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Justice Department removes data on Biden-era prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters from website

A banner of President Donald Trump hangs outside the U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday, March 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

The Department of Justice has removed information about Biden-era prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters from its website, calling the details of criminal indictments and convictions “partisan propaganda.”

Biden gave migrant ‘parole’ to Cuban pilot implicated in Raul Castro plot to kill Americans

The Justice Department says this photo depicts Luis Raul Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez and Lorenzo Alberto Perez-Perez, two of the pilots the U.S. says were part of Cuban’s 1996 attack that downed two humanitarian mission planes, killing four Americans. (Photo: Justice Department court filing)

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Last week’s indictment of Raul Castro and five Cuban pilots for the 1996 killing of four Americans flying humanitarian missions near Cuba had a curious footnote: One of the pilots is already in the U.S.

The Justice Department says this photo depicts Luis Raul Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez and Lorenzo Alberto Perez-Perez, two of the pilots the U.S. says were part of Cuban’s 1996 attack that downed two humanitarian mission planes, killing four Americans. (Photo: Justice Department court filing)

Biden gave migrant ‘parole’ to Cuban pilot implicated in Raul Castro plot to kill Americans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump attends an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule, in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, May 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

One day after Iran deal breakthrough, Trump taps brakes, says peace negotiators shouldn’t rush

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

VIPs bow in front of the memorial to legendary US operative and soldier General John Singlaub, who famously opposed President Jimmy Carter's initiative to withdraw US troops from South Korea, at Imjingak, just south of the DMZ. (Andrew Salmon/The Washington Times)

U.S. heroes memorialized in South Korea as ‘Forgotten War’ remembered

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks with attendees during an election night watch party after losing the Republican party's nomination at the Marriott Cincinnati Airport, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rep. Thomas Massie says breaks with Trump were ‘absolutely worth it’

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Rescue workers try to put out a fire at a residential building after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia’s hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine kills at least 2 people, wounds dozen more, Kyiv says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks with attendees during an election night watch party after losing the Republican party's nomination at the Marriott Cincinnati Airport, Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Hebron, Ky. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Rep. Thomas Massie says breaks with Trump were ‘absolutely worth it’

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Rescue workers try to put out a fire at a residential building after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia’s hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine kills at least 2 people, wounds dozen more, Kyiv says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Police and members of the Secret Service block streets around the White House, Saturday, May 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Secret Service shoots, kills man who fired shots Saturday evening outside the White House

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Minarets of a mosque are seen in cloudy weather of Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran executes man accused of spying for U.S.-Israeli side in war

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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Honor the fallen this Memorial Day by rejecting America’s bashers

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Old headstones at Leavenworth National Cemetery are marked with U.S. flags on the eve of Memorial Day, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Leavenworth, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Pokemon fossil exhibition opens at Chicago museum, the first time it’s been displayed outside Japan

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Rob Base performs during the "I Love The 90's" tour on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, at RiverEdge Park in Aurora, Ill. (Photo by Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP, File)

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In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 336th Fighter Squadron assigned to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., taxi to their parking spots after completing a NATO Enhanced Air Policing mission out of Lask Air Base, Poland, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. (Tech. Sgt. Jacob Albers/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Poland offers to build permanent U.S. troop bases to ‘clarify’ deployment situation

By John T. Seward - The Washington Times

Ukrainian servicemen of Khartia brigade check the drone aerial view in the command centre Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

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A Qatari student walks to a building in the Texas A&M University campus at Education City, on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Doha, Qatar. Texas A&M University will close its 20-year-old Qatar campus by 2028, with board members noting “heightened instability" in the Middle East as a major reason to reconsider its presence in the country. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

U.S. universities in Qatar’s ambitious Education City weather war, missile threats, skepticism

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

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President Donald Trump attends an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule, in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, May 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

One day after Iran deal breakthrough, Trump taps brakes, says peace negotiators shouldn’t rush

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., listens during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on the nomination of Adm. Kevin Lunday, acting commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, for Commandant of the Coast Guard, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump changes weekend travel plans as key Republican urges him to finish the job in Iran

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Here’s what Trump’s postponed AI executive order would have done

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President Donald Trump dances after speaking at Rockland Community College, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Suffern, N.Y. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. Thomas Massie says breaks with Trump were ‘absolutely worth it’

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A banner of President Donald Trump hangs outside the U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday, March 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Justice Department removes data on Biden-era prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters from website

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Biden gave migrant ‘parole’ to Cuban pilot implicated in Raul Castro plot to kill Americans

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Trump says draft of peace agreement is imminent; strait to open

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By Juliet La Sala - The Washington Times

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‘More real than real’: Why deep-fake political ads are fooling older Americans

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

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Former Atlanta Housing Authority executive sentenced for Section 8 and pandemic fraud

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Leopard gets loose at Washington state zoo before returning safely to habitat

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Pennsylvanian electrocuted while trying to strip wiring from power line

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

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Investigators looking for cause of fatal New York explosion that also wounded over 30 firefighters

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Rescue workers try to put out a fire at a residential building after a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Minarets of a mosque are seen in cloudy weather of Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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