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People gather at a rally protesting lawmakers gathering to override Gov. Eric Holcomb's veto of HB 1041, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis. (Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

Wyoming bans biological males in girls’ sports

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., left, and Sen. John Thune. R-S.D., right, speak during the news conference to introduce the Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information Communications Technology Act, or RESTRICT Act, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Joe Manchin stakes out a more conservative space as 2024 looms

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Retired Air Force officer Larry Rendall Brock Jr. walks out of Parker County Jail upon release on Jan. 14, 2021, in Weatherford, Texas. Brock, who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday, March 17, 2023. Brock joined other rioters on the Senate floor only minutes after then-Vice President Mike Pence, senators and their staff evacuated the chamber to escape the mob attacking the building on Jan. 6, 2021. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

Former Air Force officer gets prison term for Capitol attack

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The European Union's executive arm said Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 it has temporarily banned TikTok from phones used by employees as a cybersecurity measure, reflecting growing worries from authorities over the Chinese-owned video sharing app. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) **FILE**

Senate’s crackdown on TikTok gains momentum as House gears up to question firm’s CEO

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Quentin Fulks, who managed Sen. Raphael Warnock's re-election campaign in 2022, stands for a portrait outside the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. After directing Warnock's midterm reelection win, Fulks is in the running for a top job on President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Warnock’s campaign chief sees lessons from Dems in Georgia

By Bill Barrow - Associated Press

Troops from the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division deploy across the Saudi desert during preparations prior to the Gulf War after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Nov. 4, 1990. (AP Photo/Greg English, File)

Senate advances vote to repeal Bush-era war authorizations that led to Gulf War, invasion of Iraq

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a news conference near SoFi Stadium, on Feb. 2, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. The Senate is holding a make-or-break vote on the long-stalled nomination of former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to become ambassador to India. The outcome appears uncertain, amid questions about Garcetti's support from Democrats and the continuing fallout from a sexual harassment scandal involving a former top adviser at City Hall. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Senate confirms Garcetti as India ambassador on divided vote

By Michael R. Blood, Mary Clare Jalonek and Chris Megerian - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., pauses as he talks to reporters about President Joe Biden's budget proposal at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer whacks House GOP energy package as ‘unserious’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young, testifies during a Senate committee on the President's FY'24 budget proposal, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Biden’s budget czar draws a blank on how to rescue Social Security from insolvency

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, accompanied by DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, right, speaks at a news conference on March 13, 2020, in Washington. Mendelson, head of the D.C. Council, said Monday, March 6, 2023, that he is withdrawing the capital city’s new criminal code from consideration, just before a U.S. Senate vote that seemed likely to overturn the measure. But it's unclear if the action will prevent the vote or spare President Joe Biden a politically charged decision on whether to endorse the congressional action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Criminal code fiasco shows D.C. unfit for statehood

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

FILE - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks to the chamber for a test vote on a government spending bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. McConnell, 81, has been hospitalized after tripping and falling at a hotel as he was attending a private dinner at a Washington hotel Wednesday night, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Mitch McConnell heads to inpatient rehab after being released from hospital

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

A man walks past not collected garbage cans, Thursday, March 9, 2023 in Paris. The show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is set to continue in coming days, as train and metro drivers, refinery workers, garbage collectors and others have said they would continue ongoing strikes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French Senate adopts pension bill despite street protests

By Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks to members of the press inside the Rotunda of the state Capitol building on Feb. 25, 2023, in Richmond, Va. A top political adviser to Youngkin insisted on Monday, Feb. 27, that there's room for the Virginia governor to enter the Republican presidential primary a day after suggesting the campaign was a “two-person race between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.” Jeff Roe, a strategist for Youngkin, told The Associated Press that his weekend comments on Fox News were not a signal of Youngkin’s intentions or future prospects. (AP Photo/John C. Clark, File)

Virginia Gov. Youngkin scores some legislative wins as he eyes White House

By Sarah Rankin and Michelle L. Price - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., pauses as he talks to reporters about President Joe Biden's budget proposal, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators’ calls for censorship threaten democracy

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Jacob Anthony Chansley, center, with other insurrectionists who supported then-President Donald Trump, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber in the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Elon Musk calls for release of ‘QAnon Shaman’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

David Lorenz, Maryland leader of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, testifies in favor of a measure to end Maryland's statute of limitations for when civil lawsuits can be filed against institutions for child sexual abuse during a hearing before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 in Annapolis, Md. The committee passed the bill 10-1 on Friday, March 10, , sending it to the Maryland Senate. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Maryland panel OKs time limit end on sex abuse lawsuits

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed Feb. 3, in East Palestine, Ohio, are still on fire on Feb. 4, 2023. A Senate committee is holding a hearing Thursday, March 9, to look into the train derailment in East Palestine. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Norfolk Southern CEO bringing apology, aid commitment to Senate hearing

By Stephen Groves and Josh Funk - Associated Press

Tucker Carlson, left, and former President Donald Trump, right, react during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., July 31, 2022. A defamation lawsuit against Fox News is revealing blunt behind-the-scenes opinions by its top figures about Donald Trump, including a Tucker Carlson text message where he said “I hate him passionately.” Carlson's private conversation was revealed in court papers at virtually the same time as the former president was hailing the Fox News host on social media for a “great job” for using U.S. Capitol security video to produce a false narrative of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Court records show political pressure behind Fox programming

By Nicholas Riccardi and David Bauder

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. A spokesman for McConnell said the senator has been hospitalized after tripping and falling Wednesday, March 8, at a hotel. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP Leader McConnell remains in hospital after concussion

By Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

A great egret flies above a great blue heron in a wetland inside the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge in Trenton, Mich., on Oct. 7, 2022. The House on March 9, 2023, voted to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business. The vote was 227-198 to overturn the rule. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Biden environmental rule on wetlands suffers bipartisan setback in House

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times