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A view of the building known as the so-called troll factory's new office in St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 20, 2018. The Internet Research Agency, is one of a web of companies allegedly controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has reported ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The State Department on July 28, 2022, offered a $10 million reward for information about Russian interference in American elections, including Prigozhin, and a troll farm that officials say fueled a divisive social media campaign in 2016. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)

State Dept. offers rewards of up to $10M for information on election interference

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. American basketball star Brittney Griner returned Wednesday to a Russian courtroom for her drawn-out trial on drug charges that could bring her 10 years in prison of convicted. (Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin poker-faced on US swap offer to free Griner, Whelan

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Lawyers of WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner Alexander Boykov, left, and Maria Blagovolina walk to attend a hearing on their client's case in Khimki district court, just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)

Witnesses testify at trial for Griner’s character

By Jim Heintz - Associated Press

Illustration on Julian Assange by Greg Groesch/The Washington times

The media’s Julian Assange problem

By Jed Babbin

A mosque is shrouded in dust during a sandstorm in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) ** FILE **

Scammer who shut down Iraqi refugee program gets three years in prison

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner leaves a courtroom after a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, May 13, 2022. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was detained at the Moscow airport in February after vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Griner’s fate tangled up with other American held in Russia

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

FILE - Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner is shown during the first half of Game 2 of basketball's WNBA Finals against the Chicago Sky, Oct. 13, 2021, in Phoenix. Griner remains in Russia two months after she was detained arriving at a Moscow airport in mid-February. Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges that allegedly contained oil derived from cannabis, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)

Griner reclassified by U.S. as ‘wrongfully detained’ in Russia

By Jacob Calvin Meyer - The Washington Times

A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

DNI: China still blocking virus origin probe

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

An Afghan boy flies a kite on hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Stranded by U.S., Afghan allies wonder if helping was a ‘mistake’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Recently harvested avocados at an orchard near Ziracuaretiro, Michoacan state, Mexico, Oct. 1, 2019. Mexico has acknowledged late Saturday, Feb. 13, 20222, that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

U.S. suspends Mexican avocado imports on eve of Super Bowl

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

A-29 Super Tucano planes are on display during a handover from the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to the Afghan army at the military Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2020. A year-old report by Washingtons Afghanistan watchdog warned in early 2021, months before President Joe Biden announced the end to America's longest war, the Afghan air force would collapse without critical U.S. aid, training and American maintenance. The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko was classified back when it was written and only declassified on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Watchdog agency warned of Afghan Air Force collapse long before U.S. withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

(Associated Press)

Construction company owner sentenced for illegally securing contracts meant for veterans, minorities

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Poland's Sports Minister Witold Banka speaks during an interview in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, March 18, 2019. The U.S. government paid its remaining $1.3 million in dues to the World Anti-Doping Agency but delivered a brusque message along with the check. A government official called its absence from the regulator’s decision-making boards a “sorry state of affairs.” WADA president Witold Banka called the release of the funds a sign of support from the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File) **FILE**

U.S. pays off WADA dues, rips agency board absence, decisions

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

A boy flies a kite on Tape Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 4 , 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.S. Treasury creates pathway to send aid to Afghanistan

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepares to receive soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people out of Kabul over about six weeks as the American-backed Afghan military and government fell to the Taliban. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

What happened to the Afghanistan evacuation?

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Foreign diplomats listen to Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. The Cuban Foreign Ministry summoned hundreds of foreign diplomats to a meeting and accused the U.S. government of instigating a planned opposition demonstration that local authorities have banned. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Cuba accuses US of organizing new protest demonstrations

By Andrea Rodríguez - Associated Press

This undated file photo provided by U.S. Central Command shows Abu Zubaydah, date and location unknown. A federal appeals court hearing the case of a Guantanamo Bay inmate who was subjected to brutal treatment by the CIA after being detained following the 9/11 attacks took the rare step of calling &quot;enhanced interrogation techniques&quot; torture. The Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco said in a ruling Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, allowing Abu Zubaydah's lawyers to question two former CIA contractors that the Palestinian man &quot;was tortured.&quot; (U.S. Central Command via AP, File)

Biden admin. to allow Gitmo detainee to testify in foreign criminal probe

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed Thursday that his agents are investigating several instances where someone in the U.S. weaponized a drone by adding an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ** FILE **

‘Pretty alarming’: Biden administration ignored Pentagon concerns with Chinese drone purchase

By Ryan Lovelace and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen speaks during a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)

Facebook short-staffed for countering foreign spies

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

(Associated Press/File)

‘War of weaponized influence’: U.S. spending millions to hunt down foreign tweets, memes

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times