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Musk's $10M Kentucky bet signals return to Trump orbit ahead of midterms
By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times Elon Musk's $10 million stake in the race to succeed Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is the clearest sign yet that he is planning a return to the campaign ar...
Rex Minturn Jan 27, 2026

Protester killed Saturday in clash with ICE agents had Sig Sauer high-capacity 9mm pistol
By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times Alex Pretti, the protester who was shot and killed Saturday while clashing with federal agents, was carrying a Sig Sauer P320-AXG COMBAT, a high-capacity 9 mm pi...
Rex Minturn Jan 26, 2026

FAA denied request to reduce flight arrivals at Reagan Airport months before midair collision
By Susan Ferrechio The Washington Times Air traffic controllers concerned about safety were denied a request to decrease the number of arriving aircraft at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport be...
Rex Minturn Jan 26, 2026

DHS refutes public school official's claim that ICE agents used immigrant's 5-year-old son as 'bait'
By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times A Minnesota public school says a 5-year-old boy was "taken" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, a contention that the Department of Homeland Se...
Rex Minturn Jan 23, 2026

Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. to hold trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi
By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times Russia said it would hold trilateral security talks with U.S. and Ukrainian officials in the United Arab Emirates on Friday after a "constructive and very fra...
Rex Minturn Jan 23, 2026

Health insurance CEOs on the hot seat: Premiums up 90% since Obamacare launched 16 years ago
By Mary McCue Bell - The Washington Times Health insurance premiums have skyrocketed roughly 90% on average since Obamacare launched in March 2010, and the price of health care remains stubborn agains...
Rex Minturn Jan 22, 2026 zimmytws / Depositphotos.com

Pepco says it doesn't own land occupied by homeless people near Hyattsville-area condos
By Sean Salai - The Washington Times Pepco says it doesn't own the land occupied by a homeless encampment in the Hyattsville area, where residents of the nearby Marylander Condominiums say vagrants ha...
Rex Minturn Jan 22, 2026

Trump says emerging Greenland deal gives U.S. full access to the island
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times President Trump on Thursday said the Arctic deal under negotiation will give the U.S. "total access" to Greenland for the foreseeable future. The president is ...
Rex Minturn Jan 22, 2026

Inside job: County official took dead people, migrants' identities in California food stamp scam
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times A woman who worked as a benefit assistant for a California county has pleaded guilty to scamming the state's food stamp program by stealing the identities of de...
Rex Minturn Jan 21, 2026

House GOP rejects last-ditch bid by Clintons to escape contempt vote
The chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform panel plans to advance a contempt of Congress vote Wednesday against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,...
Rex Minturn Jan 21, 2026
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