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This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Judge blocks Trump administration’s census deadline

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 14, 2020, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his revised 2020-2021 state budget during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Spending cuts are compounding for schools and state programs, reserve funds are dwindling, and some governors have begun proposing new taxes and fees to shore up state finances shaken by the coronavirus pandemic. With Congress deadlocked over a new coronavirus relief package, many states haven't had the luxury of waiting to see whether more federal money will come their way. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, Pool)

States plan for cuts as Congress deadlocks on more virus aid

By DAVID A. LIEB - Associated Press

Scott Frostman, the Sauk County Republican Party chairman, speaks with local volunteers during a campaign training session in Baraboo, Wis., on Aug. 31, 2020. Sauk County tipped narrowly for President Donald Trump in 2016, by only 109 votes. Republicans there and across Wisconsin and other battleground states, say continuing to campaign in-person, including knocking on doors, is expected by voters albeit with precautions in the age of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Tom Beaumont)

Pandemic politicking: Democrats at laptops. GOP at your door

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and LISA MASCARO - Associated Press

Congresswoman denied access to Florida postal facilities

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2020 file photo, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, accompanied by members of the armed forces, speaks to supporters outside Congress in San Salvador, El Salvador. Bukele has imposed some of the region's toughest measures against the new coronavirus and a growing number of human rights advocates at home and abroad complain the 38-year-old leader has used the emergency to seize near-dictatorial powers. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

US official warns El Salvador’s president that aid at risk

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This July 24, 2020, file photo shows Michael Cohen, center, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, returning to his apartment, in New York, after being released from prison. So-called Son of Sam laws won't keep Cohen from profiting from any part of his book, &quot;Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump,&quot; legal experts told The Associated Press, even if his memoir amounted to a how-to manual for tax evasion and campaign finance violations. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Experts: Cohen may profit from criminal exploits in tell-all

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo a stack of table top voting booths are stored at the Allegheny County Election Division's warehouse on the Northside of Pittsburgh. Election officials are bracing for a potentially chaotic election, trying to navigate the risks of voting during a pandemic, a tidal wave of mail ballots and the president fanning skepticism about the validity of the tabulation. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Election chiefs worry about uncertainty as voting nears

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ALAN SUDERMAN - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

$FILE- In this Oct. 10, 2008 file photo, India's then Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, listens as to a speaker during the signing ceremony for the U.S.-India Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, at the State Department, in Washington. Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who was a key troubleshooter in managing fractious coalitions as a member of India's long-governing Congress party died Monday evening. He was 84. Mukherjee had emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain on August 10 at New Delhi's Army Hospital Research and Referral. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)$

Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee dies at age 84

Associated Press

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Adam Schiff says Russia is helping Trump’s campaign again

By Alex Swoyer and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

A video of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking during the Republican National Convention plays from the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

House Democrats move to hold Pompeo in contempt

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Democrat Cori Bush poised to reshape Missouri delegation

By BY BRYAN LOWRY AND KELSEY LANDIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel addresses the media during a news conference in Lansing, Mich. The U.S. Department of Education is attempting to take pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert the money to private schools, California and four other states argued in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, July 7, 2020, against the Trump administration. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the lawsuit, which was joined by Maine, New Mexico, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/David Eggert, File)

Judge blocks rule that moves relief funds to private schools

By DAVID EGGERT - Associated Press

FILE - An American Airlines Boeing 737-823 lands at Miami International Airport, Monday, July 27, 2020, in Miami.American Airlines said Tuesday, Aug. 25 that it will furlough or lay off 19,000 employees in October as it struggles with a sharp downturn in travel because of the pandemic. Flight attendants will bear the heaviest cuts, with 8,100 losing their jobs. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

White House is mulling options to prevent airline furloughs

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Illustration on post-pandemic air travel by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

America must prepare now for post-pandemic air travel

By Bob Beauprez

Floodlights illuminate the U.S. Capitol dome in Washington, late Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Coronavirus relief bills loaded with special interest, pet project spending

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, New York Democrat, shared data released on Friday showing a steep drop in service starting in July and said the complaints she received about mail are "widespread."

Louis DeJoy, postmaster general, defends Postal Service decisions during hearing

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Republican congressional candidate Laura Loomer celebrates with Milo Yiannopoulos, left, and campaign director Karen Giorno, right, at an election night event at the airport Hilton in West Palm Beach, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Loomer, a far-right Republican candidate banned from social media sites because of her racist and anti-Muslim speech, won a congressional primary in Florida while embracing her role as a general election underdog in a heavily Democratic district that President Donald Trump calls home. (Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post via AP)

Facebook, Twitter won’t lift ban on Laura Loomer following GOP primary win

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

US halts imports linked to Taiwan-based fishing vessel

By BEN FOX - Associated Press