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in this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, migrants are detained in a tented, air-conditioned cage at a Border Patrol detention facility in Tornillo, Texas. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio File) **FILE**

DHS names ombudsman to monitor detention of illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump's name is seen on a stimulus check issued by the IRS to help combat the adverse economic effects of the COVID-19 outbreak, in San Antonio. All that aid is now gone. Yet prospects for more federal stimulus this year appear all but dead, clouding the future for the unemployed, for small businesses and for the economy as a whole.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

As virus resurges, so does fear of more economic pain ahead

By CHRISTOPER RUGABER - Associated Press

In this May 15, 2018, file photo, Alek Skarlatos, right, speaks at the Douglas County Republican Party headquarters in Roseburg, Ore. Skarlatos, who in 2015 helped thwart an attack by a gunman on a Paris-bound train, faces longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio in the November election. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP, File)

Paris train attack hero makes bid for Congress from Oregon

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

Army: Slain Texas soldier’s family entitled to compensation

Associated Press

In this July 24, 2013, file photo, Rep. Justin Amash speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justin Amash backs Tulsi Gabbard resolutions urging U.S. to drop leak cases against Snowden, Assange

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this May 22, 2020, photo, the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible through heavy fog in Washington. New virus relief will have to wait until after the November election. Congress is past the point at which it can deliver more coronavirus aid soon, with differences between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump proving insurmountable. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Deadline looms, but COVID relief deal may be far off

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Five-term incumbent, challenger clash at U.S. House forum

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press

A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Joe Biden: I’m ‘not a fan’ of court-packing

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, May 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s New York State of bankruptcy

By Gary Anderson

The helicopter that will carry President Donald Trump to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., lands on the South Lawn of White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. The White House says Trump will spend a &quot;few days&quot; at the military hospital after contracting COVID-19. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AP Explains: Transfer of power under 25th Amendment

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid, questions Trump’s fitness

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Max Rose, (D-N.Y.) speaks during a portrait session outside his office in Staten Island, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in New York. Rose, a 33 year-old army veteran who served in Afghanistan, represents New York's 11th Congressional District, a swing district encompassing Staten Island and South Brooklyn. He is only the second Democrat to represent the district in 30 years. Rose is facing a stiff challenge from Republican Nicole Malliotakis. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

Candidates in NYC’s only swing district trade shots at mayor

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Democratic congressional candidate Teresa Leger Fernandez, in the blue mask, cheers on supporters at a polling station Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. Fernandez was flanked by her three sons, left to right, Alisandro, Dario and Abelino. The sign she holds, &quot;Ahora es cuando,&quot; is Spanish for &quot;Now is the time.&quot; (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Northern New Mexico district to pick its 1st congresswoman

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Appropriators should make it easier — not harder — for the Pentagon to do its job

By Patty-Jane Geller and Frederico Bartels

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2020 file photo, Lupe Guillén, left, and Gloria Guillén, Vanessa Guillén's sister and mother, speak during a news conference about the &quot;I Am Vanessa Guillén Act,&quot; in honor of the late U.S. Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén, and survivors of military sexual violence, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Current and former soldiers at Fort Hood have taken to social media to report accounts of sexual assault and harassment following the disappearance and slaying this year of Guillen, whose family members say was harassed by the officer who eventually killed her. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

‘The military’s #MeToo moment:’ Fort Hood victims speak out

By ACACIA CORONADO - Associated Press

This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google asks Supreme Court to upset decades of copyright legislation

By Orrin G. Hatch

Former North Dakota congressman, senator Andrews dies at 94

Associated Press

President Donald Trump stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump calls off coronavirus relief negotiations

By Gabriella Muñoz and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The White House is seen in Washington, early Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, the morning after President Donald Trump returned from the hospital where he was treated for COVID-19. Traffic moves along K Street NW as TV crews set up in Black Lives Matter Plaza. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump halts COVID-19 relief talks until after election

By ANDREW TAYLOR and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 29, 2020, file photo, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks via video conference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on antitrust on Capitol Hill in Washington. After years of calling Big Tech too big, Democratic lawmakers are calling for Congress to rein in Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple by breaking them up, limiting future mergers and blocking self-dealing that could hurt competitors. Those proposals are in a 450-page report issued Tuesday, Oct. 6, by a House antitrust panel. With the election less than a month away and a new Congress due to be sworn in Jan. 3, there's little chance of action on the report's recommendations this year. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP, File)

Five things to know about the Big Tech antitrust report

By The Associated Press - Associated Press