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FILE - In this June 30, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. targets North Korean hackers, money sources as talks sputter

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the agreement signing between Taliban and U.S. officials in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. The United States is poised to sign a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing U.S. troops to return home from America's longest war. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

U.S., Taliban sign deal that calls for troops to exit Afghanistan within 14 months

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Trump team yanking green cards from immigrants who abuse U.S. welfare system

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2019 file photo, asylum seekers, in Tijuana, Mexico, listen to names being called from a waiting list to claim asylum at a border crossing in San Diego. A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a major Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 in a 2-1 vote to put on hold the policy that furthered President Donald Trump's asylum crackdown. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File)

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 9, 2008, file photo, male sage grouses fight for the attention of females southwest of Rawlins, Wyo. A federal judge has cancelled more than $125 million worth of oil and gas leases that were sold on public lands inhabited by the declining bird species greater sage grouse. The ruling Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, said the Trump administration illegally curtailed public comment on the sales. (Jerret Raffety/The Rawlins Daily Times via AP, File)

US judge cancels oil and gas leases on some sage grouse land

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Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a Florida Coronavirus Response Meeting, at the West Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

States to get test kits as White House amps up virus effort

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

In this Oct. 5, 2019, file photo, migrants seeking asylum wait in line with their case paperwork during a weekly trip by volunteers, lawyers, paralegals and interpreters to the migrant campsite outside El Puente Nuevo in Matamoros, Mexico. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP, File)

The Latest: Court ruling disrupts migrant family’s hearing

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Illustration on the negative impact of continued deficits by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump’s deregulations must address the deficit first

By Jen Sidorova

Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speak as Pence arrives for a coronavirus task force meeting at the Department of Health and Human Services, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pence tries to project calm as virus response coordinator

By ZEKE MILLER and DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly, left, and Navy Adm. Michael Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, participate in the dignified transfer for Ensign Cameron Joshua Kaleb Watson, Seaman Mohammed Sameh Haitham and Seaman Apprentice Cameron Scott Walters, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. A Saudi gunman killed the three people in a shooting Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Navy officials: Budget shift hinders fleet goals

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Sununu urges Congress to approve funds for virus response

By HOLLY RAMER - Associated Press

After Gen. Martin Dempsey stepped down as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Obama administration all but removed land mines from the U.S. arsenal. (Associated Press/File)

Land mines in U.S. military arsenal necessary

By Ted R. Bromund - Special to The Washington Times

OSLO, Norway (June 25, 2018) — Kenneth J. Braithwaite, U.S. ambassador to Norway, boards the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) during a scheduled port visit to Oslo, Norway, June 25, 2018. Bainbridge, homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Theron J. Godbold/Released)

Kenneth Braithwaite, Navy secretary nominee, Trump campaign support behind delay, backers say

By Lauren Toms, Ben Wolfgang and Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

A sign identifies the existence of a buried oil pipeline under a corn field in rural Milford, Neb., Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of commercial projects by cutting back federal review of their impact on the environment. The aim of the planned overhaul of the National Environmental Policy Act is to streamline environmental approvals for major construction efforts like highways, airports, pipelines and power plants. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Opponents fault Trump proposal to cut environmental reviews

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Utah Sen. Mitt Romney speaks during a news conference at the University of Utah Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mitt Romney: U.S. ‘substantially underinvesting’ in countering coronavirus

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

‘Public charge’ rule linking welfare use to green card chances take effect

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, hundreds of people overflow onto the sidewalk in a line snaking around the block outside a U.S. immigration office with numerous courtrooms in San Francisco. As the new public charge rule taking effect Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, has approached, droves of immigrants including citizens and legal residents have dropped government social services they or their children may be entitled to out of fear they will be kicked out of the U.S. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

By ANITA SNOW - Associated Press

In this April 9, 2019, file photo, Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lowey, the chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee and a 31-year veteran of Congress, says she will retire at the end of next year. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) **FILE**

Donald Trump requests $2.5 billion for coronavirus fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 20, 2020, file photo, national security adviser Robert O'Brien addresses media during a news conference in Berlin. O'Brien said he's seen no intelligence indicating that Russia is doing anything to try to help get the president re-elected. O'Brien's comments were released Saturday, Feb. 22, in a transcript of an interview with ABC's “This Week with George Stephanopoulos" set to air on Sunday. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Robert O’Brien: Taliban attack this week would ‘likely’ kill peace deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times