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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media in the Florida Cabinet following his State of the State address during a joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. Texas and Florida are being led by tough-talking Republican governors weighing presidential runs as their state lawmakers debate especially strict legislation on border security. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)

DeSantis says he won’t greenlight Trump extradition on hush money charge 48 minutes ago

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times
In this Jan. 26, 2015 file photo, a supporter of open carry gun laws, wears a pistol as he prepares for a rally in support of open carry gun laws at the Capitol, in Austin, Texas. A federal judge on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022 has struck down one of Texas' few remaining firearm restrictions, finding a law that barred adults under the age of 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Federal judge blocks key parts of California handgun law

By Stefanie Dazio - Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Trump said in a social media post that he expects to be arrested Tuesday as a New York prosecutor is eyeing charges in a case examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president. Trump provided no evidence that suggested he was directly informed of a pending arrest and did not say how he knew of such plans. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump’s legal peril in New York boils down to a case of falsifying business records

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg participates in a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Bragg is standing firm against former President Donald Trump’s increasingly hostile rhetoric, telling his staff that the office won’t be intimidated or deterred as it nears a decision on charging the former president. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg caving to political pressure in Trump case, analysts say

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
A cross depicting the emblems of five U.S. military branches was removed from the lobby of the Austin, Texas, Veterans Affairs department clinic following a watchdog group’s complaint. (Military Religious Freedom Foundation photo, used with permission)

Texas VA clinic removes ‘Remember Our Veterans’ metal cross after watchdog complains

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times
This June 18, 2010, file photo shows the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison, in Draper, Utah. Lawmakers in South Carolina are debating instituting death by firing squad as an execution method. (Trent Nelson/Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool, File) **FILE**

Idaho poised to allow firing-squad executions in some cases

By Rebecca Boone - Associated Press
People wait in a line at a gun at store amid merchandise displays, in Arcadia, Calif., Sunday, March 15, 2020. Two California counties violated the Constitution's right to keep and bear arms when they shut down gun and ammunition stores in 2020 as nonessential businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) **FILE**

Credit cards caught in political crosshairs over tracking firearms purchases

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Child and his teddy bear both in protective medical masks sit on windowsill, looking out a window. Photo credit: Dragana Gordic via Shutterstock

Home poisoning deaths surged among toddlers during COVID-19 pandemic, safety commission reports

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CDC forced to correct alarming stats that inflated spike in rape, sex violence among teen girls

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Customers and bystanders form a line outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch location, Monday, March 13, 2023, in Wellesley, Mass. SVB Financial Group is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Friday, March 17. SVB Financial Group is no longer affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank or the bank’s private banking and wealth management business, SVB Private. SVB Financial Group ran Silicon Valley Bank up until it was seized last Friday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Nearly 200 banks teeter as Fed seeks inflation balance; rate hike risks more insolvency

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Police car. Photo credit: zef art via Shutterstock. ** FILE **

2 hurt after shooting at Texas school; suspect in custody

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A man sits on the ground handcuffed after witnesses say he appeared to be brandishing a knife on Sunday, March 19, 2023, in Miami Beach, Fla. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald via AP)

1 dead, 1 hurt in shooting during Miami Beach spring break

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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. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops, as Republican governors and lawmakers press to rescind it. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Null and void, but still causing headaches: Pentagon’s legal woes over COVID vaccine mandate persist

By By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Only a few scoops are left in a mother's next to last can of baby formula in Laurel, Md., on Monday, May 23, 2022. On Friday, Sept 30, 2022, U.S. regulators unveiled their plan to allow foreign baby formula manufactures to stay on the market, an effort at diversifying the nation's tightly concentrated industry and preventing future shortages. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Baby formula bandit busted for forging prescriptions, hawking formula to desperate moms

By By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
Actor Lance Reddick appears at the "White House Down" premiere in New York on June 25, 2013. Reddick, a character actor who specialized in intense, icy and possibly sinister authority figures on TV and film, including “The Wire,” "Fringe” and the “John Wick” franchise, died suddenly on Friday, March 17, 2023. He was 60. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ** FILE **

Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, dies at 60

By By Mark Kennedy - Associated Press
In this Aug. 11, 2019, photo, a man uses a cell phone in New Orleans. The U.S. communications regulator on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

FCC cracks down on spam texts, requires providers to block invalid, unused numbers

By By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly gives her inaugural address for her second four-year term, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, on the south steps of the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. A Kansas bill banning transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly for the third year in a row Friday, March 17, 2023 setting up a hotly contested fight in the Republican-controlled Legislature to override her. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

Kansas governor’s veto of transgender-athletes bill sets up override fight

By By John Hanna - Associated Press
President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Jan. 3, 2019, in Palm Beach, Fla. Authorities are preparing for the possibility that former President Donald Trump could be indicted and arraigned as early as next week on charges stemming from a New York City grand jury investigation into hush money paid on his behalf, four law enforcement officials said Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Officials making security preparations in case of Trump indictment

By By Colleen Long and Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press
Traffic builds along Interstate 4 in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, as Hurricane Ian approaches. (Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel via AP) **FILE**

Florida eyes penalties for drivers who cruise in the left lane

By By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
Bobby Caldwell performs onstage at the 2013 Soul Train Awards at the Orleans Arena on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, in Las Vegas. Caldwell, a singer of R&B, soul, adult contemporary and American standard music who had a major hit in 1978 with What You Won't Do For Love, died at his home in Great Meadows, N.J. on Tuesday, March 14. He was 71. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/Invision/AP, File)

‘What You Won’t Do for Love’ singer Bobby Caldwell dies

By By Andrew Dalton - Associated Press
Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette speaks to reporters after a hearing on April 1, 2011, in Dane County Circuit Court in Madison, Wis. La Follette resigned on Friday, March 17, 2023 three months into his 11th consecutive term in office. Gov. Tony Evers appointed former Treasurer Sarah Godlewski, who ran for U.S. Senate last year but lost in the primary, to fill out the four-year term. (Michael P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, Pool, File)

Wisconsin’s longtime Democratic secretary of state abruptly resigns

By By Scott Bauer and Todd Richmond - Associated Press
Customers stand near a display of Kindle electronic readers at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, Nov. 3, 2015, in Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, June 2, 2022 it will shut down its digital Kindle bookstores in China and stop selling the device to retailers in the country. The company said in a WeChat post that the bookstore will stop operating on June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Amazon Kindle Newsstand to end; subscriptions to be handled by publishers

By By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
Former President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks at a campaign event Monday, March 13, 2023, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Ron Johnson)

New Obama-appointed judge to assume oversight of Trump grand jury investigations

By By Eric Tucker - Associated Press
A sign marks Navajo Drive, as Sentinel Mesa, homes and other structures in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah, on the Navajo Reservation, stand in the distance, on April 30, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide a critical water rights case in the water-scarce Southwest. The high court will hold oral arguments Monday, March 20, 2023, in a case with critical implications for how water from the drought-stricken Colorado River is shared and the extent of the U.S. government’s obligations to Native American tribes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Feds want justices to end Navajo fight for Colo. River water

By By Michael Phillis - Associated Press
The YouTube TV streaming service on Thursday announced that its monthly subscription price will rise. File photo credit: Vantage_DS via Shutterstock.

YouTube TV boosts monthly cost by $8

By By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
A black plume rises over East Palestine, Ohio, as a result of a controlled detonation of a portion of the derailed Norfolk Southern trains, Feb. 6, 2023. The Ohio attorney general said Tuesday, March 14, that the state filed a lawsuit against railroad Norfolk Southern to make sure it pays for the cleanup and environmental damage caused by a fiery train derailment on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border last month. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

EPA tells states not to block waste from Ohio derailment

By By John Seewer - Associated Press
Customers and bystanders form a line outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch location, Monday, March 13, 2023, in Wellesley, Mass. SVB Financial Group is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Friday, March 17. SVB Financial Group is no longer affiliated with Silicon Valley Bank or the bank’s private banking and wealth management business, SVB Private. SVB Financial Group ran Silicon Valley Bank up until it was seized last Friday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Parent of SVB files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a week after bank’s collapse

By By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gestures to students before she speaks at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass, on Oct. 3, 2019. The late Justice Ginsburg is being remembered during ceremonies at the Supreme Court on Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Supreme Court remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press
California state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, speaks on the floor of the California Senate on May 30, 2018. Skinner on Friday, March 17, 2023, announced a bill in the state Legislature that aims to provide legal protections to health care providers who mail abortion pills to patients in other states. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California bill would protect doctors who mail abortion pills

By By Adam Beam - Associated Press
This image provided by Simik Ghookasian shows passengers and crew members restraining a man who according to federal authorities tried to open an airliner’s emergency door and tried to stab a flight attendant on a weekend flight from Los Angeles to Boston on Sunday, March 5, 2023. Simik Ghookasian, a passenger, said in a telephone interview that he was seated several rows behind the suspect, identified by federal authorities as Francisco Severo Torres, when he heard a commotion. (Simik Ghookasian via AP)

Flight attack raises questions about security, mental health

By By Michael Casey and David Koenig - Associated Press
Def Leppard's band mates are (from the left) Rick Savage, Phil Collen, Joe Elliott, Rick Allen and Vivian Campbell.

Def Leppard’s one-armed drummer attacked outside Florida hotel

By By Victor Morton - The Washington Times
Police car. Photo credit: zef art via Shutterstock. ** FILE **

Virginia man accused of flashing laser pointer at police helicopter

By By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

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