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Top general defends ‘double-tap’ strike on drug boat as Democrat calls footage ‘troubling’

U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley, accompanied by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, walks to a meeting with senators on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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The commander of U.S. Special Operations Command told top members of Congress on Thursday that no one issued a “kill them all” order during a pair of military strikes on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean in September, lawmakers said after a closed-door hearing.

Trump’s border streak continues with best November numbers ever

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) **FILE**

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The border saw another record month of calm in November, with Border Patrol agents apprehending about 7,350 illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, according to data shared first with The Washington Times.

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) **FILE**

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Trump’s border streak continues with best November numbers ever

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Migrant farmworkers head to pick crops on an early morning in Fresno, Calif., on July 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

DHS slashes work permit term for migrants from 5 years to 18 months

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Texas state Sen. Pete Flores, R-Pleasanton, looks over a redrawn U.S. congressional map during debate over a bill in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Supreme Court restores Texas’ GOP-friendly congressional map

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Foreign Service employee Anne Bodine of Arlington, Va., demonstrates against potential layoffs at the State Department, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein).

Judge blocks Trump firings at State Department, says spending bill prohibits cuts right now

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Two women walk through a gate from Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Immigration officers arrest Harvard professor who fired BB gun outside synagogue

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Former Foreign Service employee Anne Bodine of Arlington, Va., demonstrates against potential layoffs at the State Department, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein).

Judge blocks Trump firings at State Department, says spending bill prohibits cuts right now

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Two women walk through a gate from Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Immigration officers arrest Harvard professor who fired BB gun outside synagogue

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

As Congress faces a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act subsidies, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., meet with reporters about health care affordability, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats opt for partisan vote on a 3-year extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies 50 minutes ago

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Cela Bratton Williams walks into the Workforce Solutions of North Central Texas office, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, in Plano, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Job cuts surpass 1.1M in 2025, highest level since COVID pandemic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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

By Kelly Sadler

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White House website rightly focuses on media malfeasance

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Conservatives, take note of Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes

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Qatar reinvents the Trojan horse with easily influenced ‘influencers’

By Dana Loesch

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Military personnel in uniforms with the Texas National Guard patch at the U.S. Army Reserve Center are seen, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in in Elwood, Ill, a suburb of Chicago. (AP Photo Erin Hooley)

Americans want U.S. to lead through powerful military but doubt armed forces can win: Survey

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to traveling journalists at the John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 12, 2025 after the G7 foreign ministers meeting. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Rubio stands by UFO remarks in ‘Age of Disclosure’ documentary 52 minutes ago

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This image released by Trinity Church NYC shows Ken Burns, left, and Lin-Manuel Miranda at a “Who tells your story?” event at the church in New York on Nov. 12, 2025. (Jose A. Alvarado/Trinity Church NYC via AP)

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

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, Thursday, May 6, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

The New York Times files federal lawsuit against the Pentagon’s new restrictive press policies

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U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley, accompanied by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, walks to a meeting with senators on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Top general defends ‘double-tap’ strike on drug boat as Democrat calls footage ‘troubling’

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. Residents of southern Ukraine, some whom spent the night on rooftops, braced for a second day of swelling floodwaters on Wednesday as authorities warned that a Dnieper River dam breach would continue to unleash pent-up waters from a giant reservoir. (AP Photo/Libkos) ** FILE **

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Power utility lines are seen, Oct. 6, 2021, in Pownal, Maine. Federal energy regulators on Monday, May 13, 2024, approved a long-awaited rule to expand the amount of renewable energy such as wind and solar power that is transmitted to the electric grid, a key part of President Joe Biden’s goal to decarbonize the economy by 2050. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

China threat to U.S. electric grid increases

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A U.S.-made Patriot missile is launched during an annual exercises in Ilan County, 49 miles west of Taipei, Taiwan, on July 20, 2006. Patriot missile systems have long been a hot ticket item for the U.S. and allies in contested areas of the world as a coveted shield against incoming missiles. In Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific, they guard against potential strikes from Iran, Somalia and North Korea. So it was a critical turning point when news broke this week that the U.S. has agreed to send a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine (AP Photo/File)

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Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, on Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) **FILE**

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A photo of National Guard member Specialist Sarah Beckstrom is displayed at a vigil held in her honor in Webster Springs, W.Va., Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (Rachel Isabell/The Daily Times via AP)

Trump orders U.S. flags lowered to half-staff in honor of slain National Guard soldier

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters during a meeting with the White House task force on the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025, in Washington, as FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and FIFA senior adviser Carlos Cordeiro listen. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s immigration message is colliding with his welcome to World Cup fans

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President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump signs peace and mineral deals with leaders of Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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As Congress faces a year-end deadline on Affordable Care Act subsidies, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., meet with reporters about health care affordability, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Former Foreign Service employee Anne Bodine of Arlington, Va., demonstrates against potential layoffs at the State Department, Friday, July 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein).

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Migrant farmworkers head to pick crops on an early morning in Fresno, Calif., on July 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

DHS slashes work permit term for migrants from 5 years to 18 months

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Mike Lindell walks into federal district court for a defamation trial on Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey) ** FILE **

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell files paperwork for Minnesota governor race

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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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A person walks through a parking lot at a shopping mall on Dec. 8, 2016 in King of Prussia, Pa. Many newer cars use wireless key fobs and push-button starters. The technology makes it more convenient to get into your vehicle, but it also makes things easier for thieves. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Runners eat their first burrito at a Taco Bell 50K in Alexandria, Virginia on Nov. 29, 2025. Hundreds of racers turned out for the ultramarathon, which combined a traditional race with the challenge of eating several Taco Bell menu items. (Liam Griffin/The Washington Times)

Big guts, bigger smiles: Taco Bell 50K draws hundreds for running, eating challenge

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Texas state Sen. Pete Flores, R-Pleasanton, looks over a redrawn U.S. congressional map during debate over a bill in the Senate Chamber at the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Supreme Court restores Texas’ GOP-friendly congressional map

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Two women walk through a gate from Harvard Yard at Harvard University, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Virginia twins indicted, accused of trying to destroy government databases

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A Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train car rides empty as it approaches the Forest Park, Ill., station Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024, in Forest Park. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Chicago man charged with attempted murder, accused of pushing senior citizen onto tracks

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U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley, accompanied by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, walks to a meeting with senators on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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FILE - New York Attorney General, Letitia James, speaks after pleading not guilty outside the United States District Court, on Oct. 24, 2025, in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/John Clark, File)

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Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nehls is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the bipartisan panel announced Tuesday, March 27, 2024. It did not specify the focus of the investigation, but Nehls said it was related to his campaign’s finances. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Prince William County Police block the street near the house where the FBI made an arrest, in Woodbridge, Va., Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in a nearly five-year old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Military personnel in uniforms with the Texas National Guard patch at the U.S. Army Reserve Center are seen, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in in Elwood, Ill, a suburb of Chicago. (AP Photo Erin Hooley)

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U.S. Navy Adm. Frank M. Bradley, accompanied by Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, walks to a meeting with senators on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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