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Chinese gift of diamond to Hunter Biden spurs contradictory stories from Biden clan

Hunter Biden departs after a closed-door private deposition with House committees leading the President Biden impeachment inquiry, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

President Biden’s younger brother, James Biden, told House investigators that he tossed in the garbage a diamond ring that was a gift to his nephew, Hunter Biden, from a Chinese energy firm.

House panel releases 5,000 additional hours of Jan. 6 footage

This exhibit from video released by the House Select Committee, shows an image from police-worn body camera of rioters at the Capitol on Jan 6, displayed at a hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, July 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to give Fox News' Tucker Carlson "exclusive" access to Jan. 6 security footage of the Capitol attack, despite the conservative commentator's own work raising false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot over Joe Biden's election. (House Select Committee via AP)

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Barry Loudermilk on Friday announced the release of 5,000 hours of footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest.

This exhibit from video released by the House Select Committee, shows an image from police-worn body camera of rioters at the Capitol on Jan 6, displayed at a hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, July 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is defending his decision to give Fox News' Tucker Carlson "exclusive" access to Jan. 6 security footage of the Capitol attack, despite the conservative commentator's own work raising false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2021 riot over Joe Biden's election. (House Select Committee via AP)

House panel releases 5,000 additional hours of Jan. 6 footage

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., followed by reporters, leaves the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023, after withdrawing as Republican nominee for House speaker, becoming the third candidate to fall short. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

House Majority Whip Emmer calls border ‘Joe Biden’s crime scene’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Congress hopes to finish spending fight, but problems linger

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Kinga Gebauer holds a sign in front of the Walgreens corporate headquarters during a protest over plan to sell abortion pills at Walgreens Deerfield Headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Supreme Court’s abortion pill battle is about safety — not abortion access, say pro-life litigants

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he delivers his state-of-the-nation address in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia’s defense industry will keep growing this year, say U.K. analysts

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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Kinga Gebauer holds a sign in front of the Walgreens corporate headquarters during a protest over plan to sell abortion pills at Walgreens Deerfield Headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Supreme Court’s abortion pill battle is about safety — not abortion access, say pro-life litigants

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he delivers his state-of-the-nation address in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia’s defense industry will keep growing this year, say U.K. analysts

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Trump puts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on the VP shortlist

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Violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Appeals court rules Jan. 6 defendant’s sentence unlawfully enhanced

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Biden’s media allies shield him from ramifications of his border policy

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Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Attorney generals in 20 conservative-led states warned CVS and Walgreens on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, that they could face legal consequences if they sell abortion pills by mail in those states. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Biden hails CVS/Walgreens decision to dispense abortion pill

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

McKenna Shuster works on a linocut art print which she does as a hobby in her home on the last night of a two-week self-isolation while recovering from symptoms of COVID-19 in Somerville, Mass., on March 26, 2020. On Friday, March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days. The CDC changed its longstanding guidance, saying that people can return to work or regular activities if their symptoms are mild and improving and it's been a day since they've had a fever. (AP Photo/David Goldman) **FILE**

CDC drops five-day quarantine period for those who have COVID

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Rep. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach Rep. asks a question in the Florida House of Representatives, May 25, 2022 at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. Florida is on the verge of passing one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parent approval. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Grall. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)

Florida lawmakers prepare for Gov. DeSantis to veto a social media ban on children under 16

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A worker prepares a pathway on Parliament Hill following a snow fall, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023., in Ottawa, Ontario. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian measure would remove free speech protection for quoting Bible, sacred texts

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

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How the Biden administration is quietly punishing Israel

By Shoshana Bryen

Hunter Biden, left, son of President Joe Biden, arrives with attorney Abbe Lowell at the O'Neill House Office Building for a closed-door deposition in a Republican-led investigation into the Biden family, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Lawmakers from the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Judiciary Committee are conducting the inquiry. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Biden’s Afghanistan problem: The pivotal moment where he lost Americans’ trust

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Biden's dangerous border policy and illegal immigration illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s media allies shield him from ramifications of his border policy

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Japan's former Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno attends a political ethics committee at parliament in Tokyo Friday, March 1, 2024. Two former Cabinet ministers belonging to Japan’s governing party’s key faction behind a major corruption scandal that has rocked the government renewed denial they had any role in running slush funds at a political ethics hearing Friday, a day after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s appearance that gave no new details, deepening speculation that the party just wants to get it over with and rush the passage of a budget bill. (Japan Pool/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan opposition lawmakers bring no-confidence motion accusing gov’t of halting debate over scandal

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Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

House panel grills Defense Secretary Austin over secret hospital stay

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on threats to the homeland, Oct. 31, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As Republicans in the House of Representatives threaten to make Mayorkas the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years, Mayorkas says, in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, he is “totally focused on the work" that his agency of 260,000 people conducts and not distracted by the politics of impeachment. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Mayorkas gets subpoena over DHS interference with Texas border-security efforts

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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a Republican campaign event, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Battered, bruised but unbowed: Haley looks for a Super Tuesday miracle

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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Falls Church, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Nikki Haley says she’s not ‘anti-Trump,’ she’s just pro-America

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, after traveling to Brownsville, Texas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s latest confusion: Mixes up Ukraine and Gaza

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol dome is seen, Monday, July 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

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Kinga Gebauer holds a sign in front of the Walgreens corporate headquarters during a protest over plan to sell abortion pills at Walgreens Deerfield Headquarters in Deerfield, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. One year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded a five-decade-old right to abortion, prompting a seismic shift in debates about politics, values, freedom and fairness. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

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This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Timothee Chalamet, foreground left, and Austin Butler in a scene from "Dune: Part Two." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures after waving to people across the Rio Grande in Mexico at Shelby Park during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Former baseball player Steve Garvey speaks during a televised debate for candidates in the senate race on Jan. 22, 2024, in Los Angeles. California’s U.S. Senate race was expected to be a three-way Democratic prizefight. But the possibility of record-low turnout is elevating Garvey's chances to advance to the general election in November. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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President Joe Biden speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and then on to Chicago. Biden has started using a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine at night to help with sleep apnea, the White House said Wednesday after indents from the mask were visible on his face. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens at a campaign event in Concord, N.H., Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Drunk passengers prompt flight from London to Newark to be diverted to Maine

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McKenna Shuster works on a linocut art print which she does as a hobby in her home on the last night of a two-week self-isolation while recovering from symptoms of COVID-19 in Somerville, Mass., on March 26, 2020. On Friday, March 1, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said people who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days. The CDC changed its longstanding guidance, saying that people can return to work or regular activities if their symptoms are mild and improving and it's been a day since they've had a fever. (AP Photo/David Goldman) **FILE**

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