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Illustration on welfare and poverty by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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The budget plan by President Trump released this week "notes a lack of a clear federal role for supporting the cost of higher education specifically for District residents." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney acknowledged that the 2019 budget plan leaves big deficits, but he said this would have been even worse without some $3 trillion in cuts over the next decade that President Trump suggested. Mr. Mulvaney said that he warned Congress last year that both parties need to reduce their spending. testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, on President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enter an apartment complex looking for a specific undocumented immigrant convicted of a felony during an early morning operation in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File) ** FILE **
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"We want to do two things: protect Dreamers and get 60 votes," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. "It's not an easy needle to thread. But we're making good headway." (Associated Press)
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Migrant Investment Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on proposed "heartbeat" legislation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Actor and comedian Bill Murray praised Republican tax reform as a "fantastic thing" for business and criticized identity politics in a CNBC interview aired Friday. (CNBC)
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Kehinde Wiley, the artist who painted former President Barack Obama's official presidential portrait unveiled Monday, is facing scrutiny for past works that depict black women decapitating white women. (
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Poland and Immigration Policy Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, speaks at a news conference as he visits students of Year Up Chicago, a one-year long job training program that provides low-income young adults, Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Chicago. The senator present at a White House immigration meeting says President Donald Trump used vulgar language to describe African countries, saying he "said these hate filled things and he said them repeatedly." (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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Interest in UFOs is on the radar once again with a new Marist Poll revealing the nation's surprising sentiments toward extraterrestrials. (NASA)
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age old: Tackle football would be banned for children younger than 14 under a bill filed in the Maryland General Assembly. Critics say it amounts to government overreach, but supporters say children's well-being should come first. (Associated Press)
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Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee member Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., questions state insurance commissioners during a hearing on the individual health insurance market for 2018 on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Hillary Clinton and her operatives A criminal referral released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, Iowa Republican, discloses that Mr. Steele wrote a previously undisclosed Oct. 19, 2016 memo. It wasn’t part of the 35-page dossier posed on Jan. 10, 2017 by BuzzFeed. The referral extracts one highly redacted paragraph that refers to information going to Mr. Steele from an Obama State Department official and two Hillary Clinton associations. Mr. Steele’s full Oct. 19 memo remains classified by the FBI. In a previous letter, Mr. Grassley asked the Democratic National Committee to provide any communications it conducted with Clinton operatives Sid Blumenthal and Cody Shearer.
