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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, takes questions from reporters on the last day of Maryland's legislative session on Monday, April 7, 2025, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore running for second term, quieting White House rumors

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

The importance of family and children illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Why married couples shouldn’t wait to have children

By Carolyn Bolton

Federal agents stage at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on Monday, July 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

Supreme Court OKs Trump’s L.A. immigration sweeps, says ethnicity ‘relevant factor’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks to the media during the Five Country Ministerial meeting at the Honourable Artillery Company in London, Monday, Sept. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Noem says roundup of Koreans at Hyundai plant in Georgia won’t deter investment in the U.S.

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Area residents received a letter that this ICE processing facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview, Ill., shown on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, will be the main processing center for President Donald Trump's immigration operation in the Chicago area, expected to last more than a month. (AP Photo/Laura Bargfeld)

ICE announces new ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ to arrest illegal immigrants in Chicago area

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This handout photo provided by the University of Maine and taken in July, 2025 shows an Asian longhorned tick. (Griffin Dill/University of Maine via AP)

Invasive, disease-carrying tick found in Maine, the farthest northeast it has been spotted

By Patrick Whittle - Associated Press

Jarvis McKenzie talks about how he was the victim of what police called a hate crime at a news conference on Thursday Aug. 21, 2025 in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

Black man shot at while waiting to go to work says South Carolina needs hate crime law

By Jeffrey Collins - Associated Press

Retirement and financial investments illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Stop making retirement a political battlefield

By Tim Hill

The left's LGBTQ indoctrination, trans killers and the war on god illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The Minneapolis massacre and the left’s war on God

By Don Feder

A woman is detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents outside a Home Depot Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Several of Trump’s immigration policies have faced lawsuits, court rulings

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

Flowers line a pathway to the Annunciation Catholic Church where Vice President JD Vance and his wife second lady Usha Vance, had arrived to pay their respects to victims of the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025. (Alex Wroblewski/ Pool via AP)

‘Religion clearly a factor’: Minneapolis Catholic school shooting comes with rise in church attacks

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - Kilmar Abrego Garcia joins supporters in a protest rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Aug. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

U.S. says it will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini because he fears deportation to Uganda

By Travid Loller - Associated Press

Relatives, friends and colleagues leave a church service for the four coworkers of the charitable organization Santa Casa da Misericordia who perished in the derailment and crash of the Gloria funicular, at the Church of Saint Roch in Lisbon, Friday, Sept. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portuguese victims of streetcar crash mourned by colleagues, friends and local residents

By Suman Naishadham and Hernan Munoz - Associated Press

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, with Ecuador's Minister of Interior John Reinberg, not shown, speaks during a press briefing at the Ecuadorian Presidential Palace, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in Quito, Ecuador. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Judge sidesteps Supreme Court, restores deportation amnesty for Venezuelans, Haitians

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Gender neutral bathroom sign. File photo credit: John Arehart via Shutterstock.

Judge shoots down Northern Virginia schools’ lawsuit to keep transgender bathrooms

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Letter to the editor: Trump, not the left, willing to help Black communities

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a human smuggling news conference Thursday Sept. 4, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

Justice Department talks about banning transgender gun owners spark fury across political spectrum

By Alanna Durkin Richer - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold a rainbow pride flag outside the Supreme Court as justices deliberate Obergefell vs. Hodges, the case that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, in Washington on April 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Traditional marriage advocates sharpen message as Supreme Court eyes challenge to same-sex marriage

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America is seen on March 26, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

ICE finds over 475 illegal workers at Hyundai plant in Georgia

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times