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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, April 3, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House press secretary Jean-Pierre survived quiet ouster attempt

By Staff - The Washington Times

Las Vegas Aces' A'ja Wilson holds up the championship trophy as she celebrates with teammates after their win in the WNBA basketball finals against the Connecticut Sun, Sept. 18, 2022, in Uncasville, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) **FILE**

Take two: Biden to host Las Vegas Ace after botching their last WNBA championship

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Guiliani, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, was among those indicted Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in an Arizona election interference case.(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Some of those charged with interfering in the 2020 election are still in politics today

By Kate Brumback - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2018, file photo, Howard Stern speaks at the 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies in Cleveland. Stern has reached a five-year deal with SiriusXM to continue making his show for the satellite radio company through the end of 2025, in a deal announced Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. Terms were not disclosed. Forbes magazine has reported that Stern was already making $90 million a year. (Photo by Michael Zorn/Invision/AP, File)

Biden does surprise interview with Howard Stern

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Sgt. Ian Ketterling, gunner for Alpha Battery, 1st Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 17th Field Artillery Brigade, prepares the crane for loading the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) on to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in Queensland, Australia, July 26, 2023. U.S. officials say Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles, called ATACMS, striking a Russian military airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in another occupied area overnight. (Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dickson/U.S. Army via AP)

Ukraine uses long-range missiles secretly provided by U.S. to hit Russian-held areas, officials say

By Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden grants clemency to crack, cocaine dealers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives with his sons Donald Trump, Jr., left and Eric Trump, to speak at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2024. A New York judge ruled Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, against Donald Trump, imposing a $364 million penalty over what the judge ruled was a yearslong scheme to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated the former president's wealth. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump’s eldest sons to help with presidential transition team

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

FILE - Then Prime Minister Taro Aso of Japan speaks with reporters during a news conference at the end of the financial summit in Washington, Nov. 15, 2008. Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he’s in New York for his criminal hush money trial. The presumptive GOP nominee will host former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the plans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Trump to meet with senior Japanese official after court session Tuesday in hush money trial

By Jill Colvin - Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: Trump’s difficult path back

President Joe Biden boards Air Force One, March 11, 2024, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The White House and the Democratic National Committee are splitting the cost of Biden’s travel while he runs for a second term. It’s part of a longstanding arrangement that prevents taxpayers from being stuck with the full bill for political trips. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

When it comes to government planes and political trips, who pays for a president’s campaign travel?

By Chris Megerian - Associated Press

Tommy Marshall, 56, of Atlanta, poses for a portrait on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Atlanta. Marshall who has type 1 diabetes, paid $251 dollars for four to eight weeks worth of medication in November. "Even if you can afford it, just paying that much for something that you know is a massive profit center for the drug company is challenging," said Marshall, a lifelong Democrat. He added of Biden, "If I was a his political consultant I'd be telling him to talk about it constantly." (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Biden sees a $35 price cap for insulin as a pivotal campaign issue. It’s not that clear-cut

By Will Weissert - Associated Press

Iranian worshippers chant slogans during an anti-Israeli gathering after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 19, 2024. An apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran saw troops fire air defenses at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan, an assault coming in retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile assault on the country. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Biden avoids a further Mideast spiral as Israel and Iran show restraint. But for how long?

Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings during jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, April 18, 2024 in New York.(Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump campaign knocks Biden ‘hypocrisy’ over ‘Hitler Pig’ comment

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic in the Oval Office at the White House, April 15, 2024. Biden’s latest plan for student loan cancellation is moving forward as a proposed regulation, offering him a fresh chance to deliver on a campaign promise and energize young voters ahead of the November election. The Education Department on Tuesday filed paperwork for a new regulation that would deliver the cancellation the Democratic president announced last week. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Derisive nickname: Biden staffers secretly refer to Donald Trump as Hitler Pig

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

China, with the help of the EPA, is coming for your car

By Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz.

View of the Jose Antonio Anzoategui oil complex in Barcelona, Anzoategui State, Venezuela, July 3, 2022. The Biden administration on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, eased some oil sanctions on Venezuela in an effort to support newly restarted negotiations between President Nicolás Maduro’s government and its opposition. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix) **FILE**

U.S. to remove sanctions relief on Venezuelan oil industry

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of proceedings on the second day of jury selection at Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in New York. Trump returned to the courtroom Tuesday as a judge works to find a panel of jurors who will decide whether the former president is guilty of criminal charges alleging he falsified business records to cover up a sex scandal during the 2016 campaign. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump returns to court as jury selection enters second day in his hush money criminal trial

By Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, Jake Offenhartz and Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Raleigh, N.C., March. 26, 2024. Biden as won the Democratic presidential caucuses in Wyoming, Saturday, April 13. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)

White House rejects long-shot House Republican effort to get Biden to testify

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Illustration on failures in American education by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

America is facing an education crisis

By Stewart McLaurin

$American Muslims women pray to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan at Petree Hall in Los Angeles Wednesday, April 10, 2024. As the war in Gaza enters its seventh month, some Muslim and Arab American leaders have grown frustrated with outreach from President Joe Biden's White House. The fractured relationship could jeopardize the Democratic president's reelection campaign and help pave the way for Republican Donald Trump to return to the White House. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)$

Muslim leaders are ‘out of words’ as they tire of the White House outreach on the war in Gaza

By Chris Megerian and Joey Cappelletti - Associated Press