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In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, file photo, U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks during a press conference at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

William Barr, attorney general, resigns, Donald Trump says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 air defense systems, are unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft, at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, July 12, 2019. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

U.S. sanctions Turkey over the acquisition of Russian S-400 missile defense system

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks at the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. DeVos has extended the moratorium on student loan payments and the accrual of interest until Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Trump eases rules for religious social service providers

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

TikTok urges federal appeals court to rule against Trump ban

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this July 27, 2020, photo, Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives a volunteer an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. A new poll released Wednesday, Dec. 9, from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, find only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 vaccines even as states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink) **FILE**

HHS: U.S. purchases 100M more Moderna doses

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant is shown in Portage, Mich., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine won an endorsement Thursday, Dec. 10, from a Food and Drug Administration panel of outside advisers, and agency signoff is the next step needed to get the shots to the public. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

States will start getting COVID-19 vaccine Monday, US says

By MATTHEW PERRONE and MIKE STOBBE and MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, is a juniper tree cut down as part of a giant project to remove junipers encroaching on sagebrush habitat needed by imperiled sage grouse in southwestern Idaho. Conservation groups are blasting a Trump administration decision streamlining environmental reviews of timber salvage projects and cutting down pinyon-juniper woodlands on millions of acres in the U.S. West. WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project and seven other groups say the rules approved Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, fast-track projects to benefit logging, grazing and mining while eliminating public comments. (AP Photo/Keith Ridler, File)

Groups blast Trump logging plan aimed at reducing wildfires

By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press

In this April 22, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. Birx was brought into President Donald Trump’s orbit to help fight the coronavirus, she had a sterling reputation as a globally recognized AIDS researcher and a rare Obama administration holdover. Less than 10 months later, her reputation is frayed and her future in President-elect Joe Biden's administration uncertain. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump virus coordinator Birx seeks role in Biden government

By Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

In this May 2, 2017 file photo, Morocco's King Mohammed VI, left, smiles as he arrives at the Elysee Palace to meet France's President Francois Hollande in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Israel, Morocco strike deal to normalize diplomatic relations

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Trump admin.’s TikTok restrictions blocked by second federal judge

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks after awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, to Olympic gold medalist and former University of Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Feds passed up chance to lock in more Pfizer vaccine doses

By ZEKE MILLER and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

Govt accuses Facebook of discriminating against US workers

By MARCY GORDON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2020, file photo, a motorist drives into the sunrise in Kansas City, Mo. At a board meeting Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a big industry trade association, recognized that change is coming. Alliance CEO John Bozzella said automakers are committed to working with the Biden administration, which will renew the fight against climate change and likely will undo pollution and gas mileage rollbacks made by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Automakers prep for stronger mileage standards under Biden

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP, File)

Trump administration slates Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leasing sale for early January

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is one of the 10 members of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board who will be replaced. He was one of the pro-China holdovers from the Obama administration. (Associated Press/File)

Henry Kissinger, 9 others leave Defense Policy Board

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington. On Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, a U.S. judge in California struck down two Trump administration rules designed to drastically curtail the number of visas issued each year to skilled foreign workers. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Judge Jeffrey White blocks Trump bid forcing firms to pay Americans before hiring foreign workers

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Obama frustrated by ‘shambolic nature’ of Trump’s COVID-19 response

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Trump administration grants TikTok a one-week extension

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2020, file photo President-elect Joe Biden puts on his face mask after introducing nominees and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. Congress is bracing for Biden to move beyond the Trump administration’s state-by-state approach to the COVID-19 crisis and build out a national strategy to fight the pandemic and distribute the eventual vaccine.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Congress braces for Biden’s national coronavirus strategy

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press