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Trump urges Brett Kavanaugh libel lawsuits after new allegations surface

In this Oct. 8, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands before a ceremonial swearing-in in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Trump on Sunday suggested Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh begin suing for libel after issues with the FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against him resurfaced.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing on the North Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kellyanne Conway: U.S. ‘ready’ to tap into strategic petroleum reserve after Saudi oil attacks 47 minutes ago

By Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

In this July 24, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, speaks during a candidates forum at the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Fellow Democrat says Beto O’Rourke’s call for mandatory gun buybacks ‘doesn’t help’ 56 minutes ago

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as Federal Aviation Administration Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt, and Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel appear before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Ted Cruz: Congress ‘absolutely’ needs to do more on gun safety

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything — except health care

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In this Oct. 8, 2015 photograph, the American and Mississippi state flags fly on a flag pole outside the City Hall in McComb, Miss. It&#8217;s a divisive issue that makes politicians squirm: Should Mississippi remove a Confederate battle emblem from its state flag, or stick with the banner it has flown since Reconstruction? (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

City employees claim black officials fired them for being white

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Tomi Lahren apologizes after Julian Castro calls out her ‘disgusting, anti-immigrant rhetoric’

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Liberty students protest in wake of reports about Jerry Falwell Jr.

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Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, left, and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, right, take the stage Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Ted Cruz reminds PolitiFact of prior ‘False’ ruling on ‘Beto wants to take our guns’ claim

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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks to members of the media outside the West Wing on the North Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kellyanne Conway: U.S. ‘ready’ to tap into strategic petroleum reserve after Saudi oil attacks 45 minutes ago

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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway speaks with reporters outside the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Kellyanne Conway: Trump weighing Rouhani meeting after Saudi oil attacks

By Lauren Meier - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 8, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh stands before a ceremonial swearing-in in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Trump urges Brett Kavanaugh libel lawsuits after new allegations surface

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Groups sue to block Trump’s order for citizenship data collection

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Marianne Williamson talks to reporters after the first of two Democratic presidential primary debates hosted by CNN Tuesday, July 30, 2019, in the Fox Theatre in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Marianne Williamson buzz doesn’t translate to support: ‘Some of it is my own failure’

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything — except health care

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Tomi Lahren seen at Politicon 2016 at The Pasadena Convention Center on Saturday, June 25, 2016, in Pasadena, CA. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Tomi Lahren apologizes after Julian Castro calls out her ‘disgusting, anti-immigrant rhetoric’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media following a visit with students on the campus of Texas Southern University Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Biden says he will release medical records before primaries

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Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump after his call for the four Democratic congresswomen to go back to their "broken" countries, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, July 15, 2019. All are American citizens and three of the four were born in the U.S. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ilhan Omar responds to 9/11 criticism

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In this July 24, 2019, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, speaks during a candidates forum at the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

Fellow Democrat says Beto O’Rourke’s call for mandatory gun buybacks ‘doesn’t help’ 56 minutes ago

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Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as Federal Aviation Administration Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt, and Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel appear before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Ted Cruz: Congress ‘absolutely’ needs to do more on gun safety

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this July 23, 2019, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom gives a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California Gov. Gavin Newsom to buck Democrats, veto environmental bill

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Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis) ** FILE **

Bannon thrives behind the scenes: ‘Other than the president, he is the head of the MAGA movement’

By James Varney - The Washington Times

The U.S. military is feverishly working to incorporate AI into its operations in a myriad of ways, including drones and robots to ferry wounded soldiers away the battlefield, software that can spot a hidden enemy force over a hill, AI programs that can give generals and line soldiers a fuller picture of a confusing battle, and even algorithms that can outperform any resume in determining the right men and women for a specific job. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. Army banks on artificial intelligence to beat China and Russia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 9, 2019, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Montana Gov. Steve Bullock speaks at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. As a Democratic politician in deep-red Montana, Bullock has long searched for a middle ground on guns. Now a presidential candidate in a party pushing hard for new gun-control laws, he still is. (AP Photo/John Locher)

‘Workhorses instead of show horses’: Democratic governors find experience pitch no longer sells

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Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's first appointee to the high court, speaks to The Associated Press about events that have influenced his life and the loss of civility in public discourse, in his chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Gorsuch has written a new book on the importance of civics and civility, and a defense of his preferred originalism method of interpreting laws and the Constitution. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Justice Gorsuch on SCOTUS: ‘We’re fallible, we’re not perfect’

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FILE - In this April 30, 2015, file photo, United Auto Workers line worker Michelle Albritton loads stamped wheel housings at the General Motors Pontiac Metal Center in Pontiac, Mich. United Auto Workers union has reached a tentative contract agreement with Ford on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015, a sign that union leaders expect General Motors workers to approve a similar four-year deal. Voting at GM plants was scheduled to end Friday evening. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

United Auto Workers at GM plants to strike Sunday night, union says

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After acrimony, Georgia city closes its police department

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This image made from a Dec. 1, 2015, video provided by WNDU-TV shows Ulrich Klopfer in South Bend, Ind. More than 2,200 medically preserved fetal remains have been found at the Illinois home of the former Indiana abortion clinic doctor who died last week. (WNDU-TV via AP)

More than 2,000 preserved fetal remains found at abortion doctor’s home

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This file booking photo provided by the Weber County Sheriff's Office shows Aaron Shamo. Shamo was convicted of running a multimillion-dollar fentanyl trafficking empire from his basement in suburban Salt Lake City. The case prosecutors brought against him reveals the ease with which the powerful opioid drug that has killed tens of thousands of people now moves around the world. (Weber County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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Washington Redskins' Quinton Dunbar walks off the field after an injury during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Quinton Dunbar out vs. Cowboys

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FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2018, file photo, Washington Redskins offensive tackle Trent Williams is shown on the sideline during the second half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in Tampa, Fla. Williams did not report to training camp Thursday, July 25, 2019, amid a contract dispute. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) ** FILE **

Trent Williams facing over $1 million in fines: report 44 minutes ago

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Atlanta Braves Ronald Acuna Jr., center, is congratulated by teammate Freddie Freeman, right, after scoring a run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Braves clinch playoff spot with another win over Nationals

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Washington Capitals center Evgeny Kuznetsov (92), of Russia, reaches for the puck against New York Rangers center Mika Zibanejad (93) during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) ** FILE **

Evgeny Kuznetsov suspended three games by NHL over cocaine test

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