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FILE - President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. A lawyer for Trump said Thursday, March 30, 2023, that he has been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump indictment live updates: Latest news, developments

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Can we survive Biden?

U.S. President Joe Biden, right, stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting on Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. Xi accused Washington on Monday, March 6, 2023, trying to isolate his country and hold back its development. That reflects the ruling Communist Party's growing frustration that its pursuit of prosperity and global influence is threatened by U.S. restrictions on access to technology, its support for Taiwan and other moves seen by Beijing as hostile. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

GOP lawmakers say China must be punished over soaring illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House back on defense after Biden leaves Dems in the dust on COVID-19 emergency bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Don’t give up on Trump

iPhone 7 showing its screen with TikTok and other social media application icons. File photo credit: Wachiwit via Shutterstock.

TikTok propaganda labels fall flat in ‘huge win’ for Russia

By David Klepper - Associated Press

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Bolsonaro returns to Brazil after 3-month stint in Florida

By Eléonore Hughes and Carla Bridi - Associated Press

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum speaks at the state Capitol on April 10, 2020, in Bismarck, N.D. Burgum on Thursday, March 30, 2023, vetoed a bill that would prohibit public schools teachers and staff from referring to transgender students by pronouns other than those reflecting the sex assigned to them at birth in most cases. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP, File)

North Dakota’s Republican governor vetoes transgender pronouns bill

By Margaret Stafford - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2023, celebrating Greek Independence Day. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Far-left Democrats push Biden to adopt wishlist of executive orders to bypass House GOP

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Nick Galifianakis, D-N.C., is shown in his Washington office, Jan. 9, 1967. A funeral will be held this weekend for the former Democratic U.S. representative, who died Monday, March 27, 2023. He was 94. Galifianakis represented central North Carolina for several years before two unsuccessful Senate bids — the first against archconservative Jesse Helms. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges, File)

Former congressman, Senate candidate Galifianakis dies at 94

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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 30, 2023. Russia's top security agency says an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal has been arrested on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service said Thursday that Evan Gershkovich was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

WSJ reporter arrested in Russia on charges of espionage

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Russia attempting to buy North Korean weapons in exchange for food, White House says

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Health officials in San Francisco are sounding the alarm about an animal tranquilizer, xylazine or "tranq," that is being mixed into illegal drugs after a handful of overdose victims were found to have the substance in their system. (Photo credit: Todorean-Gabriel via Shutterstock) ** FILE **

Washington is getting antsy about ‘tranq,’ a nasty drug complicating fentanyl crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., walks to a motorcade vehicle after stepping off Air Force One behind President Joe Biden, Feb. 3, 2023, at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia. On Thursday, Feb. 16, Fetterman's office announced that the senator had checked himself into the hospital for clinical depression. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Sen. John Fetterman set to return to Capitol week of April 17

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., is flanked by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., as he talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 24, 2023. House Republicans are set to approve a sprawling energy package that counters virtually all of President Joe Biden's agenda to address climate change. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Dems cross aisle to slap down Biden climate change agenda, pass bipartisan energy bill

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

This combination of file photos shows a Google sign and the Facebook app. (AP Photo/File)

Senators propose antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech: ‘First step towards liberating the internet’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Thursday, March 30, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Jeffries says White House did not undercut Democrats on bills

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Right-wing Israelis rally in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen in poster, and his government's plans to overhaul the judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, March 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu supporters block highway to support judicial plan

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A police officer in Seaside Park N.J. photographs a dead whale on the beach on March 2, 2023. On Tuesday, March 28, Democratic U.S. Senators from four states called upon the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to address a spate of whale deaths on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The issue has rapidly become politicized, with mostly Republican lawmakers and their supporters blaming offshore wind farm preparation for the East Coast deaths despite assertions by NOAA and other federal and state agencies that the two are not related. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Whale deaths prompt Democrats to join Republican calls for probe of offshore wind turbines

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry talks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, on Jan. 7, 2022. Landry, who opposes abortion, has urged the state Bond Commission to withhold financial approval for a New Orleans power plant project, amid city leaders stating they would not enforce the state’s abortion ban. The state Bond Commission on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022, approved the financing for the project. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Weaponization hearing hears evidence of White House, CDC, Fauci censorship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times