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GOP aims to pass crypto oversight bill vs. Dem hurdles

An advertisement for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is displayed on a building in Hong Kong on Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

Congress’ efforts to pass a major cryptocurrency bill before the midterms face a major test this month.

Judge boots Trump ‘loyalty’ question from civil service job applications

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he is welcomed by Ireland's President Catherine Connolly at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A federal judge issued a stay forbidding the administration from asking those seeking jobs in the federal government to say how they would help carry out presidential executive orders, in what had been seen as a test of “loyalty” to President Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he is welcomed by Ireland's President Catherine Connolly at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Judge boots Trump ‘loyalty’ question from civil service job applications

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Thomas Kean Jr., GOP candidate for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, speaks at his election night party held in Basking Ridge N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

GOP candidates turn up the volume on lower health insurance costs

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting at Farmleigh House in Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

On Irish soil, Trump says unified Ireland would be ‘a great feather in everybody’s cap’

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

In this May 8, 2008, photo, blank U.S. Treasury checks are seen on a roll at the Philadelphia Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Where would $1.2 trillion for Trump’s $5,000 checks come from? Not taxes, Lutnick says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office said it's looking to arrest Elpidio Reyna, 40, of Compton on charges of assaulting a police officer. (Image: FBI) ** FILE **

Anti-ICE rioter caught on video hurling rocks at agents gets 3-year prison sentence

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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In this May 8, 2008, photo, blank U.S. Treasury checks are seen on a roll at the Philadelphia Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Where would $1.2 trillion for Trump’s $5,000 checks come from? Not taxes, Lutnick says

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office said it's looking to arrest Elpidio Reyna, 40, of Compton on charges of assaulting a police officer. (Image: FBI) ** FILE **

Anti-ICE rioter caught on video hurling rocks at agents gets 3-year prison sentence

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani participate in a memorial on the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

Mamdani, AOC draw heat for laughing at 9/11 memorial

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

D. John Sauer, then-special assistant attorney general with the Louisiana Department of Justice, testifies during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Supreme Court erases major immigration detention case from its docket

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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An advertisement for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is displayed on a building in Hong Kong on Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Clarity on crypto is a test America cannot fail

By Craig Stevens

Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk arrives to speak before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Why Charlie Kirk is the hero America needed

By Billy Hallowell

Artificial intelligence (AI) exterminating the human race illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Will AI destroy the human race by the end of the decade?

By Kelly Sadler

Democrats lie to voters illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Case studies of how Democrats lie to voters: Osborn in Nebraska and Dembo in Kentucky

By Tim Murtaugh

9/11 attacks on the United States of America and Iran illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The 9/11 Commission told Washington to investigate Iran’s role

By Janice Kephart

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In Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 file photo, singer Pink poses for photographers upon arrival at the Brit Awards in London. U.S. pop singer Pink has offered to pay a fine given to the Norwegian female beach handball team for wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms. Pink said she was “very proud” of the team for protesting against the rule that prevented them from wearing shorts like their male counterparts. At the European Beach Handball Championships in Bulgaria last week, Norway’s female team was fined 1,500 euros ($1,770) for what the European federation called improper clothing and “a breach of clothing regulations.” (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)

Pink says Macklemore’s onstage remarks, not ‘Free Palestine,’ prompted her post

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Queen Elizabeth II toast, during the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, in London, Monday, June 3, 2019. Trump is on a three-day state visit to Britain. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump’s Scottish heritage fueled his love for Queen Elizabeth, daughter-in-law Lara says

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FOX Business Network's Mornings with Maria show anchor Maria Bartiromo, speaks during an interview, June 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Maria Bartiromo breaks silence on Fox exit, teases ‘more to come’

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Gayle King arrives at the 53rd International Emmy Awards at the New York Hilton Midtown on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

CBS’ Gayle King draws backlash over reaction to Black holdout juror in Clancy case

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Anthropic reveals China’s military used its AI to build weapons for use against U.S.

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Yemen's Houthi rebels march during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo)

Iran-backed Houthis grab more territory on Yemen’s western coast

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), walk as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen in the background in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 28, 2012. On the ground, NATO has helped to keep peace in the Balkans and combat the Taliban-led insurgency in war-torn Afghanistan, the alliance's biggest ever operation, launched after the United States triggered its "all for one and one for all" common defense clause in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi) **FILE**

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Residents and rescue workers on Thursday, July 2, 2026, search through the rubble of buildings damaged in the earthquakes that struck La Guaira, Venezuela, days earlier. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) **FILE**

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Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin, left, shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting at Farmleigh House in Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

On Irish soil, Trump says unified Ireland would be ‘a great feather in everybody’s cap’

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

The boyhood home of President Trump is seen on Jan. 17, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Trump’s childhood home sells for $2 million

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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Queen Elizabeth II toast, during the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace, in London, Monday, June 3, 2019. Trump is on a three-day state visit to Britain. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump’s Scottish heritage fueled his love for Queen Elizabeth, daughter-in-law Lara says

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

People visiting the Smithsonian Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais,File)

Trump wants the Smithsonian Institution to install George Washington statues and exhibit

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Thomas Kean Jr., GOP candidate for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, speaks at his election night party held in Basking Ridge N.J., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

GOP candidates turn up the volume on lower health insurance costs

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden rides his motorcycle in a Labor Day parade with his grandsons, Teddy and Henry, Monday, Sept. 7, 2026, in Readstown, Wis. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

Trump ally in Wisconsin sticks close to the president as Democrats push to flip swing district

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Vice President J.D. Vance speaks at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Republicans get preview of 2028 in Vance speech

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Republican convention Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ted Cruz: Midterms are a ‘time for choosing’ after extremists take over Democratic Party

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani participate in a memorial on the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

Mamdani, AOC draw heat for laughing at 9/11 memorial

By George Caldwell - The Washington Times

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he is welcomed by Ireland's President Catherine Connolly at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Judge boots Trump ‘loyalty’ question from civil service job applications

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

D. John Sauer, then-special assistant attorney general with the Louisiana Department of Justice, testifies during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on what Republicans say is the politicization of the FBI and Justice Department and attacks on American civil liberties on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Supreme Court erases major immigration detention case from its docket

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Bessent tells Carney to stop yapping and start governing

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

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One of five memorial quilts made by Freedom Quilts, founded by Betty Nielson, a U.S. Air Force veteran. The organization creates quilts for family members of 9/11 victims and those killed in the post-9/11 wars. (Juliet La Sala/The Washington Times)

New 9/11 museum exhibit ‘In Their Honor’ focuses on grief-driven dedication and action

By Juliet La Sala - The Washington Times

Albuquerque residents Michael Caldwell, left, and his wife, Natasha Caldwell, attend a Second Amendment Protest in response to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's recent public health order suspending the conceal and open carry of guns in and around Albuquerque for 30 days, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Natasha said, "We came to stand for the Constitution and out of anger about what's happening with this health order." Restrictions on carrying guns in public that are tied to an emergency public health order are going under the legal microscope on Tuesday, Oct. 3, in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales) **FILE**

The FBI says 16 shooters were stopped by civilians. One researcher counts 225

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Travelers walk through TSA security lines at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston on March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) **FILE**

America backslides on Sept. 11’s hard lessons about IDs, intel agencies and ports of entry

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

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Michael Pese and his wife Tupe Smith stand outside the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage, Alaska, on Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Alaska drops voter misconduct cases against American Samoans who wrongly checked ‘U.S. citizen’ box

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A gavel is shown against a backdrop of law books in this undated stock photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Former bank manager in Kentucky pleads guilty to stealing from customers

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Christy Spivey poses with a portrait of her late daughter Tasia Fortune, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, in Marion, Ky. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Police say more arrests coming in death of Mississippi woman found hanging from tree

By Jaimie Ding and Kristin Hall and Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., attend an observance, Friday, Sept.11, 2026, as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Flight 93 remembered 25 years later: ‘They fought the first battle of the long war, and they won it’

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

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Yemeni civilians celebrate while riding in the back of a pickup truck in the Bani Matar district, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, as they follow a convoy carrying Houthi prisoners freed in Mokha on its way to Sanaa following the Houthi takeover of the southern Red Sea port city. (AP Photo/STR)

Attack that closed key Saudi pipeline is blamed on Iran-backed militias in Iraq

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In this handout provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, rescuers transfer the remains of victims of the recent fire on the MV June Aster ferry on Friday Sept. 11, 2026 off Coron, Palawan province, western Philippines. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Rescuers pull more bodies from burned Philippine ferry as death toll hits 76

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A civilian walks by after a gas station was hit by a Russian drone in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

5 killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine as Putin warns Europe against sending troops

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for a photo during an official welcome ceremony of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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The Washington Monument is seen beyond the East Potomac Park Golf Course, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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Senegalese basketball legend Mame Maty Mbengue lights a torch from the cauldron during a ceremony ahead of the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games, in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

Olympic flame arrives in Senegal for the first Olympic event to be held in Africa

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Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli throws during the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Nationals score three in 8th, rally for win over Angels to snap their seven-game skid

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Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels (5) works out during the team's NFL football joint training camp with the Baltimore Ravens, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, at the Under Armour Performance Center in Owings Mills, Md. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) ** FILE **

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Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk arrives to speak before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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