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Pentagon urged to wage counterintelligence warfare against China, Russia

The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, as part of a global effort by Beijing to upgrade its intelligence capabilities. That's according to a Biden administration official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Foreign spy services from China, Russia and elsewhere are engaged in low-level warfare targeting the U.S., and American counterspies should be “operationalized” to defeat them, according to a counterintelligence adviser to the Pentagon.

Government shutdown continues after another failed Senate bid to pass stopgap funding

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

The Senate on Friday again failed to get 60 votes needed to override a filibuster on a stopgap spending bill to reopen the government, effectively allowing the shutdown to drag into next week since the chamber has no plans to remain in session this weekend.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Government shutdown continues after another failed Senate bid to pass stopgap funding

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Demonstrators march in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and an end to the ongoing war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to accept the ceasefire deal

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the third day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

America aims to keep air superiority in high-tech battle spaces

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Four killed as U.S. strikes another drug-smuggling speedboat off coast of Venezuela, Pentagon says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Russell Vought in contact with agencies about layoffs as shutdown continues, White House says

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Four killed as U.S. strikes another drug-smuggling speedboat off coast of Venezuela, Pentagon says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Russell Vought in contact with agencies about layoffs as shutdown continues, White House says

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Abrego Garcia. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be eligible for Obamacare subsidies

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Members of the Armed Forces, including the National Guard, patrol the subway system in Penn Station as police officers check commuters' bags in New York on Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) **FILE**

Trump restores transit security funding to New York after cutting it

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

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Trillion-dollar search giant Google admits it secretly censored conservatives for years

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and the carrot or the stick illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Needed: A peace plan that doesn’t reward Putin

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Partisan Justice Department going after political enemies illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

How the DOJ went after Trump’s allies

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California's Proposition 12 and the pork industry illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Big Ag’s propaganda can’t hide truth about California’s Proposition 12

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FILE — Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse, in New Brunswick, N.J., April 25, 1977.(AP Photo, File)

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Taylor Swift arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

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Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen greets state senators before giving a speech on June 2, 2025, in Lincoln, Neb. (Justin Wan/Lincoln Journal Star via AP, File)

Nebraska becomes the first state to adopt new federal school choice tax credit

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The Food and Drug Administration seal is seen at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed the creation of an EU-funded European Center for Democratic Resilience, an initiative that conservatives and right-wing populace warn could become a state-controlled speech police.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, sitting with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, third from right, and U.S. military senior leadership as they listen to President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025 in Quantico, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought walks at the White House in Washington on Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

OMB’s Vought is Grim Reaper in Trump video as layoffs loom

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Demonstrators march in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and an end to the ongoing war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to accept the ceasefire deal

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

FILE - Students walk past the "Great Dome" atop Building 10 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge, Mass, April 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

White House asks colleges to get on board with the Trump agenda

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump declares U.S. is at war with drug cartels

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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House Republicans delay return to Washington for another week as shutdown continues

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Trump restores transit security funding to New York after cutting it

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Government shutdown continues after another failed Senate bid to pass stopgap funding

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People protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

Trump considers cuts to Portland’s funding after arrest of conservative journalist

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Biden political opponents got stuck on TSA’s watchlist, audit finds

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Abrego Garcia. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be eligible for Obamacare subsidies

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A mechanized shovel loads coal from an 80-foot-thick seam into a haul truck at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek mine, Nov. 15, 2016, near Decker, Mont. Republicans in Congress say a Biden administration proposal on Thursday, May 16, 2024, to stop future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming could harm the industry. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) **FILE**

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A Ukrainian soldier gets ready to fire at Russian FPV drones in the town of Kostiantynivka, the site of heavy battles with Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)

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Over 1,000 silver and gold Spanish coins found in wreck off Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

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Team aims to find Amelia Earhart’s plane in Pacific nation of Kiribati

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

This still image from video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows crew members aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton after offloading illicit narcotics at Port Everglades, Fla., Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP) ** FILE **

Temporary relief available for Coast Guard personnel hurt by government shutdown

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Kainoa Kaku, president of the Hawaii Rifle Association, checks one of his personal firearms as he discusses a recent Supreme Court ruling while at his home, June, 23, 2022, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia, File)

Supreme Court to hear challenge to Hawaii’s concealed carry ban

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Hopes rise for North Korea breakthrough as Trump, Xi head to South Korea in October

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U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft F-35 performs aerobatic maneuvers on the third day of the Aero India 2025, a biennial event, at Yelahanka air base in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

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Demonstrators march in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and an end to the ongoing war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Trump gives Hamas until Sunday to accept the ceasefire deal

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Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, takes questions from the media at a press briefing in New York, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Police arrest multiple Israelis accused of spying for Iran

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Dingler, Perez lead Tigers past Guardians and into the AL Division Series against Mariners

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Paul Toboni, the Washington Nationals' new president of baseball operations, speaks to reporters after his introductory news conference at Nationals Park in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Howard Fendrich)

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The practice court at the University of Maryland's new Barry P. Gossett Basketball Performance Center in College Park, Maryland. The 45,000 square foot building cost $52 million and took just more than two years to build. (George Gerbo/The Washington Times)

‘A dream come true’: Maryland’s long-awaited basketball practice facility finally becomes a reality

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Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels celebrates with Bobby Wagner (54) after an NFL football divisional playoff game against the Detroit Lions, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Rey Del Rio)

Commanders’ Daniels, Wagner ready to feel California love during game against Chargers

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Little remained of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chapel the day after a former Marine opened fire and set the building ablaze in Grand Blanc Township, Mich., Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

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