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In this July 13, 2021, photo, the logo for Boeing appears on a screen above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Boeing Co., a leading defense contractor and one of the world's two dominant manufacturers of airline planes, is expected to move its headquarters from Chicago to the Washington, D.C., area, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision could be announced as soon as later Thursday, May 5, 2022, according to one of the people. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Boeing will move its headquarters to D.C. area from Chicago

By David Koenig and Sarah Rankin - Associated Press
Mass transit riders wear masks as they commute in the financial district of lower Manhattan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022, in New York. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Tampa, Fla., on April 18, 2022, voided the national travel mask mandate as exceeding the authority of U.S. health officials. The mask mandate that covers travel on airplanes and other public transportation was recently extended by President Joe Biden's administration until May 3. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Biden could try to run out the clock on transportation mask mandate: experts

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at the New Hampshire Port Authority in Portsmouth, N.H., Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden travels to N.H., touting infrastructure spending's impact on supply chain issues

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
Travelers wait in a security line at Love Field in Dallas, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The major airlines and many of the busiest airports dropped their mask requirements after a Florida judge struck down the CDC mandate and the Transportation Security Administration announced it wouldn't enforce its 2021 security directive. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Transit passengers breathe sigh of relief as masks come off

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 15, 2015, file photo, vehicles pass a highway construction site near Sacramento, Calif. The Biden administration announced Tuesday it reimplemented core protections to an environmental law on infrastructure projects, a climate-related regulation that former President Donald Trump had rolled back. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) **FILE**

Biden reverses Trump climate policy, restores environmental rules for infrastructure projects

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 7, 2014, file photo, traffic on the Brent Spence Bridge passes in front of the Cincinnati skyline while crossing the Ohio River to and from Covington, Ky. Governors from Ohio and Kentucky asked the federal government on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, for $2 billion to fix and replace a bridge that became a symbol during the debate over the infrastructure bill passed last year. Overhauling the Brent Spence Bridge that connects Cincinnati with Northern Kentucky was a big selling point for President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)

Biden to agencies: Make sure infrastructure materials funded by law are 'Made in America'

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden advocates for legislation to boost spending on manufacturing, research

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks at POET Bioprocessing in Menlo, Iowa, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Inflation hits home for Biden, takes a bite out of his biggest legislative win

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a passenger wears a face mask she travels on a flight from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The lead plaintiff in a group of cases aiming to end the federal transportation mask mandate is vowing to continue the legal fight as the Biden administration extended the face-covering requirement that was set to expire on April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) **FILE**

CDC's mask mandate extension keeps legal fights alive

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
Travelers are lining up at O'Hare airport in Chicago, Friday, July 2, 2021. The federal requirement to wear face masks on airplanes and public transportation is scheduled to expire next week, and airline executives and Republican lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to let the mandate die. The fate of the rule — and consideration of an alternate “framework” of moves to limit the spread of COVID-19 — was under discussion Monday, April 11, 2022 within the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

CDC extends transportation mask rule for two weeks

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, truck drivers stop at a gas station in Emerson, Ga., north of metro Atlanta, to fill up their tractor trailer rigs. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)

Biden to unveil plans to increase the number of truck drivers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, May 26, 2016, photo, travelers stand in line as they prepare to pass through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Miami International Airport, in Miami. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) **FILE**

TSA's scanner 'inclusive' upgrade for transgender passengers costs taxpayers $18.6 million

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on Nov. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden adds equity, climate change to applications for infrastructure grants; critics call it 'woke'

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Interstate 81 North near the Minersville exit, Foster Twp., Pa., was the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on Monday, March 28, 2022. (David McKeown/Republican-Herald via AP)

3 dead in snowy pileup of dozens of vehicles in Pennsylvania

Associated Press
In this file photo, Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in Washington. Since taking the position last November, Republicans say, Mr. Landrieu has rebuffed calls to provide a bipartisan briefing on how the taxpayer money is being spent. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Democrats push Biden to ramp up infrastructure spending ahead of tumultuous midterms

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on Monday, May 13, 2019. State media are reporting a Chinese airliner from China Eastern with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, sparking a mountainside fire. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country's south

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press
An American Airlines Airbus A321-231 taxies to the gate, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

American Airlines resuming alcohol sales in main cabin starting in April

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times
The container ship Ever Forward, which ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay off the coast near Pasadena, Md., the night before, is seen Monday, March 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Bid underway to refloat cargo ship aground in Chesapeake Bay

Associated Press
Holiday travelers wearing face masks line to check in at the Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) ** FILE **

CDC extending mask mandate on airplanes, buses through April 18

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Tulsa Transit General Manager Ted Rieck boards a new electric bus on Aug. 3, 2021, in Tulsa, Okla. Tulsa Transit has 4 new electric buses in their fleet. Public transit systems straining to win back riders after crushing waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are getting a $3 billion boost to stay afloat and invest in electric buses. It's part of several initiatives being announced by the Biden administration March 7, 2022, to promote green-friendly mass transit as workers begin returning to offices (Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP, File)

Public transit gets $3.7B to woo riders, adopt green fleets

By Hope Yen - Associated Press
In this file photo, Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in Washington. Since taking the position last November, Republicans say, Mr. Landrieu has rebuffed calls to provide a bipartisan briefing on how the taxpayer money is being spent. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

House GOP presses Biden's infrastructure czar on efforts to 'root out waste and fraud'

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Company logo flags wave in front of a Volkswagen factory building in Zwickau, Germany, on April 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

Volkswagen stops production in Russia, cuts off vehicle exports

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this file photo, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., one of the key Senate Republicans shepherding a $1 trillion infrastructure bill with Democrats, arrives at the chamber as the Senate works to advance the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021. Mrs. Capito is among a number of congressional Republicans accusing Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg of crafting new byzantine rules and regulations governing how money from President Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package can be spent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

GOP accuses White House of diverting infrastructure funding to 'woke' agenda

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks during a presentation on the planned factory to build electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles on, Sept. 28, 2021, in Memphis, Tenn. Ford Motor Co. and a South Korean company would have to create more than 5,000 full-time jobs at a planned electric pickup truck factory and battery manufacturing plant in Tennessee or pay back at least part of a $500 million state grant for the project, according to a lease approved Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, by a regional board. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Ford splits EV, internal combustion into separate units

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., listens as President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool)

Sen. Joe Manchin shuts down Biden's talk of reviving $1.75T social welfare bill

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Used vehicles sit in a storage lot at a Toyota dealership Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022, in Englewood, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Economists see car insurance rates climbing in 2022

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
An Aeroflot counter at an airport in Prague, Czech Republic, is shown in thisTuesday, July 2, 2019, file photo. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) ** FILE **

Delta suspends codesharing with Russia's Aeroflot carrier

Associated Press
American Airlines passenger jets prepare for departure, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, near a terminal at Boston Logan International Airport, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

American Airlines passenger hit with coffee pot, subdued after trying to enter cockpit

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times
With the U.S. Capitol dome in the background, a sign that reads "Build Back Better" is displayed before a news conference, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Democrats butt heads over what to salvage from Biden's busted Build Back Better bill

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
A Frontier Airlines jetliner taxis to a runway to take off from Denver International Airport Thursday, April 23, 2020, in Denver. Frontier Airlines' parent company is buying Spirit Airlines in a $2.9 billion cash-and-stock deal that will allow the combined airline to be more competitive against its larger rivals. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Frontier bids $3B for Spirit hoping for major budget carrier

By Michelle Chapman - Associated Press

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Download the Special Report available in the March 22, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (4.2 MB)

Infrastructure 2018: Moving America Forward — Land, Water and Air: Download the Special Report available in the March 22, 2018, edition of The Washington Times. (4.2 MB)

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