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Chief Justice Roberts blocks ruling that threatened Trump personnel moves

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts speaks during lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025, in Washington, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has put a hold on a lower court ruling that had suggested judges could step in to hear cases where the normal machinery of the executive branch wasn’t working.

Trump accuses Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of disloyalty after post-pardon re-election announcement

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Trump on Sunday slammed Rep. Henry Cuellar’s decision to seek re-election as a Democrat despite receiving a pardon last week for himself and his wife on federal bribery and money laundering charges.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Trump accuses Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of disloyalty after post-pardon re-election announcement

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Trump said Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, that the U.S. military had carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month. Trump said in a social media post that the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.” Since then, the U.S. military has issued more strikes. (Screen grab of Truth Social video) ** FILE **

How Trump’s drug boat strikes measure up to Obama’s drone assassination missions

By Kerry Picket and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)

DOJ dares Judge Boasberg to hold Trump officials in contempt

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with reporters at the White House, Aug. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Border czar Tom Homan defends Trump’s targeting of illegal Somali immigrants in Minnesota

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

CORRECTS FAMILY NAME TO ADAMCHUK - Oleksandr Adamchuk, 36, a repair and maintenance master for DTEK, second from right, does scheduled repair work on an energy substation with his brigade, from left, Rostyslav Yashchuk, Roman Gerasymchuk, Andriy Korniychuk and Igor Kryvenko, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in Kyiv region, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Russia hits critical energy, heating sites in Ukraine’s Poltava region as winter wears on

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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FILE - White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with reporters at the White House, Aug. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Border czar Tom Homan defends Trump’s targeting of illegal Somali immigrants in Minnesota

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

CORRECTS FAMILY NAME TO ADAMCHUK - Oleksandr Adamchuk, 36, a repair and maintenance master for DTEK, second from right, does scheduled repair work on an energy substation with his brigade, from left, Rostyslav Yashchuk, Roman Gerasymchuk, Andriy Korniychuk and Igor Kryvenko, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in Kyiv region, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Russia hits critical energy, heating sites in Ukraine’s Poltava region as winter wears on

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during an event on "Trump Accounts" for kids in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media’s take on economy irks Trump, Bessent says, as poll numbers sink and cost of living still high

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

This undated booking photo provided by the Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jail shows Oscar Solarzano, who was charged with stabbing a man on a light-rail train in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jail via AP)

Illegal immigrant charged in Charlotte light rail stabbing had been deported twice, DHS says

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Thousands of protesters look at at a rally following a march in favor of gun control at the Seattle Center Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Seattle. Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation's capital and cities across America on Saturday to press for gun control in one of the biggest youth protests since the Vietnam era. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Judge Boasberg’s hypocrisy

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Republican lawmakers need to sell the ‘big beautiful bill’ now

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White House website rightly focuses on media malfeasance

By Tim Murtaugh

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Conservatives, take note of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes

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Jeremy O. Harris poses for photographers prior to the start of the Bottega Veneta women's Fall-Winter 2024-25 collection presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

American playwright Jeremy O. Harris arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of drug smuggling

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Influencer Samuel Weidenhofer, left, poses for a photo with Ed Bambas, right, the 88-year-old Brighton resident who is the recipient of over $1.7 million after a viral Gofundme campaign was started by Weidenhofer, after the amount is revealed to Bambas, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, in Brighton, Mich. (Katy Kildee/Detroit News via AP)

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New York magazine's Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi poses for photographers as she arrives at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Vanity Fair parts ways with Olivia Nuzzi amid Robert F. Kennedy Jr. controversy

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In this file photo, Sergey Karjakin, of Russia, reaches in to take a white piece from his opponent, Magnus Carlsen, of Norway, in Game 12 of the World Chess Championship, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in New York. U.S. chess grandmaster Hans Moke Niemann, the target of cheating allegations at the highest level of the game, has made a counter-move against his accusers, filing a $100 million-plus lawsuit accusing world champion Magnus Carlsen of Norway, top U.S. grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura and one of the biggest online chess-playing services of "colluding to blacklist" him from competing. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

Three-year-old chess prodigy sets sights on becoming youngest grandmaster in history

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Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Samuel Paparo delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of Super Garuda Shield 2025, an Indonesia-US annual large-scale joint military exercise that brings together forces from multiple countries, in Jakarta, Indonesia Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indo-Pacific Command admiral set to wage AI powered warfare

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This image taken from video provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from the USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, March 15, 2025. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Mechanical problems, poor seamanship blamed for damaged aircraft carrier and multiple jet fighters

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Former New York Governor Kathy Hochul aide Linda Sun and her husband, Christopher Hu, arrives at Brooklyn federal court, Nov. 13, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trial of former aide to New York governors highlights massive Chinese influence operations

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

India nationals, believed to have worked at scam center in Myanmar, board a plane at Thailand's Mae Sot International Airport in Tak, before being sent back to India Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Sarot Meksophawannakul)

Thailand arrests dozens behind online lonely-hearts scams, phony get-rich-quick schemes

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during an event on "Trump Accounts" for kids in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Media’s take on economy irks Trump, Bessent says, as poll numbers sink and cost of living still high

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Houston Astros player Roger Clemens throws out the ceremonial pitch ahead of Game 1 of baseball's American League Championship Series between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees, Oct. 19, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox, File)

Trump pushes Hall of Fame to induct star pitcher Roger Clemens

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump to affordability critics: ‘I’M FIXING IT’

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Construction of a new ballroom continues on the East Wing of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump slams ballroom questions: ‘Under budget and ahead of schedule’

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FILE - White House border czar Tom Homan speaks with reporters at the White House, Aug. 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Border czar Tom Homan defends Trump’s targeting of illegal Somali immigrants in Minnesota

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts speaks during lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025, in Washington, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Chief Justice Roberts blocks ruling that threatened Trump personnel moves

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, speaks during a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Trump accuses Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of disloyalty after post-pardon re-election announcement

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President Trump said Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, that the U.S. military had carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month. Trump said in a social media post that the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.” Since then, the U.S. military has issued more strikes. (Screen grab of Truth Social video) ** FILE **

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, third from right, Russian Presidential Foreign Policy Adviser Yuri Ushakov, fourth from right, and Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev, right, attend talks with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, second from left, and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, third, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Dec. 2, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Conservatives cried ‘woke’ and Ken Burns made a correction in his new documentary

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This undated booking photo provided by the Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jail shows Oscar Solarzano, who was charged with stabbing a man on a light-rail train in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jail via AP)

Illegal immigrant charged in Charlotte light rail stabbing had been deported twice, DHS says

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A passenger inside a Waymo vehicle looks out of the window while leaving the San Jose Mineta International Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Waymo recalling software for its self-driving cars amid federal probe

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This combination of photos provided by the Virginia State Police shows Travis L. Turner, a southwest Virginia high school football coach who went missing and has been charged with possession of child pornography. (Virginia State Police via AP)

Family of missing Virginia high school football coach urge him to come back, defend himself in court

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CORRECTS FAMILY NAME TO ADAMCHUK - Oleksandr Adamchuk, 36, a repair and maintenance master for DTEK, second from right, does scheduled repair work on an energy substation with his brigade, from left, Rostyslav Yashchuk, Roman Gerasymchuk, Andriy Korniychuk and Igor Kryvenko, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in Kyiv region, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Russia hits critical energy, heating sites in Ukraine’s Poltava region as winter wears on

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President Trump said Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, that the U.S. military had carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month. Trump said in a social media post that the strike killed three and was carried out against a vessel “affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility.” Since then, the U.S. military has issued more strikes. (Screen grab of Truth Social video) ** FILE **

How Trump’s drug boat strikes measure up to Obama’s drone assassination missions

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Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts speaks during lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class of 2025, in Washington, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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This combination of photos provided by the Virginia State Police shows Travis L. Turner, a southwest Virginia high school football coach who went missing and has been charged with possession of child pornography. (Virginia State Police via AP)

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President Donald Trump addresses a dinner for donors who have contributed to build the new ballroom at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., right, speak during a news conference as the House prepares to vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. They are joined by survivors and family members who recounted their personal stories of Epstein. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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