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U.S. to enter annual U.N. General Assembly 81 during consequential year in foreign policy

The U.N. flag flies on a stormy day at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times 40 minutes ago

The U.S. is entering the High-Level Week of the annual United Nations General Assembly under starkly different circumstances than last year.

Trump asks public how AI should be rebranded

Christina Speasmaker of Waco yells a chant as advocacy groups and community members protest laws surrounding data centers while outside the Texas Capitol, in Austi, Texas, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

President Trump said he thinks artificial intelligence’s low popularity could be fixed by a name change.

Christina Speasmaker of Waco yells a chant as advocacy groups and community members protest laws surrounding data centers while outside the Texas Capitol, in Austi, Texas, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Trump asks public how AI should be rebranded

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Tech titans to flank Trump, Xi at White House state dinner next week 51 minutes ago

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Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, questions Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Secretary of State, as he appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

GOP senator says Russian oligarch paying for Trump wedding weekend is ‘corruption’

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

A plane lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Federal Aviation Administration to deploy AI at Washington-area airports

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A TV screen shows a file image of a North Korean missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea launches multiple ballistic missiles

By John T. Seward - The Washington Times

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A plane lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Federal Aviation Administration to deploy AI at Washington-area airports

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A TV screen shows a file image of a North Korean missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea launches multiple ballistic missiles

By John T. Seward - The Washington Times

China's President Xi Jinping, right, and Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Photo via AP)

Iran war revives U.S. energy bet in Mozambique despite Islamic State threat

By Joseph Hammond - The Washington Times

A man holding an Iranian flag peers through an opening in a curtain during the state-organized “Janfada,” or “Sacrifice for Iran,” military-style parade in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump weighs massive strike amid rebel military pressure on Gulf region oil

By Susan Ferrechio and John T. Seward - The Washington Times

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Democrats bet on AI apocalypse politics for the midterms

By Robert Knight

FILE - State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, greets supporters at a primary election watch party in Austin, Texas, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

James Talarico should be saying “Thank God for the Bible”

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Suspend the ethanol mandate in gasoline illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What’s more important than the price of gasoline?

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Yom Kippur in the United States of America illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

On Yom Kippur, America needs atonement

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Congress must end fraud now

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Ed Sheeran delays start time of Philadelphia concert amid Macklemore fallout

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Actress Lynda Carter speaks to the crowd as they rally against the closing of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Washington. ( (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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Thousands join protest outside Kennedy Center, expressing concern that Trump might tear it down

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A sculpture of the "Star Wars" character Yoda is displayed along a walking path in the garden area of the the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art during a preview of the museum on Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches mid-interview, speaks Chinese

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The image from video provided by the Department of Defense shows an unexplained object as it is tracked high in the clouds, traveling against the wind. There's a whole fleet of them, one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. It's rotating." The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and an official report was released in June 2021. (Department of Defense via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon: Military reports recent sightings of UFOs in Mideast

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, stand as Air Force aircraft perform a flyover during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

AI to help hunt for missing Americans from conflicts

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday Sept. 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says U.S. has reached security deal with Denmark over Greenland

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Commercial vessels anchored amid haze in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Monday, Sept. 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) **FILE**

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks during an announcement of a lawsuit filed by New York and 21 other states challenging the federal government's new public charge rule, on Monday, Sept. 14, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Ryan Murphy)

Trump to meet with Mamdani on Monday in New York City

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A sign directs people away from the Kennedy Center, which has been fenced off and closed to the public, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump asks court to allow Kennedy Center’s closure for renovations

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, left, participates in a welcome ceremony with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People, May 14, 2026, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Trump will greet Xi at the airport when China’s leader arrives for his U.S. state visit

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President Donald Trump holds up a printout of a Breitbart article as Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, from left, Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., look on during an event about healthcare in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday Sept. 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump bans CNN, MSNOW, Politico from White House for their ‘fake news’

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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President Donald Trump, left, speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. listens during a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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WATCH: Midterms could dictate fate of MAHA

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Vice President JD Vance speaks during a Republican National Committee's Midterm Rally at the Mid-America Center, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool Photo via AP)

Vance stumps in Iowa as GOP faces close races in unlikely places

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Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., speaks at a Republican campaign rally in West Miami, Fla., Oct. 19, 2022. More than half of the residents in the slice of Miami that includes Little Havana were born abroad. And when Salazar ran for reelection in 2022, she won by 15 percentage points. The GOP's dominance of Florida's 27th congressional district is emblematic of the party's inroads with Latino voters in recent years in much of the U.S. and especially in Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Florida GOP congresswoman scolds Trump on immigration in stunning campaign ad

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Nicholas Burns prepares his table at Bridgepointe Church during an event Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Liberal voter groups scramble as donors pull back weeks before midterms

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CNN Senior White House Reporter Betsy Klein, right, departs after having her credential revoked following President Donald Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, at the White House, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republicans back Trump’s ban of liberal news outlets

By Susan Ferrechio and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

People arrive for immigration court hearings in New York, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

GOP lawmaker who posted anti-deportation ad says Trump was ‘very receptive’ during phone call 32 minutes ago

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

A mockup of President Donald Trump's proposed triumphal arch stands at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, June 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck, File)

Trump announces Triumphal Arch will serve as ‘military complex’

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers speaks at Universal Contracting and Urban Tree Trimming, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in Sterling Heights, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Michigan’s Mike Rogers acknowledges high costs and promises to work with the president

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, stand as Air Force aircraft perform a flyover during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

AI to help hunt for missing Americans from conflicts

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Documents that were included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files are photographed on Jan. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) **FILE**

Florida woman admits to scamming $750,000 from Epstein victims fund

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Fencing is installed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Armed National Guard soldiers from West Virginia patrol the Mall near the Capitol in Washington, as part of President Donald Trump's order to impose federal law enforcement in the nation's capital, on Aug. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Is empathy a virtue or a weakness? Vance, Musk and others say it’s gone too far

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A plane lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., Dec. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Federal Aviation Administration to deploy AI at Washington-area airports

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Attorney General William P. Barr speaks during a news conference in Washington on Dec. 21, 2020. Barr has a memoir out in March, titled “One Damn Thing After Another” and is billed by his publisher as a “vivid and forthright book” of his time serving two “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Former AG Barr blasts Boulder’s climate case against energy firms ‘voodoo’ litigation

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This Feb. 21, 2020 photo shows boneless chicken after it was poached in Amagansett, N.Y. You can poach your boneless, skinless chicken breasts and they will be juicy, flavorful, plump and tender. (Elizabeth Karmel via AP)

Federal task force busts 13 in $250,000 Memphis chicken heist

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at the Republican convention in Dallas on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

Texas shuts down company that coached Chinese on birthright citizenship

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A TV screen shows a file image of a North Korean missile launch during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea launches multiple ballistic missiles

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FILE - Cranes load a cargo ship at Panama Canal's Port of Balboa, managed by CK Hutchison Holdings, in Panama City, on Jan. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

China seeking extradition of national from Panama in battle over canal ports

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

China's President Xi Jinping, right, and Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo attend a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (Haruna Furuhashi/Pool Photo via AP)

Iran war revives U.S. energy bet in Mozambique despite Islamic State threat

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A man holding an Iranian flag peers through an opening in a curtain during the state-organized “Janfada,” or “Sacrifice for Iran,” military-style parade in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Trump weighs massive strike amid rebel military pressure on Gulf region oil

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BYU players leave the locker room for the first half of an NCAA college football game agianst Colorado State Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, in Fort Collins, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado State issues apology after anti-Mormon chants taint football game against BYU

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Maryland falls flat under the spotlight in 35-26 loss to Virginia Tech

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LSU head coach Lane Kiffin walks on the field before an NCAA college football game against Louisiana Tech, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026 in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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