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Iran seizes British tanker in Strait of Hormuz

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing, Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Trump urges Federal Reserve to lower rates: ‘Don’t blow it!’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
In this July 18, 2018, file photo, a wild horse jumps among others on Bureau of Land Management land near Salt Lake City. The Trump administration says it can save taxpayers millions of dollars and trim a "top heavy" office in Washington by moving the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado and dispersing scores of jobs across 11 Western states. Administration officials said Tuesday, July 16, 2019, that they hope to open the new headquarters in the town of Grand Junction and complete most of the job shifts by September 2020. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Grand Junction puts out welcome mat for federal employees leaving Beltway for backcountry

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this June 4, 2017, file photo. nNew Army recruits take part in a swearing in ceremony before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies in San Diego. The Army has missed its recruiting goal for the first time in more than a decade. Army leaders tell The Associated Press they signed up about 70,000 new troops for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Military eyes 16-year-olds as ranks and candidates dwindle

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing, Friday, July 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump tries to shift outcry from supporters to ‘The Squad’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this April 1, 2019, file photo, Attorney General William Barr attends the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Feds release 3,100 inmates under First Step Act

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump waves as he walks from Air Force One upon arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Friday, July 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal judge upholds Trump’s off-ramp from Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan attends an event at Georgetown Law, Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Justice Elena Kagan encourages gerrymandering protesters: ‘Carry on the efforts’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia participates at the third annual Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum in Washington. The late Supreme Court Justice, Tom Cruise, and Stephen Colbert are among the 51 people nominated for the New Jersey Hall of Fame. The hall honors people in five categories who live or have lived in New Jersey. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump taps Scalia’s son for Labor secretary

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

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MSNBC's Chris Hayes discusses President Trump and his base of support, July 18, 2019. (Image: MSNBC screenshot)

MSNBC’s Hayes: Trump’s base must have heart ‘ripped out,’ ‘destroyed,’ and ‘banished’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times
This image released by ABC shows co-host Meghan McCain who returned to "The View," in New York, Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, since the death of her father. Sen. John McCain in August. She thanked viewers and her colleagues for their support. (Lou Rocco/ABC via AP)

Meghan McCain reveals she recently had miscarriage: ‘I am not hiding anymore’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
In a Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, photo, billionaire investor and Democratic activist Tom Steyer speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Steyer is bringing his call for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump back to South Carolina. Steyer says South Carolinians can push the issue with the Democratic hopefuls streaming into the state, home of the first southern primary. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

Billionaire 2020 hopeful Tom Steyer: ‘Rich’ is ‘not how I see myself’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
This Feb. 9, 2019, file photo shows A$AP Rocky at Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Trump says he’s trying to help free rapper A$AP Rocky

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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Irreducible Complexity Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

In defiance of science

By Robert Knight
A new University of Virginia college course will tap into Ronald Reagan's presidential wisdom, taught by historian and author Craig Shirley, and augmented by several Reagan administration officials. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Supporting free enterprise and conservative values

By Scott Walker
Wesley Pruden.

Gone are the old breed

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times
In this Monday, July 15, 2019, file photo, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, second from left, speaks, as U.S. Reps., from left, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.,Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listen, during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Squad is a real threat — to Democrats

By Matt Mackowiak
Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon’s weaponized ticks wouldn’t be worst military secret

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, July 19, 2019, on developments in the implementation of the First Step Act. About 2,200 federal inmates will be released by the federal Bureau of Prisons under the criminal justice reform measure signed into law last year by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Deputy attorney general says House should reverse course, calls contempt vote ‘a new low’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump waves as he walks from Air Force One upon arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport, in Morristown, N.J., Friday, July 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal judge upholds Trump’s off-ramp from Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this March 1, 2010 file photo, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stands in front of her 1958 adobe home that was moved and restored at the Arizona Historical Society Museum in Tempe, Ariz. O'Connor's 1950s adobe home in metro Phoenix is being listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The State Historic Preservation Office's announcement Friday, July 19, 2019, says the National Park Service approved Arizona's nomination of the Sandra Day O'Connor House for placement on the register, which the office described as the nation's list of properties considered worthy of preservation. (David Wallace/The Arizona Republic via AP) **FILE**

Sandra Day O’Connor’s Arizona home makes National Register

By Terry Tang - Associated Press
In this file photo, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, left, knuckles Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, right, during the Republican Governors Association annual conference, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Mr. Baker and Mr. Hogan were found by a Morning Consult survey to be the top two most popular governors in the United States in the second quarter of 2019, going off their approval ratings. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Fifteen most popular U.S. governors are Republicans despite legislative abortion battles

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

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Washington Wizards first round draft pick Rui Hachimura, left, shakes hands with Wizards senior vice president of basketball operations Tommy Sheppard as they arrive for an NBA basketball press conference at Capital One Arena in Washington, Friday, June 21, 2019.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)**FILE****

Wizards remove interim tag, hire Tommy Sheppard as general manager

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times
Former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Mussina throws out the ceremonial first pitch before a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Cleveland Indians, Sunday, June 30, 2019, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) **FILE**

LOVERRO: Underappreciated Mussina could have entered Hall as an Oriole

By Thom Loverro

Delle Donne returns to help Mystics top Fever in OT

By Associated Press
J.B. Holmes of the United States, right acknowledges the crowd as he completes his second round of the British Open Golf Championships, with South Africa's Ernie Els looking on, at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Friday, July 19, 2019.(AP Photo/Jon Super)

Lowry, Holmes share British Open lead as McIlroy leaves with cheers

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing, Friday, July 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump tries to shift outcry from supporters to ‘The Squad’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., walks out of a House of Representatives office building, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Ocasio-Cortez: Trump believes treating migrants humanely ‘equals an open border’ policy

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before departing, Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Trump urges Federal Reserve to lower rates: ‘Don’t blow it!’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Illinois Democrats, Rep. Mike Quigley, left, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, do TV news interviews before votes in the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

House Democrat: Trump’s ‘sick personality is leading our country’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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In this Dec. 22, 2015, photo, Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., is interviewed in St. Paul, Minn. Emmer, who has a year under his belt as a Minnesota congressman, has held 14 town halls in all corners of the sprawling 6th District. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

GOP chair dismisses potential pact with Democrats banning candidates from using hacked material

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Iran seizes British tanker in Strait of Hormuz

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, during a hearing on "fentanyl analogues and the expiring emergency scheduling order." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Sen. Lindsey Graham urges Trump to not agree to ‘absurd’ demands from Taliban

By Lauren Meier - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats speaks at a Heritage Foundation event in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Intelligence community creates new election threats executive position to advise DNI

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

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