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President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One in this December 2020 file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Trump signs coronavirus relief bill after days of tension

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One in this December 2020 file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

House approves Trump’s $2K checks, sending to GOP-led Senate

By LISA MASCARO and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden waves as he arrives at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden says Trump ‘abdicating responsibility’ by refusing to sign economic relief bill

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One in this December 2020 file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

Unemployment benefits for millions in limbo as Trump rages

By ALEXANDRA OLSON and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

A small tree has been decorated for the Christmas holiday, with the U.S. Capitol seen behind it, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Christmas Eve $2,000 stimulus check push fizzles out in the House

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2020, file phoot President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The most improbable of presidents, Donald Trump reshaped the office and shattered its centuries-old norms and traditions while dominating the national discourse like no one before. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump threatens COVID relief bill, testing loyalty of GOP

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING and ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2020 file photo, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and his wife Franki Roberts attend the dedication ceremony for the monument dedicated to Dwight D. Eisenhower, in Washington. Sen. Pat Roberts, delivered his farewell speech on the Senate floor Dec. 10, 2020 after 40 years in Congress. Roberts, is winding down a Washington career that spans ten presidencies, beginning in 1967 as an aide to two Kansas Republicans, Sen. Frank Carlson and later Rep. Keith Sebelius. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh File)

Kansas’ Sen. Roberts exits Congress after a half century

By BRYAN LOWRY - Associated Press

FILE - A traveler wears a mask as she waits for her flight in Terminal 3 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic created winners and losers in the business world. Wall Street recovered after March, even though Main Street is still struggling. As few people traveled, the airline industry needed billions of dollars in aid from the government and is still threatening to lay off workers.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Some businesses thrived, many lagged during pandemic in 2020

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 22, 2020 file photo, Luke Letlow, R-Start, chief of staff to exiting U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, speaks after signing up to run for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana’s newest member of Congress is in intensive care with COVID-19. Posts on Rep. Luke Letlow’s website and Twitter account Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020 noted that the congressman is being treated at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

Letlow transferred to ICU for COVID-19 treatment

Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent Minnesota editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A statue of Jefferson Davis, second from left, is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. The statue was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol by Mississippi in 1931. Davis served the nation in many positions before being appointed president of the Confederate States during the Civil War, including Secretary of War, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a member of the U.S. Senate. The move in South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds is prompting members of Congress to take a new look at Confederate images that surround them every day. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Confederate statues stay in U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall collection despite Democrats’ opposition

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Trump is traveling to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Donald Trump sows chaos for Congress, departs for Florida

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol is seen at night after negotiators sealed a deal for COVID relief, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Washington. Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana.

EDITORIAL: Trump right to criticize the 5,593-page COVID-19 relief boondoggle

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol building on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**

How the new Congress and administration can protect pensioners, taxpayers

By Rachel Greszler

Marine One, with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump aboard, lifts off the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Washington, enroute to Andrews Air Force Base and then onto Florida. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

With a video filmed in secret, Trump keeps sowing chaos

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

In this image made from video released by the State of West Virginia, a nurse administers a coronavirus shot to west Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Charleston, W.Va. The 69-year-old Republican governor said he would receive a shot before cameras which would make him one of the first top elected officials in the country to get vaccinated. Officials said they want to demonstrate their confidence in the vaccine. (State of West Virginia via AP)

Politicians and vaccines: Set an example or cut in line?

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

Dusk falls over the Capitol, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in Washington. Congressional leaders have hashed out a massive, year-end catchall bill that combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

$900B COVID relief bill passed by Congress, sent to Trump

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 2020 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stands with Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the head of the ruling sovereign council, in Khartoum, Sudan. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, Sudan’s Justice Ministry said the U.S. Congress has moved forward on Washington’s promise to end the African country’s pariah status. The ministry said that Congress passed legislation that restored to Sudan what is known as sovereign immunity, a measure that would effectively stop future compensation claims from being filed against it in U.S. courts. (Sudanese Cabinet via AP, File)

Sudan says US Congress moves ahead on ending pariah status

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Dusk falls over the Capitol, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, in Washington. Congressional leaders have hashed out a massive, year-end catchall bill that combines $900 billion in COVID-19 aid with a $1.4 trillion spending bill and reams of other unfinished legislation on taxes, energy, education and health care. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

As small businesses await new US aid, it’s too late for some

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG and PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press