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President Joe Biden delivers an update on the COVID-19 response and vaccination program, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Republican attorneys general are advising their state residents that President Biden’s federal mandate for coronavirus vaccinations is not yet in effect — but once it does become reality, they’ll challenge it in the courts.

President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony, honoring fallen law enforcement officers at the 40th annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘I know you’: Biden aims to connect with police through personal tragedy

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First lady Jill Biden, right, gets a hug from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe during a rally in Richmond, Va., Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. McAuliffe will face Republican Glenn Youngkin in the November election. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Jill Biden stumps for Terry McAuliffe in campaign homestretch, touts husband’s agenda

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this June 25, 2018, file photo, pro-life and anti-abortion advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Republican lawmakers in at least a half dozen GOP-controlled states already are talking about copying a Texas law that bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. The law was written in a way that was intended to avoid running afoul of federal law by allowing enforcement by private citizens, not government officials. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Pro-life, pro-choice groups go head-to-head to turn out voters in 2022

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DOJ pushes back on Biden’s call to prosecute those who defy Jan. 6 subpoenas

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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Robert Durst, seated with attorney Dick DeGuerin, is sentenced to life without possibility of parole for the killing of Susan Berman Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021 at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles. New York real estate heir Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without chance of parole for the murder of his best friend more that two decades ago. (Myung J. Chung/Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)

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In this Feb. 24, 2020 file photo, former "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett leaves the Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago. A judge on Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, denied a last-ditch effort to dismiss a criminal case against actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying to police when he reported that two masked men attacked him in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)

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This image, provided by Christie's, shows Vincent van Gogh's 1888 work &quot;Wheatstacks,&quot; to be offered in the dedicated sale &quot;The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism,&quot; in New York, Nov. 11, 2021. The watercolor, seized by the Nazis during World War II is estimated at $20-million to $30-million. (Christie's via AP)

Van Gogh artwork looted by Nazis to be auctioned in New York

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In this Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, photo. flowers lie on a concrete slab of the Holocaust Memorial to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) **FILE**

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President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony, honoring fallen law enforcement officers at the 40th annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘I know you’: Biden aims to connect with police through personal tragedy

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In this file photo, President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony to honor slain U.S. Capitol Police officer William "Billy" Evans as he lies in honor at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. President Biden’s relationship with America’s law enforcement community has gone from bad to worse in the eight months that he has occupied the Oval Office, according to veteran police officers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) **FILE**

‘Disgusted’: Biden’s support from police has disintegrated in just under nine months

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on the South Lawn upon arrival at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

DOJ pushes back on Biden’s call to prosecute those who defy Jan. 6 subpoenas

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President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One at Bradley International Airport, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, in Windsor Locks, Conn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says he doesn’t support term limits for Supreme Court justices

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In this June 22, 2021, file photo, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., leaves a closed-door bipartisan infrastructure meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sinema says activists who confronted her outside an Arizona State University classroom and filmed her inside a restroom were not engaging in what she called a legitimate protest. The Democratic senator said in a statement Monday, Oct. 4, 2021, that the activists unlawfully entered the suburban Phoenix campus building, which was closed to the public. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Groups behind Primary Sinema super PAC bankrolled by George Soros

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First lady Jill Biden, right, gets a hug from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe during a rally in Richmond, Va., Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. McAuliffe will face Republican Glenn Youngkin in the November election. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Jill Biden stumps for Terry McAuliffe in campaign homestretch, touts husband’s agenda

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes questions from reporters about the politics surrounding the debt limit vote this week, and about the way forward on on President Joe Biden's domestic agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sanders, Manchin spar in West Virginia over $3.5 trillion spending bill

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., during Paid Leave for All rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Pelosi, Schumer watch support nose-dive among Black, Hispanic voters

By Kery Murakami - The Washington Times

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his "Build Back Better" agenda during a visit to the International Union Of Operating Engineers Local 324, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Howell, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Flurry of strikes challenges economy, poses political test for Biden

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In this Sept. 9, 2021, photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland announces a lawsuit to block the enforcement of a new Texas law that bans most abortions, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Garland blasted for unleashing FBI on school board squabbles

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this May 25, 2021, file photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks with the media outside of the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami. Federal immigration agents will stop making mass worksite arrest of immigrants employees suspected of living in the U.S. without legal permission. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued guidance Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, saying the agency would cease such targeted enforcement which has "not focused on the most pernicious aspect of our country's unauthorized employment challenge: exploitative employers." (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

EXCLUSIVE: DHS drafts plan to allow fraudsters to keep citizenship

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Harris County Medical Examiner van exits the Memorial Hermann Hospital transporting a Harris County Pct. 4 deputy who was shot and killed to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, in Houston. Three constable deputies were shot in an ambush early Saturday morning while working an extra shift at a Houston bar. Authorities took one person into custody but were still searching for a man believed to be the shooter, Houston Police Executive Assistant Chief James Jones told reporters. (Marie D. De Jesús/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Police: 1 deputy killed, 2 wounded in ambush at Houston bar

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In this file photo, containers are stacked at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach in Calif., Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. With ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach severely backlogged, officials with the Port of New Orleans see an opportunity to benefit from redirected traffic to their facilities as the U.S. faces heavy container-ship backlogs. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Port of New Orleans looks to snag business from backlogged competitors

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Screen capture taken Oct. 15, 2021, from the website for the Loudoun County (Va.) Public Schools (https://www.lcps.org/)

Loudoun County School Board member who sparked parents’ protest resigns

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In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump breach the Capitol in Washington. Like many Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Dona Sue Bissey has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory on social media. But the judge sentencing her Tuesday to 14 days in jail said it was for her actions, not her beliefs. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Capitol Police officer indicted for helping rioter hide evidence linked to Jan. 6

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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid watches from the sidelines during the first half of an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Crackdown on taunting is working the way the NFL intended

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Washington Football Team wide receiver Terry McLaurin runs a route against the New Orleans Saints in the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Curtis Samuel, Sam Cosmi out, Terry McLaurin pops up with hamstring injury

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Maryland head coach Michael Locksley looks up to the scoreboard during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Illinois in Champaign, Ill., in this Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, photo. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) **FILE**

For Maryland, halfway point provides break, chance to define rest of season

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Washington Football Team quarterback Taylor Heinicke looks for a receiver in the second half of an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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