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Democrat-run Virginia goes big on gun control

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, center, delivers her State of the Commonwealth address before a joint session of the Virignia General Assembly at the Capitol Monday Jan. 19, 2026, in Richmond, Va. House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, top center, Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi, top left, and Virginia Senate President Pro-tem, Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, top right, join in the welcome. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Virginia’s Democratic leaders are moving full steam ahead with their first batch of gun-control laws now that the party controls every lever of power in Richmond.

Trump called police two decades ago to report on Epstein, Maxwell

This undated redacted photo released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (House Oversight Committee via AP)

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

President Trump was one of the first people to call Palm Beach police to alert them that Jeffrey Epstein was sexually abusing teenage girls, a bombshell Justice Department file has revealed.

This undated redacted photo released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, shows Jeffrey Epstein. (House Oversight Committee via AP)

Trump called police two decades ago to report on Epstein, Maxwell

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Graduates in black caps, gowns and golden tassels listen to a speech at a community college graduation ceremony. File photo credit: Ryanzo W. Perez via Shutterstock.

States offer community college bachelor’s degrees as alternatives to pricey four-year campuses

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gestures while speaking to nurses during a visit to the National Nurses United office, Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) ** FILE **

National Nurses United posts ‘terrifying’ graphic of health care worker stomping ‘ICE’

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New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Images from X feed of FBI Director Kash Patel. "Working with our partners - as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance."

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New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie. Images from X feed of FBI Director Kash Patel. "Working with our partners - as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance."

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin listens during the annual Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on June 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

Trump to rescind ‘holy grail’ climate change regulation

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

U.S. military strike against suspected drug vessel kills two, leaves one survivor

By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn upon his arrival to the White House, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Governors’ association no longer to meet with Trump after he excludes Democrats

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

GOP lawmakers call for probe into Bad Bunny’s ‘flagrant, indecent’ halftime show

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The “Cross of Athletes” is seen during a Mass at the Basilica of San Babila, known as the Church of Athletes during the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2026. The cross travels to Olympic host cities as a symbol of faith, unity, and the values of sport. (AP Photo/María Teresa Hernandez)

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First lady Melania Trump walks from the stage after speaking before the premiere of her movie "Melania" at The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

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Indonesia says it’s preparing to send up to 8,000 troops to support Trump’s Gaza peace plan

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

This Friday, March 22, 2019, photo shows the Department of Justice Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

DOD employee moonlighted as money mule for Nigerian fraudsters: Feds

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Shiite muslims hold a placard during a protest in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026, against Friday's suicide bombing inside a Shiite mosque in Islamabad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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From left, Rodney Scott, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and Todd Lyons, acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are sworn in during a House Committee on Homeland Security oversight hearing of the Department of Homeland Security: ICE CBP and USCIS, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

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Republican state senator Blake Miguez converses before the swearing-in of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, Pool, File)

Trump’s endorsement of Louisiana lawmaker transforms primary

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Airport workers receive JetBlue flight 387, the first commercial flight between the U.S. and Cuba in more than half a century, holding United States and Cuban national flags, on the airport tarmac in Santa Clara, Cuba, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) **FILE**

Cuba warns it is running out of airline fuel as Trump dials up pressure

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seal during a news conference June 28, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Appeals court backs Trump in major fight over detaining long-time illegal immigrants

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Virginia Giuffre, center, holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens during an event with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., demands the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside Delaney Hall ICE detention facility, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

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A Dominican man, left, and an activist, right, are detained by plainclothes officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement after an immigration hearing at the immigration court inside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York, on June 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Local leaders and lawmen defy Democrat-run states’ crackdown on cooperating with ICE

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Workers (foreground) stand Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in an area that features a life-sized representation (behind) of a device that will use magnets to create the conditions for fusion to happen, at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, in Devens, Mass. Commonwealth is trying to create fusion inside what's called a tokamak. Nuclear fusion, which would be a new source of carbon-free energy, melds two hydrogen atoms together to produce a helium atom and a lot of energy. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE **

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A crowd at the National Cathedral in Washington greets the Buddhist monks at the conclusion of their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace. (Mary McCue Bell/The Washington Times)

Monks’ Walk for Peace ends in praise in Washington

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Anti-abortion demonstrators walk to the Supreme Court during the annual March for Life, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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