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Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall speaks during a Senate Armed Services budget hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2023. The Air Force said Monday, May 22, that it is looking at ways to better control access to classified information. Kendall told reporters that the Air Force needs to better enforce the rules that govern access to classified information based on whether someone with the correct security clearance also has a need to know the information. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Air Force looks to better control access to classified data after intelligence leak

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

A sign up page for the application TikTok is shown on a cell phone in front of a screen with logos for the company in Sydney, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Australia had become the last of the Five Eyes security partners to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok ap from government devices. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Lawmakers press National Guard over service member’s TikTok ads amid concerns of Chinese influence

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is backdropped by a screen showing the countries that signed a strategic energy partnership at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan met in Romania's capital to conclude an agreement on an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the European Union amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Hungarian denies U.S. on list as adversary, defends energy deals with Russia

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Members of Mexico's National Guard march in the Independence Day military parade, in the capital's main plaza, the Zocalo, in Mexico City, Sept. 16, 2019. Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled April 18, 2023 that the 2022 transfer of the newly created National Guard from civilian to military control was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president still vows to give National Guard to Army

Associated Press

The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The FBI wants to question a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard in connection with the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war, two people familiar with the investigation said Thursday, April 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Massachusetts Air National Guardsman may be behind intelligence leaks: Reports

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

National Guard members take a staircase toward the U.S. Capitol building before a rehearsal for President-elect Joe Biden's Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Jan. 18, 2021. Soldiers are leaving the Army National Guard at a faster rate than they are enlisting, fueling concerns that in the coming years units around the country may not meet military requirements for overseas and other deployments. Officials say the number of soldiers retiring or leaving the Guard each month in the past year has exceeded those coming in, for a total annual loss of about 7,500 service members. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

National Guard struggles as troops leave at faster pace

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Welcome Illegal Immigrants to the DC Sanctuary City Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why is D.C.’s Mayor Bowser so afraid of illegal immigrants?

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Spc. Brady McNeil, a radiologist with the Vermont Army National Guard, draws up a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 during a vaccination clinic at the Brattleboro Area Middle School, April 14, 2021, in Brattleboro, Vt. The Army says it will start booting out soldiers who refuse to take the COVID-19 shot only days after yet another fully-vaccinated and boosted senior Pentagon official tested positive for the coronavirus. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP, File)

House GOP urges Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to drop vaccine mandate on National Guard

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

With the White House in the background, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser waves as she arrives to speak during the second March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control, Saturday, June 11, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

House approves measure to give D.C. mayor authority to deploy National Guard

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. The Army says 98% of its active duty force had gotten at least one dose of the mandatory coronavirus vaccine as of this week’s deadline for the shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **

Army stops pay for guard and reserve troops who won’t get a COVID-19 vaccine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, center, and his wife Fran, right, talk with specialist Emily Milosevic as they tour the Defense Supply Center Columbus in Columbus, Ohio, as members of the Ohio Army National Guard prepare to deploy to aid Ohio hospitals during the current surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations Jan. 6, 2022. Up to 40,000 Army National Guard soldiers across the country - or about 13% of the force — have not yet gotten the mandated COVID-19 vaccine, and as the deadline for shots looms, at least 14,000 of them have flatly refused and could be forced out of the service. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

Army Guard troops risk dismissal as vaccine deadline looms

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Migrants walk past razor wire fencing to be taken by the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river in Eagle Pass, Texas, Sunday,May 22, 2022. The U.S. government has expelled migrants more than 1.9 million times under Title 42, named for a 1944 public health law, denying them a chance to seek asylum as permitted under U.S. law and international treaty for purposes of preventing the spread of COVID-19. President Joe Biden wanted to end Title 42, but a federal judge in Louisiana issued a nationwide injunction that keeps it intact. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Texas plugs Biden’s border gaps with razor wire and prosecutions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Sens. Rubio, Feinstein introduce bill to create Space National Guard

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. A Mexican national was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking the largest amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities in 2021 and 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens during a news conference at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Gov. DeSantis rejects Biden’s request for National Guard troops for State of the Union

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times