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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

In this July 12, 2021, file photo, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen prepares to speak during a meeting of finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels. Yellen told Congress on Friday, July 23, that she will start taking emergency measures next week to keep the government from an unprecedented default on the national debt. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Treasury Secretary Yellen urges Congress to raise debt limit on ‘bipartisan basis’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illegal Aliens Invade America Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Border numbers renew urgency for immigration reform

By Paul Rosenzweig

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden talks to Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 after winning the South Carolina primary. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Biden nominates Clyburn’s daughter to federal commission on poverty

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this file photo, President Bush declares the end of major combat in Iraq as he speaks aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the California coast, in this May 1, 2003 file photo. More than 18 years later, the legislation authorizing the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War remain on the books. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met on August 3, 2021, to grapple with a measure to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which provided the legal justification for the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biden officials back repealing Iraq war authorizations ahead of Senate panel vote

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this July 24, 2021, file photo, former President Donald Trump speaks on a variety of topics to supporters at a Turning Point Action gathering in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

‘No evidence of any wrongdoing’: Trump fights release of tax returns, lawyer says

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

The War Powers Debate Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

War Powers debate must focus on rejecting endless wars while protecting American lives

By Sen. Bill Hagerty

Rep. Cori Bush, Missouri Democrat, is seen at right in black, with a group of progressive protesters on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Ms. Bush is protesting her House colleagues going on August recess as the federal eviction moratorium expires. She is urging House leadership to return to the Hill to pass an extension on the moratorium. (Photo by Kery Murakami/The Washington Times)

Cori Bush urges House members to return from vacation to extend eviction moratorium

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

An applicant studies the paperwork she was provided at a rental assistance fair for Jackson residents at the Mississippi Trademart in the state Fairgrounds, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. Several hundred applicants attended the two-day fair to apply for rental assistance through federal financial aid covering 15 months, and utility bill assistance for gas, electricity, water, sewer and trash removal. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

White House, congressional Democrats trade blame for the end of eviction moratorium

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this file photo, a U.S. Capitol Police officer, right, stands with two National Guard members near the scene where a fellow officer was killed after a man rammed a car into two officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol and then emerged wielding a knife, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Congress approves emergency spending to repay National Guard, Capitol Police for Jan. 6 riot costs

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., arrive for the first House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Rep. Liz Cheney: Jan. 6 attack cannot be ‘whitewashed’; probe targets Trump White House role

By Seth McLaughlin and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Illustration on government health care insurance policy and small business by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Government does not know best when it comes to health care

By Karen Kerrigan

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Phoenix is seen here on Aug. 5, 2008. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: Homeland Security would need years to prepare for new amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 18, 2012, photo, female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) **FILE**

Senate Democrats put female draft back on the table

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen prepares to speak during a meeting of eurogroup finance ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on Monday, July 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Yellen tells Congress that U.S. will reach debt limit on Aug. 1

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, April 24, 2021, file photo made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station for docking. SpaceX's four astronauts had barely settled into orbit on Friday, April 23, when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk. It turns out there was no threat, the U.S. Space Command acknowledged Monday, April 26. The error is under review. (NASA via AP)

Lawmakers position U.S. to become the galaxy’s garbage man as space trash piles up

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020, file photo, Republican Reps. Chris Stewart, left, and John Curtis talk during an Utah Republican election night party in Sandy, Utah. Curtis is leading a new Conservative Climate Caucus for House Republicans. The group wants to educate fellow Republicans about global warming and develop market-based policies to counter Green New Deal and other Democratic proposals. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Worried they’ll be called ‘climate deniers’ some in GOP are dancing with Democrats

By Steve Milloy

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

Lawmakers push to reclaim war powers from presidents

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this file photo, National Guard keep watch on the Capitol, Thursday, March 4, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Lobby group calls on Congress to repay National Guard for D.C. security mission

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks to reporters before he boards Air Force One at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in Hebron, Ky., Wednesday, July 21, 2021, to travel back to Washington after speaking at a CNN town hall in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden defends filibuster, warns elimination would cause ‘chaos’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times