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Valerie Richardson covers politics and the West from Denver. She can be reached at vrichardson@washingtontimes.com.

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Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Makan Delrahim leaves the federal courthouse Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Washington. A federal judge approved the $85 billion mega-merger of AT&T and Time Warner on Tuesday, a move that could usher in a wave of media consolidation while shaping how much consumers pay for streaming TV and movies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

State attorneys general circle Big Tech firms over antitrust concerns

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., center, flanked by Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., left, and Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., introduces the Zero Waste Act that would create a federal grant program to help local governments invest in waste reduction initiatives, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Ilhan Omar blasts Israel after Palestinian Authority cracks down on LGBT rights

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this June 4, 2019, file photo, a Planned Parenthood clinic is photographed in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) ** FILE **

Planned Parenthood pulls out of Title X over Trump administration abortion restrictions

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this Oct. 11, 2018, file photo, former NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick smiles on stage during W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremonies at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Colin Kaepernick urges kneelers to ‘stay strong’ as protests shift to getting him an NFL job

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Sen. Ted Cruz is slated to take on big tech and its censorship of conservative thought in a Senate hearing Tuesday. Syndicated radio host Dennis Prager will be featured as a witness. (Sen. Ted Cruz)

Ted Cruz: New York Times ‘destroying itself’ with ‘Trump hatred’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump accuses New York Times of leading ‘Racism Witch Hunt’ after newsroom leak

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this Friday, July 12, 2019, file photo, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY., gestures while testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing on family separation and detention centers, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Democrats accused of fueling attacks on cops, ICE with incendiary political rhetoric

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Baker Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, manages his shop after a U.S. Supreme Court issued a limited ruling in his favor after he refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, June 4, 2018. He is suing Colorado after officials ruled against him in another alleged discrimination case in which his shop refused to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ** FILE **

Trump administration incurs LGBTQ wrath in bid to expand religious protections for contractors

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
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California scraps ethnic-studies model decried as anti-Semitic, left-wing ‘propaganda’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this July 30, 2008, file photo, Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla. Epstein has died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, says person briefed on the matter, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Uma Sanghvi, File)

Jeffrey Epstein connection emerges as problem for Democrats, Hollywood

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
In this March 31, 2015, file photo, a bald eagle takes flight in Newcastle, Maine. Bald eagles are in the midst of record population growth in the northern New England states and could find themselves removed from all state endangered lists. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Claws out after Trump administration overhauls ‘bureaucratic’ Endangered Species Act

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
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California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum decried as anti-Semitic, left-wing ‘propaganda’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler at the Monroe Energy Trainer Refinery in Trainer, Pa., Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) ** FILE **

EPA seeks to limit states leveraging Clean Water Act to block pipelines

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
William Perry Pendley is the deputy director of the Bureau of Land Management. (Department of the Interior photograph)

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Sagebrush rebel’ William Perry Pendley embraces role heading BLM

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
This May 21, 2018, file photo shows a row of dishwashers for sale at Lowe's Home Improvement store in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Trump administration seeks to juice dishwashers by scrubbing energy regulations

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
This undated photo provided by the Dayton Police Department shows Connor Betts. The 24-year-old masked gunman in body armor opened fire early Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killing several people, including his sister, and wounding dozens before he was quickly slain by police, officials said. (Dayton Police Department via AP)

Gunman’s left-wing views thwart Democratic efforts to pin mass shootings on Trump

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
This July 29, 2019, photo shows FBI personnel passing a ticket booth at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, Calif., the morning after a gunman killed at least three people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounding about 15 others. The Santa Clara County coroner's office says two of the victims of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting died of gunshot wounds to their chests and a third died of a back wound. The office of the medical examiner-coroner says Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, the deaths of Trevor Irby, Keyla Salazar and Stephen Romero are classified as homicides. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) **FILE**

FBI opens full domestic terrorism investigation into Gilroy mass shooting

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
This undated photo provided by the Dayton Police Department shows Connor Betts. The 24-year-old masked gunman in body armor opened fire early Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, in a popular entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio, killing several people, including his sister, and wounding dozens before he was quickly slain by police, officials said. (Dayton Police Department via AP)

Brother of Parkland victim accuses Dems of ‘hypocrisy’ for ignoring leftist Dayton shooter

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers (right) said his Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh is compiling a book to help communities cope with mass shootings. (Associated Press/File)

‘Myth’: Narrative of rampant white nationalist mass shootings overblown

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times
A teenager wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat, center left, stands in front of an elderly Native American singing and playing a drum in Washington, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington in Kentucky is looking into this and other videos from a rally in Washington. (Survival Media Agency via AP) **FILE**

Covington Catholic teens sue Elizabeth Warren, media figures

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

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