war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans demand plan to bring home Americans left behind in Afghanistan

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2021, file photo, housing advocates protest on the eviction moratorium in New York. The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. Roughly 3.5 million people in the United States said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to Census Bureau data from early August. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman, File)

Eviction ban’s end will allow pandemic lockouts to resume

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Supreme Court blocks Biden’s evictions moratorium

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This driver's license photo from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA), provided to AP by the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office, shows Ashli Babbitt. Babbitt was fatally shot by an employee of the Capitol Police inside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, while the rioters were moving toward the House chamber. (Maryland MVA/Courtesy of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office via AP) ** FILE **

Capitol Police lieutenant says he fatally shot Ashli Babbitt during Jan. 6 riot

By Emily Zantow and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force personnel guide evacuees from Afghanistan aboard a C-17 Globemaster III after a layover stop at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, on Aug. 17, 2021. (Senior Airman Samuel Earick/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Moulton, Meijer slammed for visit to Kabul airport but GOPers sympathize with their ‘frustration’

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

Republicans set to win back Congress

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol is seen, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

On infrastructure: Be careful what you wish for

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 16, 2021 file photo U.S. soldiers stand guard along the perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of Western nationals and Afghan workers have been flown to safety since the Taliban reasserted control over the country. Yet still unprotected, and in hiding, are untold numbers of Afghans who tried to build a fledgling democracy. They include Afghans who worked with foreign forces, and who are now stranded and being hunted by the Taliban, along with aid workers.(AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File)

Pentagon seeks to shift $400 million for Afghan refugee evacuations

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Central American asylum-seekers arrive at El Ceibo, Guatemala, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, after being deported by air from the U.S. to Mexico and then shipped into Guatemala by land. The Central American migrants were expelled by the U.S. after being denied a chance to seek asylum under a pandemic-related ban. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy) **FILE**

Judge blocks Biden’s attempt to limit deportations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Metropolitan Police Department cruiser blocks a street near the U.S. Capitol and a Library of Congress building in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021, as law enforcement officials investigate a report of a pickup truck containing an explosive device. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Man who claimed to have bomb near Capitol surrenders

By Tom Howell Jr. and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Taliban officials arrange a Taliban flag, before a press conference by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, at the Government Media Information Center, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Mujahid vowed Tuesday that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

On eve of Kabul’s fall to Taliban, U.S. watchdog predicted ‘bleak’ future with al Qaeda on the rise

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

China's Climate Strategy is Cooking the Planet Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Appeasing China is the wrong way to fight climate change

By John Hart and Benji Backer

Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Kristen Clarke, right, accompanied by Attorney General Merrick Garland, left, speaks at a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, to announce that the Department of Justice is opening an investigation into the city of Phoenix and the Phoenix Police Department. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

‘Matter of great urgency’: DOJ calls for restoration of Voting Rights Act

By Emily Zantow and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul takes part in a remote interview on NBC's "Today" show with Savannah Guthrie from her office at the state Capitol Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Hochul’s conservative lean likely to entice challengers from the left

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Democrats Chances in 2022 Election Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Democrats are going to get a shellacking in 2022

By David N. Bossie

Women offer flowers to a soldier in a show of opposition to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after a military convoy passed Planalto presidential palace and parked outside the Navy headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. The convoy paraded by the palace on Tuesday, the day of a key congressional vote on a constitutional reform proposal supported by Bolsonaro that would add printed receipts to some of the nation’s electronic ballot boxes. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro loses his bid to reform voting system

By Mauricio Savarese and Marcelo Silva de Sousa - Associated Press

Democratic Texas State Rep. Ron Reynolds from Missouri City speaks during a voting rights rally on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. A year after his passing, the brothers and niece of the late Congressman John Lewis join Barbara Arnwine with the Transformative Justice Coalition and others to demand Congress and President Joe Biden do whatever it takes to pass the For the People Act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Runaway Dems left in D.C. limbo as Congress exits, Texas threatens arrests

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times