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People wait inside their vehicles in line at a COVID-19 testing site Wednesday, July 8, 2020, in Houston. Texas has surpassed 10,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time as a resurgence of the outbreak rages across the U.S. The record high of 10,028 confirmed cases Tuesday follows Republican Gov. Greg Abbott decision to mandate masks in much of the state and to close bars, retreating from what had been one of America’s fastest reopenings. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Pentagon to send nearly 600 medical personnel to Texas amid coronavirus surge

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Mississippi sheriff: County ‘blessed’ to get armored vehicle

Associated Press

In this March 16, 2020, file photo, a patient receives a shot in the first-stage safety study clinical trial of a potential vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. A Maryland man who received a vaccine in Baltimore earlier this year believes he may have been successfully vaccinated as part of a clinical trial. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

US bets on untested company to deliver COVID-19 vaccine

By MARTHA MENDOZA and JULIET LINDERMAN - Associated Press

Nevada Democrats aim to block Nellis bombing range expansion

Associated Press

In this file photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 30, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer backs effort to slash Pentagon spending

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 23, 2018, file photo, U.S. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson speaks during a news conference in front of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. A Maryland man who worked for a Defense Department contractor has been sentenced to six months of home detention for threatening to kill Wilson, who supported vaccination requirements for public school students. Darryl Albert Varnum told U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett on Tuesday, July 7, 2020 that he was drunk when he called in the death threat last year. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Man avoids prison for threatening vaccine bill sponsor

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington. Trump began June with his Bible-clutching photo op outside the church after authorities used chemicals and batons to scatter peaceful demonstrators, and the month never got less jarring or divisive. Now, some Republicans are expressing concern about the month's impact on their party's ability to hold the Senate. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

GOP worries Trump’s divisive June imperils Senate control

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

In this July 8, 2019, file photo, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers transfer a man in handcuffs and ankle cuffs onto a van during an operation in Escondido, Calif. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

House Democrats announce cuts to Border Patrol, ICE

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mexican soldiers seize $2.7 million in cash from US vehicle

Associated Press

US Cybercom virtual war game girds against increased threats

By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

In this file photo, members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) **FILE**

Pentagon chief Mark Esper approves extension of military support along southern border

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A large American Flag is unfurled on the Pentagon a day before the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Arlington, Va., Wednesday, September 10, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Mike Griffin and Lisa Porter, Pentagon technology experts, resign

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, covers his eyes as he listens to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speak during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on U.S. trade on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Chuck Grassley asks Pentagon official if he leaked Michael Flynn information to press

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This Jan. 4, 2020, photo shows a sign for at Fort Bragg, N.C. The fight over removing the names of Confederate generals from U.S. Army bases, like Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, has become a national debate. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) **FILE**

Renaming Fort Bragg is personal in NC congressional race

By BRIAN MURPHY and McClatchy - Associated Press

In this Feb. 19, 2020, file photo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton takes part in a discussion on global leadership at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. On June 20, 2020, a federal judge turned down President Trump's request for an injunction halting the sale of the book, due on bookstore shelves on Tuesday, June 23. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Bolton critique of Trump could define tell-all book battles

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Mark Esper speaks by video teleconference from U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Thursday, May 7, 2020, with military medical specialists at civilian hospitals in New York and Connecticut. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Mark Esper rolls out plan to increase diversity in military

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Kathryn Wheelbarger to resign from Pentagon

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 19, 2020, file photo, former National Security Adviser John Bolton takes part in a discussion on global leadership at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. On June 20, 2020, a federal judge turned down President Trump's request for an injunction halting the sale of the book, due on bookstore shelves on Tuesday, June 23. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Bolton critique of Trump could define tell-all book battles

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

In this May 18, 2018, photo, a visitor walks past a display showing microchips and circuit boards at the 21st China Beijing International High-tech Expo in Beijing. The Trump administration imposed restrictions on technology exports to a Chinese semiconductor maker on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, citing national security grounds amid a mounting tariff battle with Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Helping America win the semiconductor race against China

By Bob Dees

Harvard University professor Charles Lieber is surrounded by reporters as he leaves the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Leiber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology, was accused of lying to officials about his involvement with a Chinese government-run recruitment program through which he received tens of thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Charles Lieber, Harvard professor in China case, facing new charges

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times