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U.S. economy, juiced on trillions in COVID aid, grew last year at fastest pace since 1984

President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with private sector CEOs about the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. economy grew last year at its fastest pace since 1984, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, giving President Biden a piece of good economic news amid high inflation and chronic supply-chain woes.

An Ukrainian serviceman heads to an advanced position on the front line in the Luhansk area, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. The U.S. rejection of Russia's main demands to resolve the crisis over Ukraine left "little ground for optimism," the Kremlin said Thursday, but added that dialogue was still possible. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

U.S. appeals to Putin’s ‘legacy’ as threat of war looms in Ukraine

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Barriers to separate activists are set up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021, ahead of arguments on abortion at the court in Washington. President Biden was thrown a lifeline this week with a chance to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, giving him a chance to make up for a string of unfulfilled promises on the racial justice front. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden ready for rare racial justice win with Supreme Court pick

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Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on a variety of matters including a border wall, razor wire, critical race theory, election laws, mail-in ballots, voter fraud, and more at the Midland Chapter of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly's Reagan Lunch at the Bush Convention Center Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in Midland, Texas. (Jacob Ford/Odessa American via AP) ** FILE **

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Hopscotch, a chalkboard cow, stands alone in a light snow outside the Children's Museum of Denver at Marsico Campus Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, in Denver. The popular museum temporarily closed on Wednesday because of escalating harassment of staff by adult visitors angry over a city-ordered mandate requiring anyone age 2 and older to wear a mask in indoor public spaces. The museum will remain closed until Friday, Feb. 4. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado children’s museum closes over mask policy for kids

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A ball bounces above the rim during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game between Iowa State and TCU, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

College basketball announcer fired for comparing players to antifa

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Comic book sales of ‘woke Superman’ tanked last year

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Barriers to separate activists are set up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 30, 2021, ahead of arguments on abortion at the court in Washington. President Biden was thrown a lifeline this week with a chance to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, giving him a chance to make up for a string of unfulfilled promises on the racial justice front. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden ready for rare racial justice win with Supreme Court pick

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks about the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Millions of health care workers across the U.S. were supposed to have their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by this coming Monday, Dec. 6 under a mandate from President Joe Biden's administration. But that has been placed on hold by federal judges. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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FILE - A prospecting drill rig bores into the bedrock near Ely, Minn., in search of copper, nickel and precious metals that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota on Oct. 4, 2011. The Biden administration on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, canceled a move by former President Donald Trump to renew mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

Biden cancels lease renewals for proposed Minnesota mine

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, appointed by President Bill Clinton, sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Nov. 30, 2018. Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biden to announce Supreme Court Justice Breyer’s retirement Thursday afternoon

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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., is seen here in this file photo in a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019. Mr. Maloney serves as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

DCCC expands its list of vulnerable House Democrats

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WVa., speaks to the media after senate democrats luncheon, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Biden is meeting privately with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, a visit intended to deliver a jolt to the party's long-stalled voting and elections legislation. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Manchin says his vote for liberal nominee to Supreme Court is possible

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In this Oct. 17, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at American Airlines Arena in Dallas, Texas. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Saturday: Trump hosts two Texas rallies

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President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with private sector CEOs about the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. economy, juiced on trillions in COVID aid, grew last year at fastest pace since 1984

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FILE - In this July 26, 2018 file photo visa applicants wait to enter the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China. The U.S. Homeland Security Department says more than 700,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the country during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas. The department said in annual report Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, that there were 701,900 overstays from October 2016 through September 2017 among visitors who arrived by plane or ship. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

U.S. mulls evacuating Beijing embassy over COVID rules

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this May 27, 2021, file photo, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo speaks during a news conference honoring nine people killed by a coworker in San Jose, Calif. Gun owners would be required to carry liability insurance and pay a fee under a proposed ordinance in the city of San Jose that officials say would be the first of its kind in the United States. Mayor Liccardo says it would also encourage the 5,500 households with a legally registered gun to have gun safes, trigger locks, and to take gun safety classes. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)

Gun rights group sues San Jose over liability insurance requirement

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

In this April 28, 2021, file photo, Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate is expected to narrowly confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She is widely expected to land on President Joe Biden's short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Biden eyes long list of Black female candidates to fill Supreme Court vacancy

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Absentee ballots sit in a ballot box during early voting in the primary election, Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in the Soho neighborhood of New York. New York City, long a beacon for immigrants, is on the cusp of becoming the largest place in the U.S. to give noncitizens the right to vote. Legally documented, voting-age noncitizens, who comprise nearly one in 10 of the city's 8.8 million inhabitants, would be allowed to cast votes in elections to pick the mayor, City Council members and other municipal officeholders under a bill nearing approval. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

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Louisville Police Department officers stand outside during a protest over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Breonna Taylor, a black woman, was fatally shot by police in her home in March. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Louisville to pay $75,000 to cop suspended for off-duty prayer outside abortion clinic

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Authorities investigate the scene of a shooting Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, in Houston. Authorities say a police chase in Houston ended with a shootout that wounded three officers. The incident happened about 2:40 p.m. Thursday when a car that police were pursuing crashed at an intersection just off Interstate 69 on the southeastern edge of downtown Houston. ( Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)

3 Houston police officers wounded after chase, shootout

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FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Two Republican congressmen are demanding that FBI Director Christopher Wray provide details on efforts to rein in the bureau's use of warrants to spy on Americans that are approved by a secretive federal court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

GOP lawmakers demand FBI detail efforts to rein in secret surveillance warrants

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Fencing surrounds the Denver Reception and Diagnostic Center operated by the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in east Denver. Amber Johnson of Fayetteville, Ark., is fighting to get COVID-19 vaccinations for her 63-year-old father, Ronald Johnson, and his fellow inmates in the facility. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Ex-prison guard sues to stop Colorado’s ‘racially discriminatory’ diversity training

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Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder looks on before an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, in Orchard Park, N.Y. Two members of Congress are asking the NFL to provide evidence of Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder’s interference with an investigation into sexual harassment and other improper conduct at the club. Democrats Carolyn Maloney of New York and Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois already have asked the NFL for transparency about the probe. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus, File)

Congress sets up roundtable for former Washington employees amid investigation into NFL

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase (1) runs against the Tennessee Titans during the first half of an NFL divisional round playoff football game, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski) * * FILE**

Rams, 49ers renew long-running rivalry, while Chiefs, Bengals meet in a rare postseason matchup

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Norway's Maren Lundby competes in the mixed team ski jumping World Cup event in Rasnov, Romania, on Feb. 20, 2021. Lundby has emerged as an advocate for change in a sport that has historically had athletes develop eating disorders in a quest to be as light as possible to fly farther. (AP Photo/Raed Krishan, File) **FILE**

Olympic champion Lundby advocates for change in eating disorder-plagued ski jump

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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (7) runs onto the field before an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. Ben Roethlisberger's NFL career is over. The longtime Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback announced his retirement on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, saying it was “time to clean out my locker, hang up my cleats” after 18 years, two Super Bowls, countless team records and a spot in the Hall of Fame all but secure.(AP Photo/Colin E. Braley, File)

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger announces retirement from NFL

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