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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Tom Howell Jr.

This image made from video provided by WCVB-TV, shows Jack Teixeira, in a T-shirt and shorts, being taken into custody by armed tactical agents on Thursday, April 13, 2023, in Dighton, Mass. (WCVB-TV via AP, File)

Pentagon online leaker pleads guilty, faces 16 years in prison

A Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of putting hundreds of highly classified Pentagon documents online in part to impress his gamer friends pleaded guilty Monday in exchange for a likely sentence of 16 years in prison. Published March 4, 2024

Allen Weisselberg, right, is escorted to Manhattan criminal court, Monday, March 4, 2024, in New York. Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney Monday morning for arraignment on new criminal charges, the prosecutor's office said. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Former Trump Org. CFO pleads guilty to perjury

Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer for the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday to perjury charges related to his testimony in the New York attorney general's probe of the real estate company's finances. Published March 4, 2024

A woman rides a scooter past a graffiti calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, in Kfar Saba, Israel, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas, Israel say Biden out of touch with premature cease-fire talk

President Biden has finally managed to unite Israel and Hamas on one point -- both sides say Mr. Biden's prediction of an imminent cease-fire and prisoner-swap deal is wildly optimistic and out of touch with the realities on the ground. Published February 27, 2024

A container with frozen embryos and sperm stored in liquid nitrogen is removed at a fertility clinic in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments. The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

DNC runs billboards tying Trump to Alabama’s IVF upheaval

The Democratic National Committee is placing in eight swing states 40 billboards that tie former President Donald Trump's appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court to an Alabama ruling that upended in vitro fertilization there. Published February 27, 2024

Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel arrives on stage before House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at an event on Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. McDaniel says she will leave her post on March 8. She's leaving the GOP’s national leadership as Donald Trump moves toward another presidential nomination and asserts new control over the party. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Ronna McDaniel will step down as RNC chair on March 8

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said Monday she will step down in March as former President Donald Trump coasts toward the presidential nomination and shapes the organization to his liking. Published February 26, 2024

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis takes the stand during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP)

Willis-Wade testimony doubted, thanks to cellphone records

Newly uncovered cellphone records show special prosecutor Nathan Wade visited the Atlanta-area neighborhood where District Attorney Fani Willis lived nearly three dozen times before he was hired by her office in 2021 to work on the election subversion investigation of former President Donald Trump. Published February 23, 2024

In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018 photo, containers holding frozen embryos and sperm are stored in liquid nitrogen at a fertility clinic in Fort Myers, Fla. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024, that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a ruling critics said could have sweeping implications for fertility treatments. The decision was issued in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Biden condemns Alabama IVF ruling, vows to fight back

President Biden on Thursday drew a straight line between the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the broad right to abortion and a ruling in Alabama that said frozen embryos from in-vitro fertilization treatments are considered children and could be subject to wrongful death suits if destroyed. Published February 22, 2024

Technician in blue gloves does a control check of the in vitro fertilization process using a microscope. (Photo credit: bezikus via Shutterstock) **FILE**

GOP contenders grapple with in vitro’s place in abortion debate

An Alabama court ruling that says frozen embryos created by in vitro fertilization are considered children -- and could trigger wrongful death laws if they are destroyed -- is scrambling the fraught politics around abortion in the heat of an election year. Published February 22, 2024