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Illustration on bad Biden foreign policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s policies are the ‘greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century’

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Illustration on the negative effects of increased socialism in America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Is America still the last, best hope of Earth?

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Andrei Sakharov: Second Coming to His Homeland and the World (sponsored)

Andrei Sakharov: Second Coming to His Homeland and the World

By Matthew Ehret and Edward Lozansky

Saule Omarova of New York testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington to examine her nomination to be the Comptroller of the Currency, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Lawmakers clash over Treasury nominee’s Soviet background, anti-fossil fuel positions

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - In this undated file photo, Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin, first man to orbit the earth, is shown in his space suit. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space 60 years ago. The successful one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 made the 27-year-old Gagarin a national hero and cemented Soviet supremacy in space until the United States put a man on the moon more than eight years later. (AP Photo/File)

Soviet cosmonaut made pioneering spaceflight 60 years ago

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 file photo, the sun sets over a statue of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From a giant statue towering over Moscow to a more modest monument on the Sakhalin Island in the Pacific Ocean, dozens of memorials across Russia commemorate Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who became the first person in space on April 12, 1961, 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

AP PHOTOS: From Moscow to Pacific, Russia glorifies Gagarin

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 1992 file photo, George Blake, a former British spy who doubled as a Soviet agent, gestures during a news conference in Moscow. Blake, a former British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent for the Soviet Union, has died in Russia. He was 98. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service announced his death on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020 without giving any circumstances of his death. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences, hailing Blake as a “brilliant professional” and a man of “remarkable courage.” (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this China National Space Administration (CNSA) photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a simulated image of the ascender of Chang'e-5 spacecraft blasting off from the lunar surface at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) in Beijing on Dec. 3, 2020. The Chinese lunar probe lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a cargo of lunar samples on the first stage of its return to Earth, state media reported. (China National Space Administration/Xinhua via AP)

Chinese probe orbiting moon with Earth-bound samples

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FILE - On Sept. 5, 1972, a Palestinian commando group seizes the Israeli Olympic team quarters at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. A member of the commando group is seen here as he appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the building, where they hold several Israeli athletes hostage. (AP Photo/Kur Stumpf, File)

Israeli team’s massacre overshadows sports at 1972 Olympics

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

In this Nov. 2022 photo, crowds fill the Olympic Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia, during the Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/File)

1956 Melbourne Olympics: 1st Games in southern hemisphere

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping is rumored to be engaged in a power struggle that has shifted rhetoric and heightened military readiness. (Associated Press/File)

China shows signs of hostility against U.S.

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on Putin by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

U.S. must expose and confront Russia’s criminal behavior

By Joseph R. DeTrani

Fred Singer Portrait by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Remembering Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, extreme environmental science critics

By Richard W. Rahn

In this Tuesday, May 7, 2019, file photo, Russian military vehicles roll down Red Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. A massive military parade that was postponed by the coronavirus will roll through Red Square this week to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, even though Russia is continuing to register a steady rise in infections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Vladimir Putin uses World War II parade to boost support before vote

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Yury Chikhanchin, head of Russia's Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 18, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Poland says Putin falsifies history to weaken Western allies

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 15, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin insists on recognition of USSR’s WWII role

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Miles Yu, born in China, is “a central part of my team advising me with respect on how to ensure that we protect Americans and secure our freedoms in the face of challenges from the [Chinese Communist Party].” (State Department photograph)

Miles Yu, Mike Pompeo adviser, helps form China policy

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A worker covers the statue of a Soviet World War II commander Marshall Ivan Stepanovic Konev after its been removed from its site in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, April 3, 2020. Marshall Konev led the Red Army forces that liberated Prague and large parts of Czechoslovakia from the Nazi occupation in 1945. His monument, unveiled in the Prague 6 district in 1980 when the country was occupied by Soviet troops, has been a source of controversy. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Russia aims to prosecute destruction of war monuments abroad

Associated Press

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a public gathering at the city of Yazd, some 410 miles (680 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)

Add Iran’s leadership to ash heap of history

By Cal Thomas