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Judge blocks certification of Democrats’ win in Virginia redistricting referendum

An election worker tears off "I Voted" stickers during the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

A Virginia judge has stopped the state from certifying the results of Tuesday’s referendum in which voters narrowly approved Democrats’ new gerrymandered congressional map.

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Ship seizures raise tensions in the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. navigates peace talks with Iran

A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

By Vaughn Cockayne and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Iran’s naval forces fired on and seized two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, as Tehran and U.S. forces vied for control of critical waterways and the upper hand in tenuous peace talks.

A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

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Ship seizures raise tensions in the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. navigates peace talks with Iran

By Vaughn Cockayne and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., raises his fist after speaking at a campaign event for a proposed "billionaires tax" in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

The Energizer Bernie: Sanders building progressive army for the next generation

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a service for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Dec. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Supreme Court ponders deporting green card holders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

China’s DF-26 ballistic missiles worry the U.S. because they can be fired from long ranges with enough precision to attack a moving ship. (Associated Press)

‘Rapidly advancing’: DIA warns of China’s expanding missile threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan speaks, as President Donald Trump listens, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Navy secretary out in latest high-level departure from Trump’s Pentagon

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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China’s DF-26 ballistic missiles worry the U.S. because they can be fired from long ranges with enough precision to attack a moving ship. (Associated Press)

‘Rapidly advancing’: DIA warns of China’s expanding missile threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan speaks, as President Donald Trump listens, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Navy secretary out in latest high-level departure from Trump’s Pentagon

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Bill Burke says he was struck by a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr., in a crash that killed counterprotester Heather Heyer, during the August 2017 rally in Charlottesville. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP) ** FILE **

SPLC raked in donations after Unite the Right rally allegedly facilitated by its paid informant

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A City of Phoenix worker sets recycle bins in place as the Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire departments set up a drive thru donations station at the Phoenix Convention Center for needed donations of paper products and medical supplies Saturday, March 21, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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WATCH: Businesses forced to bankroll blue states’ failing recycling programs

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, on April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Shocker: Taxpayers foot the bill for Trump’s failed tariffs

By Joseph Curl

FILE - Dish Network satellite dishes are shown at an apartment complex in Palo Alto, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Is everyone in Washington on the spectrum?

By Stephen Moore

FILE - A box of ivermectin is shown in a pharmacy as pharmacists work in the background in Georgia, on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Why is ivermectin’s potential as a cancer drug being quashed?

By Anath Hartmann

White House Correspondents’ Association dinner and President Donald Trump illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Trump at the correspondents’ dinner

By Cal Thomas

The good and evil of artificial intelligence (AI) illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What the AI fight’s really about

By Michael McKenna

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In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Bill Burke says he was struck by a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr., in a crash that killed counterprotester Heather Heyer, during the August 2017 rally in Charlottesville. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP) ** FILE **

SPLC raked in donations after Unite the Right rally allegedly facilitated by its paid informant

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is seen following a media tour intended to show building damage, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Inside the Kennedy Center as it prepares for a 2-year renovation

By Steven Sloan - Associated Press

Student Surya Newa is silhouetted while using an oral AI agent during class at NYU Stern School of Business, March 4, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI

By Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

YouTube personality MrBeast, aka Jimmy Donaldson, watches a contestant's shot in a free throw shooting contest that he sponsored at the conclusion of an NCAA college basketball game between USC Upstate and North Carolina, Dec. 13, 2025, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Seward, File)

MrBeast employee alleges she was harassed for years and fired after maternity leave in a new lawsuit

By Claire Savage and James Pollard - Associated Press

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A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz, Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)

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Ship seizures raise tensions in the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. navigates peace talks with Iran

By Vaughn Cockayne and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan speaks, as President Donald Trump listens, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club, Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)

Navy secretary out in latest high-level departure from Trump’s Pentagon

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 17, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File)

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Japan could become a major arms exporter amid tensions with China

Wednesday, April 22 2026

The Pentagon is seen from an airplane, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Pentagon to seek $1.5 trillion in next year’s budget, including more for ships, drones, pay raises

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Trump Central View all

A Michigan voter inserts her absentee voter ballot into a drop box in Troy, Mich. on Oct. 15, 2020. After the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and his supporters claimed thousands of votes had been cast fraudulently on behalf of dead voters, even naming specific deceased people whose ballots were supposedly counted. But these claims, which spread in many states including Arizona, Virginia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, were found to be false. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Trump alleges Virginia pro-Democrat referendum vote was ‘rigged,’ lays blame on mail-in ballots

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump dances after speaking at a Turning Point USA event at Dream City Church, Friday, April 17, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Trump announces Iranian female protesters won’t be executed

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

China's President Xi Jinping holds a talk with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Iori Sagisawa/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Trump suggests China got caught by U.S. sending military aid to Iran

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump departs after speaking at an event for NCAA national champions in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s economic approval rating craters to 30%: Poll

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Politics View all

A City of Phoenix worker sets recycle bins in place as the Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire departments set up a drive thru donations station at the Phoenix Convention Center for needed donations of paper products and medical supplies Saturday, March 21, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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WATCH: Businesses forced to bankroll blue states’ failing recycling programs

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

An election worker tears off "I Voted" stickers during the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Judge blocks certification of Democrats’ win in Virginia redistricting referendum

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Committee on Finance hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

RFK Jr. refuses to let lawmakers blame him for the measles outbreak

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

U.S. health officials nix publication of a study on COVID vaccine effectiveness

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

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A view of Los Alamos National Laboratory's National Security Science Building in Los Alamos, N.M., in September 2024 (Los Alamos National Laboratory via AP) **FILE**

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‘Serious stuff’: Trump seeks answers to missing, dead scientists; FBI, Pentagon investigate pattern

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks at rally at the Health and Human Services headquarters to protest the polices of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell) ** FILE **

More Democrats, fewer Republicans, to address college graduates as anti-Trump tensions grow

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Family members of fallen civil rights activists view the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., during a private family viewing on Nov. 5, 1989. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) **FILE**

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Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud charges

By Valerie Richardson and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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They use it daily but don’t trust it: Gen Z’s complicated relationship with AI

By Juliet La Sala - The Washington Times

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The prediction market app Kalshi is displayed on a mobile phone, April 16, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Kalshi fines and suspends three congressional candidates for wagering on their own elections

By Jesse Bedayn and Safiyah Riddle - Associated Press

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen delivers his State of the State address, Jan. 25, 2023, at the the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. (Anna Reed/Omaha World-Herald via AP, File)

Nebraska agrees to end in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This image made from video provided by KCRG shows Iowa City police officers working the scene of a downtown shooting near the University of Iowa campus on Sunday, April 19, 2026. (KCRG via AP)

Police seek 17-year-old for attempted murder in shooting near University of Iowa, authorities say

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A train arrives at Metro Center station, April 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

11 hurt after vehicle crashes into Metro train in D.C.

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, an Abbey Gate Gold Star family member, reaches to touch the photograph of her son, after a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Pentagon upgrades medals for Marines at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan when suicide bomber killed 13

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City on Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) **FILE**

Mexico’s government keeps contradicting itself over role of CIA agents in Chihuahua operation

By María Verza and Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

China’s DF-26 ballistic missiles worry the U.S. because they can be fired from long ranges with enough precision to attack a moving ship. (Associated Press)

‘Rapidly advancing’: DIA warns of China’s expanding missile threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A general view of a pumping station at the end of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the east German refinery PCK in Schwedt, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Sven Kaestner, File)

Hungary to lift ban on EU loan to Ukraine after Kyiv repairs oil pipeline from Russia

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sports View all

Washington Commanders general manager Adam Peters speaks during a press conference at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Offensive weapon or defensive pillar? Commanders have decision to make

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

Fireworks explode during the singing of the national anthem before an opening day baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Atlanta Braves Thursday, March 27, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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LOVERRO: Record price for Padres likely to gum up works for eventual Nationals sale

By Thom Loverro

In this Oct. 30, 1974, file photo, referee Zack Clayton, right, steps in after challenger Muhammad Ali looks on after knocking down defending heavyweight champion George Foreman in the eighth round of their championship bout in Kinshasa, Zaire. (AP Photo/File)

Muhammad Ali’s grandson tells Congress to stay out of the boxing ring

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Washington Capitals defenseman Rasmus Sandin (38) lined up outside the faceoff circle during the second period of an NHL game against the New Jersey Devils at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2026. (Photo for the Washington Times) ** FILE **

Capitals’ Sandin tears ACL, expected to miss start of next season

By Liam Griffin - The Washington Times

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Students work under Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights posters on display in a classroom at Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Appeals court upholds state law requiring posting of Ten Commandments in classrooms

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A parishioner prays at St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church in Reading, Pa., June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao, File)

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Faith is what really matters

By Timothy S. Goeglein

President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible, Sept. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump reads aloud Bible verse as part of weeklong faith event

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Family members of fallen civil rights activists view the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., during a private family viewing on Nov. 5, 1989. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) **FILE**

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Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud charges

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In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Bill Burke says he was struck by a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr., in a crash that killed counterprotester Heather Heyer, during the August 2017 rally in Charlottesville. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP) ** FILE **

SPLC raked in donations after Unite the Right rally allegedly facilitated by its paid informant

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A City of Phoenix worker sets recycle bins in place as the Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire departments set up a drive thru donations station at the Phoenix Convention Center for needed donations of paper products and medical supplies Saturday, March 21, 2020, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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WATCH: Businesses forced to bankroll blue states’ failing recycling programs

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump departs after speaking at an event for NCAA national champions in the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s economic approval rating craters to 30%: Poll

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before a Senate Committee on Finance hearing on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

RFK Jr. refuses to let lawmakers blame him for the measles outbreak

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents execute a criminal search warrant on May 30, 2025, at Buona Forchetta in San Diego, Calif. (Lara Azevedo-McCaffrey/KPBS via AP) **FILE**

Appeals court blocks California’s No Vigilantes law forcing ICE to display names while on duty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Michigan voter inserts her absentee voter ballot into a drop box in Troy, Mich. on Oct. 15, 2020. After the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and his supporters claimed thousands of votes had been cast fraudulently on behalf of dead voters, even naming specific deceased people whose ballots were supposedly counted. But these claims, which spread in many states including Arizona, Virginia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Georgia, were found to be false. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Trump alleges Virginia pro-Democrat referendum vote was ‘rigged,’ lays blame on mail-in ballots

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a roundtable event with President Donald Trump about no tax on tips, Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Lucas Peltier)

Bessent says gas prices will return to low levels, defends oil sanctions relief

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

People rehearse ahead of the NFL football draft, Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh students doing remote, ‘asynchronous’ learning during NFL draft

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, file photo, a person drops applications for mail-in-ballots into a mailbox in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Democratic senators urge Postal Service to defy Trump order on mail-in voting

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, an Abbey Gate Gold Star family member, reaches to touch the photograph of her son, after a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Pentagon upgrades medals for Marines at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan when suicide bomber killed 13

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Democratic U.S. Rep. David Scott speaks to reporters, March 4, 2024, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, after qualifying to run for reelection to Congress in suburban Atlanta's 13th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Rep. David Scott dies suddenly just weeks before primary election in bid for 13th term

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

Metropolitan Police Department's MP DC decal emblem badge shown on a police vehicle. File photo credit: DCStockPhotography via Shutterstock.

D.C. police find toddler who had gone missing after mother was gunned down

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

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Driver sues family of pedestrian he struck and killed for damages, claiming collision led to PTSD

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 30, 1974, file photo, referee Zack Clayton, right, steps in after challenger Muhammad Ali looks on after knocking down defending heavyweight champion George Foreman in the eighth round of their championship bout in Kinshasa, Zaire. (AP Photo/File)

Muhammad Ali’s grandson tells Congress to stay out of the boxing ring

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

In this May 8, 2008, photo, a butcher spreads out rotisserie-roasted chicken at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) **FILE**

Got drumsticks? Bill would allow SNAP participants to buy hot rotisserie chicken

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

A train arrives at Metro Center station, April 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

11 hurt after vehicle crashes into Metro train in D.C.

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen delivers his State of the State address, Jan. 25, 2023, at the the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. (Anna Reed/Omaha World-Herald via AP, File)

Nebraska agrees to end in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 17, 2025. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Japan accelerates military upgrades, embraces arms exports, leans in on Indo-Pacific partnerships

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

A plane comes in for landing as Lufthansa aircraft are parked at the airport due to a two-day strike by Lufthansa pilots, in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, March 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Major airline cancels 20K flights to save on fuel costs due to Middle East shortfall

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A woman, right, throws flowers over the coffins of Hezbollah fighters, who were killed before the ceasefire in the war between Hezbollah and Israel, during a mass funeral procession in the southern village of Kfar Sir, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Trump extends Iran ceasefire, citing ‘seriously fractured’ government in Tehran as peace talks stall

By Vaughn Cockayne and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times