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George Papadopoulos (left) was arrested in July and pleaded guilty in early October. (Associated Press/File)

Person of interest in Russia probe eluded arrest thanks to Papadopoulos’ lies: Court filing

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
White House counsel Donald McGahn attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Don McGahn, White House counsel, extensively cooperating with Mueller’s office: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
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Alex Jones accused of destroying evidence in Sandy Hook lawsuit

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
FILE- In this June 14, 2018, file photo, gasoline prices are displayed on a pump at Sheetz along the Interstate 85 and 40 corridor near Burlington, N.C. On Friday, Aug. 10, the Labor Department reports on U.S. consumer prices for July. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Gas prices drop as end of summer driving season approaches

By Associated Press
Then-CIA Director John Brennan responds to a question as he speaks at the Global Security Forum 2015, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Brennan ‘easily the worst’ CIA director ever, Trump says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. Trump traveled to New York for a campaign fundraiser with supporters and is heading to Bedminster, N.J, to spend the weekend at his private golf resort. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump says he won’t allow social media companies to censor conservatives

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
An Associated Press reporter holds a mobile phone showing the Facebook Messenger app icon in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

DOJ presses Facebook to decrypt communications in MS-13 case

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump admin files formal complaint against Facebook for ‘discriminatory’ policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, and CIA Director John Brennan, left, sit in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Top former intel officials defend John Brennan in joint statement

By Gabriella Muñoz and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times
Supporters cheer as Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer is declared the winner in the primary, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Detroit. Whitmer will face Republican Bill Schuette in November. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Democrats shatter primary turnout records, bank on anti-Trump enthusiasm to deliver Congress

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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Alex Jones accused of destroying evidence in Sandy Hook lawsuit

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
Comedian Stephen Colbert ended his Showtime special on the 2016 presidential election by telling the audience he drank "too much of the poison." The confession came early Nov. 9, 2016, as the realization set in that Donald Trump would be the next commander in chief. (YouTube, The Late Show) ** FILE **

Colbert: Live show for sad liberals on election night was like joking in ‘slaughterhouse’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Martin Short, Steve Martin say don’t expect Trump-bashing on comedy tour: ‘We’re not here to preach’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Benghazi terror attack survivor Kris "Tanto" Paronto told Twitter followers on Aug. 16, 2018, that former CIA director John Brennan revoked his security clearance for trying to tell Americans the truth about what happened in Libya. (Image: Twitter, Kris Paronto, profile picture)

Brennan, CIA ‘Kool-Aid drinkers’ blasted by Benghazi terror survivor

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

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The Satanic Temple unveils its statue of Baphomet, a winged-goat creature, at a rally for the first amendment in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. The Satanic Temple wants to install the statue on Capitol grounds as a symbol for religious freedom after a monument of the Biblical Ten Commandments was installed in 2017. (AP Photo/Hannah Grabenstein)

Satanic Temple exploits First Amendment for abomination of Baphomet

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar (Associated Press)

Giddy with moral victories and intramural success

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times
Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop Monday, June 4, 2018, in Lakewood, Colo., after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that his refusal to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

‘Bake the cake or else’ is back: Baker who won high court ruling is under renewed assault

By Tammy Bruce
Jordan Peterson. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

Fear and loathing of Jordan Peterson

By Suzanne Fields

Omarosa tries to channel Anita Hill

By Cal Thomas

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George Papadopoulos (left) was arrested in July and pleaded guilty in early October. (Associated Press/File)

Person of interest in Russia probe eluded arrest thanks to Papadopoulos’ lies: Court filing

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
United We Dream youths and allies snap their fingers to show support to other DACA recipients speaking to the media after a court hearing in lawsuit filed by states challenging DACA program at the United States District Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP)

Judge halts full DACA restart

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Members of the defense team for Paul Manafort, from left, Kevin Downing, Jay Nanavati, Richard Westling, Thomas Zehnle, and Brian Ketcham, walk to federal court for closing arguments in the trial of the former Trump campaign chairman, in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Second day of deliberation ends without verdict in Manafort trial

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Cannabis plants at Compassionate Cultivation on Wednesday Jan. 17, 2018. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Medical marijuana measure spurs religious freedom lawsuit in Utah

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

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Washington Redskins running back Samaje Perine (32) runs with the ball during the first half of a preseason NFL football game against the New York Jets, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Perine in walking boot, Redskins to work out running backs

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times
Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws during the first inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Scherzer does it all as Nats beat Marlins

By The Washington Times
Washington Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman celebrates his solo home run with Bryce Harper (34) and others during the second inning of a baseball game against the Miami Marlins at Nationals Park, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Zimmerman, Wieters homer, Harper gets 500th career RBI

By David Driver and Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times
In this June 13, 2018, file photo, Washington Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne (11) shoots past Connecticut Sun forward Chiney Ogwumike during the first half of a WNBA basketball game in Uncasville, Conn. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day via AP, Fle)

Cloud hits jumper at buzzer, Mystics beat Sparks

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

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White House counsel Donald McGahn attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Don McGahn, White House counsel, extensively cooperating with Mueller’s office: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, surrounded by his family, addresses the crowd during a joint press conference with Gov. Jeff Colyer to thank their supporters and kick off Kobach's Fall campaign at the Kansas Republican Party headquarters on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, in Topeka, Kan. (Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

Greg Orman, independent, allowed on Kansas governor ballot

By Roxana Hegeman - Associated Press
In this Friday, July 20, 2018, file photo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic congressional candidate from New York, waves during a rally, in Wichita, Kan. Ocasio-Cortez is trying to leverage the 17,000 votes that gave her a primary win in New York into a national movement. (Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle via AP, File)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez banned local news from townhall

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. Trump is traveling to a campaign fundraiser with supporters in Southampton, NY., before heading to Bedminster, N.J., for the weekend. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump says Bruce Ohr next to lose security clearance

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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An Associated Press reporter holds a mobile phone showing the Facebook Messenger app icon in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

DOJ presses Facebook to decrypt communications in MS-13 case

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times
Then-CIA Director John Brennan responds to a question as he speaks at the Global Security Forum 2015, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Brennan ‘easily the worst’ CIA director ever, Trump says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
In this photo taken on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, Syrians pass by a Russian military police vehicle with destroyed buildings in the background in the city of Aleppo, Syria. Russian air defense assets in Syria claim to have downed 45 drones targeting their main base in the country, its military said Thursday, after an attack by the Islamic State group on a Syrian army base a day earlier killed seven troops. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Trump administration nixes millions for Syria reconstruction

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, right, and CIA Director John Brennan, left, sit in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Top former intel officials defend John Brennan in joint statement

By Gabriella Muñoz and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

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