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In this photo dated Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021, a worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital where Li Wenliang, the whistleblower doctor who sounded the alarm and was reprimanded by local police for it in the early days of Wuhan's pandemic, worked in Wuhan in central China. A lengthy written report published Thursday, March 25, 2021, from a team of international and Chinese scientists on a joint mission to Wuhan aims to help unearth the origins of the coronavirus since it was first detected in China more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

Former Trump aides want Beijing punished for pandemic

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the sun rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court rejects case over drafting women in the military

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Puerto Rican Statehood Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Census results show why statehood for Puerto Rico is urgently needed

By Jose Fuentes

In this Aug. 24, 2020, file photo, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the Postal Service on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

‘Get used to me’: Postmaster Louis DeJoy evokes Trump style in Biden era

By Will Weissert - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2021, photo, former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. Multiple people who have spoken with Trump and his team in recent weeks say they sense a shift, with the former president increasingly acting and talking like he plans to mount another White House bid. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Democrats condemn world in pursuit of Great Orange Whale

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Illustration on UFOs by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Pentagon and Congress need to get serious about UFOs

By Gary Anderson

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., pauses for reporters after meeting with the family of George Floyd, at the Capitol in Washington,Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi’s punishment for violating security screening, mask mandates faces legal test

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 17, 2018, file photo, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks during a campaign event in Hanover, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Paul Ryan re-emerges to slam Trump, warn GOP against rallying behind ‘one personality’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

This April 21, 2020, photo shows Amazon tractor-trailers line up outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center in the Staten Island borough of New York. The District of Columbia has sued Amazon, Tuesday, May 25, 2021, accusing the online retail giant of illegal anticompetitive practices in its treatment of sellers on its platform. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) **FILE**

Karl Racine, D.C. attorney general, files antitrust suit against Amazon

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this file photo, President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden tells George Floyd family he won’t rush policing bill, wants to get it right

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

Police stand guard after a day of riots at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

A partisan ‘armed insurrection’ at the U.S. Capitol — but not what you may think

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

Lawmakers will likely miss President Biden’s deadline over police laws in part because they can’t agree on qualified immunity. (Associated Press)

Qualified immunity in George Floyd policing reform bill creates impasse

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

In this image from video, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (House Television via AP) ** FILE **

Dems prod Joe Biden to nix bipartisan infrastructure deal for ‘big, bold’ spending spree

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this May 25, 2020, file image from surveillance video, Minneapolis police officers, from left, Tou Thao, Derek Chauvin, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane are seen attempting to take George Floyd into custody in Minneapolis, Minn. (Court TV via AP, Pool, File)

George Floyd death anniversary arrives without congressional deal on policing

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

David Hogg, a survivor of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, speaks with reporters before walking in a planned 50-mile march, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

David Hogg: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘clearly unstable,’ should not be allowed to have guns

By Andrew Blake - 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 **

Family of Ashli Babbitt readies lawsuit against Capitol Police officer who fatally shot her

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, people shelter in the House chamber as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

House narrowly approves $1.9B to fortify U.S. Capitol after riot

By Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

In this March 8, 2021, file photo, members of the National Guard open a gate in the razor wire topped perimeter fence around the Capitol at sunrise in Washington. Threats to members of Congress have more than doubled this year, according to the U.S. Capitol Police, and many members say they fear for their personal safety more than they did before the siege. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Amid threats to members, House to vote on new security

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 18, 2021, on the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. Pelosi is joined by Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., second from left, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., second from right and Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Congress OKs bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans

By Brian Slodysko - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Alamo, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Donald Trump tells Republicans to reject Jan. 6 commission

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times