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Chinese destroyer tests U.S. nerves in Taiwan Strait

Ships move through the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

In an apparent intimidation tactic, a Chinese destroyer twice crossed the bow of a U.S. Navy destroyer at high speed as the latter transited the Taiwan Strait, provoking an angry response.

McCarthy ally says speakership ‘absolutely safe’ despite conservative fury over debt limit

Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., flanked by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A top House Republican negotiator and ally to Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Sunday he believes hardliners in the conference will not oust the speaker despite conservatives fuming over the debt-limit deal with President Biden.

Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., flanked by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McCarthy ally says speakership ‘absolutely safe’ despite conservative fury over debt limit

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin: Putin open to peace talks to end Ukraine war, but only if West offers concessions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

People look at the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday in Balasore district, in the eastern state of Orissa, India, Sunday, June 4, 2023. The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Biden ‘heartbroken’ after India train derailment kills 275 people

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chairs a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the health of the electrical power grid, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Joe Manchin says White House miscalculated by refusing to negotiate on debt limit

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. In the coming weeks, at least four additional candidates are expected to launch their own presidential campaigns, joining a field that already includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Ramaswamy and several longer-shots like conservative talk radio host Larry Elder. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘America First’ agenda does not ‘belong to Trump’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chairs a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the health of the electrical power grid, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Joe Manchin says White House miscalculated by refusing to negotiate on debt limit

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. In the coming weeks, at least four additional candidates are expected to launch their own presidential campaigns, joining a field that already includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Ramaswamy and several longer-shots like conservative talk radio host Larry Elder. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘America First’ agenda does not ‘belong to Trump’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., asks questions during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on proposed changes to police practices and accountability on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 10, 2020, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

House Republican Rep. Buck to Ron DeSantis: Don’t ‘try to out-Trump Donald Trump’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters before speaking at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. As Ron DeSantis embarked on the first official week of his presidential candidacy, the Florida governor repeatedly hit his chief rival, Trump, from the right. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Trump tells Hannity ‘not to joke’ about Biden’s cognitive issues

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Britain's Prince Harry arrives at the Royal Courts Of Justice in London, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The Duke of Sussex is scheduled to testify in the High Court after his lawyer presents opening statements Monday, June 5, 2023 in his case alleging phone hacking. It’s the first of Harry’s several legal cases against the media to go to trial and one of three alleging tabloid publishers unlawfully snooped on him. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

What to know as Prince Harry prepares for court fight with British tabloid publisher

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Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn. A federal judge says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional. In a 70-page ruling handed down late Friday night, June 2, 2023, U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker wrote that the law was both “unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad” and encouraged “discriminatory enforcement.” (John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign via AP, File)

Trump-appointed federal judge rejects Tennessee’s anti-drag law as too broad, too vague

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A woman waves a rainbow flag , during the annual pride march in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, July 23, 2022. Draped in rainbow flags, around 150,000 people were marching for LGBTQ rights at Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day celebration. Berlin police gave the crowd estimate on Saturday afternoon but said the number could grow into the evening. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Pregnant trans man on Glamour UK’s cover, touts children’s book ‘My Daddy’s Belly’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The YouTube app is displayed on an iPad on March 20, 2018, in Baltimore. YouTube will stop removing content that falsely claims the 2020 election or other past U.S. presidential elections were marred by “widespread fraud, errors or glitches," the platform announced Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

YouTube to stop removing content claiming U.S. election ‘fraud, errors or glitches’

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., chairs a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the health of the electrical power grid, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 1, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Joe Manchin says White House miscalculated by refusing to negotiate on debt limit

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump greets supporters before speaking at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. As Ron DeSantis embarked on the first official week of his presidential candidacy, the Florida governor repeatedly hit his chief rival, Trump, from the right. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Trump tells Hannity ‘not to joke’ about Biden’s cognitive issues

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Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Friday, March 3, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. In the coming weeks, at least four additional candidates are expected to launch their own presidential campaigns, joining a field that already includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Ramaswamy and several longer-shots like conservative talk radio host Larry Elder. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: ‘America First’ agenda does not ‘belong to Trump’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Rep. Garret Graves, R-La., flanked by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McCarthy ally says speakership ‘absolutely safe’ despite conservative fury over debt limit

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Pope Francis meets with pilgrims from Concesio and Sotto il Monte on the 60th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Pope Francis warned the Vatican's missionary fundraisers on Saturday to not allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope to visit Mongolia at end of summer in visit rich in geopolitical significance

Customers make their way through the parking lot of a Target store Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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The Dome of the U.S. Capitol Building is visible as cherry blossom trees bloom on the West Lawn, Saturday, March 30, 2019, in Washington. Peak bloom is expected April 1, according to the National Park Service. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Interruption of children’s choir singing national anthem at U.S. Capitol stokes furor

FILE - Federal officers launch tear gas at a group of demonstrators during a Black Lives Matter protest in Portland, Ore., on July 26, 2020. Oregon's reputation for political harmony is being tested as a Republican walkout in the state Senate continues for a third week. The boycott could derail hundreds of bills and approval of a biennial state budget, as Republicans and Democrats refuse to budge on their conflicting positions over issues including abortion rights, transgender health and guns. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

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From Jan. 22, 2020, through Feb. 4, 2020, students from the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C., took part in the latest “Robin Sage” exercise, the final test of their Special Forces Qualification Course training. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) ** FILE **

‘To me, it’s still going to be Fort Bragg’: Name change for iconic Army base touches a nerve

Flags of South Korea and the United States flutter outside of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul, South Korea, on April 25, 2023. The South Korean and U.S. militaries were set to begin massive live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, May 25, 2023, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls such a hostile invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

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A Long March rocket carrying a crew of Chinese astronauts in a Shenzhou-16 spaceship lifts off at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

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Security personnel manned the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit this week by a team from the World Health Organization. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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An immigrant considered a threat to public safety and national security waits to be processed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the ICE Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, after an early morning raid, Monday, June 6, 2022. This weekend, the Biden administration said it would suspend an order prioritizing the arrest and deportation of immigrants considered a threat to public safety and national security in order to comply with a ruling earlier in June 2022, from a Texas judge. Many otherwise law-abiding immigrants living here illegally will now be afraid to leave their homes out of concern they'll be detained. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Border officials arrest man wanted in Mexico on murder charges

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Florida couple charged in ‘abuse and torture’ scheme of boy that fractured skull

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

This May 15, 2019 file photo shows a vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine at a clinic in Vashon Island, Wash. On Thursday, May 30, 2019, U.S. health officials reported this year’s U.S. measles epidemic surpassed a 25-year-old record, and experts say it’s not clear when the wave of illnesses will stop. There were 971 cases so far this year, eclipsing the 963 measles illnesses reported for all of 1994. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

First measles case in Maryland since 2019 reported in Montgomery County

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A sign marks the facade of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, May 5, 2022, in Washington. The Justice Department issued new guidance Thursday, May 25, 2023, emphasizing that investigations must be free from bias involving race and gender or against people with disabilities. Anti-profiling rules were also expanded to include thousands more people who are part of the justice system. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Clinical reference lab CEO accused of impersonating technician, wrecking equipment at rival business

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

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Ships move through the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese destroyer tests U.S. nerves in Taiwan Strait

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

People look at the mangled wreckage of the two passenger trains that derailed Friday in Balasore district, in the eastern state of Orissa, India, Sunday, June 4, 2023. The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Biden ‘heartbroken’ after India train derailment kills 275 people

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin leads a cabinet meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin: Putin open to peace talks to end Ukraine war, but only if West offers concessions

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Two people carry their dogs as they attend a protest in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia's capital on Saturday in protest of the government's handling of a crisis after two mass shootings in the Balkan country. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

Protesters back on the streets of Belgrade as president ignores calls to stand down

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Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber watches his three-run home run in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Sunday, June 4, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Schwarber, Phillies beat up on Nationals bullpen in one-sided affair

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Philadelphia 76ers owner Josh Harris speaks with members of the media during a news conference at the NBA basketball team's practice facility in Camden, N.J., Tuesday, May 14, 2019. A group led by Josh Harris and Mitchell Rales that includes Magic Johnson has an agreement in principle to buy the NFL's Washington Commanders from longtime owner Dan Snyder for a North American professional sports team record $6 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday, April 13, 2023, because the deal had not been announced. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) **FILE**

Josh Harris to meet with NFL finance committee over Commanders sale

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Philadelphia Phillies' J.T. Realmuto (10) high-fives teammates after scoring on Josh Harrison's single in the second inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals, Saturday, June 3, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Realmuto hits tiebreaking HR, helps Phillies snap losing streak with 4-2 win over Nationals

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Members of the media interview players on the Vegas Golden Knights during media day ahead of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey final Friday, June 2, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Strip club to reward Vegas Golden Knights with free lap dances for life if they win the Stanley Cup

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Chuck Todd said Sunday he'll be leaving "Meet the Press" after a tumultuous near-decade of moderating the NBC political panel show, to be replaced in the coming months by Kristen Welker. (Associated Press, File)

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