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This booking photo released on March 18, 2019, by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office shows former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Manrique. A U.S. judge on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, ordered the former Peruvian president to surrender to federal agents after an appeals court denied his latest motion to stop his extradition back to Peru where he faces charges he accepted millions of dollars in bribes. (San Mateo County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

Peru’s former president surrenders to U.S. federal agents

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President of European Central Bank Christine Lagarde speaks during a press conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, March 16, 2023, after a meeting of the ECB's governing council. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Europe’s central bank backs big rate hike despite bank chaos

By David McHugh - Associated Press

Why TikTok is being banned for some government employees

Workers at ACCESS, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, help with meals for the Arab community in Dearborn, Mich., on May 1, 2020. A Middle Eastern and North African category would be added to U.S. federal surveys and censuses, and changes would be made to how Hispanics are able to self-identify, under preliminary recommendations released Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023, by the Biden administration in what would be the first update to race and ethnicity standards in a quarter century. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

New U.S. race, ethnicity standards proposed; first since ‘97

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Lethrese Rosete, a 20-year-old DePaul sophomore who is majoring in UX design to combine her creativity and coding skills, plays an online game at the university's Esports Gaming Center Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, in Chicago. A growing effort to channel students' enthusiasm for esports toward preparing them for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math could improve racial diversity in STEM. (AP Photo/Claire Savage)

Esports seen as pathway to boost diversity in STEM careers

By Claire Savage - Associated Press

In this Nov. 7, 2017, file photo, former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke attends a ceremony awarding them both with the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to three U.S.-based economists “for research on banks and financial crises.”The award to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig was announced Monday, Oct.10, 2022, by the Nobel panel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Former Fed chair Bernanke shares Nobel for research on banks

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A man points to a home that was collapsed by Hurricane Fiona at Villa Esperanza in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)

Puerto Rico struggles to reach areas cut off by Fiona

By Danica Coto - Associated Press

Boat captain Emosi Dawai looks at the superyacht Amadea where it is docked at the Queens Wharf in Lautoka, Fiji, on April 13, 2022. The superyacht that American authorities say is owned by a Russian oligarch previously sanctioned for alleged money laundering has been seized by law enforcement in Fiji, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday, May 5. (Leon Lord/Fiji Sun via AP, File)

Court considers whether U.S. can seize a Russian yacht in Fiji

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, listens to discussion of Arkansas' plan that uses Medicaid funds to buy private insurance for the poor on the House floor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The measure, opposed by Westerman, passed in the House Tuesday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

House Republicans push to ban Russian wood imports with ‘No Timber from Tyrants’ bill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell, seated second from right, draws a courtroom artist, standing far left, during a courtroom break in her sex-abuse trial, Tuesday Dec. 7, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Prosecutors in Maxwell case say juror made ‘honest mistake’

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Gas prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station in West Hollywood, Calif., Tuesday, March 8, 2022. The average price for a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. hit a record $4.17 on Tuesday as the country prepares to ban Russian oil imports. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Pressure builds on Biden to repay Venezuela’s goodwill moves

By Joshua Goodman and Reginia Garcia Cano - Associated Press

Illustration on government spending and inflation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Preventing the next great inflation

By Richard W. Rahn

Illustration on IPOB's status as a Foreign Terrorist Group by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

U.S. ignores small African terrorist group IPOB at its peril

By Ivan Sascha Sheehan

This May 4, 2021, file photo shows a sign outside the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Islamic State figure charged with supporting terrorist group

Associated Press

Matthias Krull, a former banker for Switzerland’s Julius Baer in Venezuela, poses for a portrait at his home in Miami on March 18, 2021. For two decades, Krull played a singular role in Venezuela as the go-to private banker for government insiders, before pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in Miami federal court in 2018. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Swiss banker to Venezuelan kleptocrats becomes star witness

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Matthias Krull, a former banker for Switzerland’s Julius Baer in Venezuela, poses for a portrait at his home in Miami on March 18, 2021. For two decades, Krull played a singular role in Venezuela as the go-to private banker for government insiders, before pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering in Miami federal court in 2018. (AP Photo/Cody Jackson)

Swiss banker to Venezuela’s ruling elite turns star witness

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Medical staff prepares an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during preparations at the vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany, Monday, March 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

U.S.: AstraZeneca may have used outdated info in COVID-19 vaccine trial

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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez speaks to the reporters as he leaves a meeting at the Organization of American States, in Washington. Newly proposed U.S. legislation introduced Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, targets Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Honduran drug trafficker convicted in US trial

By CLAUDIA TORRENS - Associated Press

Washington state, Canada try to kill Asian giant hornets

Associated Press

Myanmar's military stand guard at a checkpoint manned with an armored vehicle in a road leading to the parliament building Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. A day after Myanmar's military staged a coup, Aung San Suu Kyi finds herself back under house arrest. But this time, her standoff with the generals comes after she has sorely disappointed many once-staunch supporters in the international community. (AP Photo)

Biden admin. declares ‘coup’ in Myanmar, throwing U.S. aid into question

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times