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Falling rent prices across U.S. stir debate about how much credit to give Trump’s mass deportations

A "For Rent" sign displays outside an apartment building during a cold day in Chicago on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

The cost of rent is dropping, and the Trump administration is taking credit for it, citing immigration policies that have halted the flood of illegal immigrants and forced out millions of people living in the United States illegally.

Senate GOP considers forcing Democrats to keep talking if they want to filibuster voter ID bill

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., center, joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, speaks to reporters following a closed-door GOP strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

Senate Republicans have enough support in their ranks to pass a voter ID bill, but to do it, they likely need to resort to an old-fashioned talking filibuster to break Democrats’ blockade.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., center, joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the GOP whip, speaks to reporters following a closed-door GOP strategy session, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Senate GOP considers forcing Democrats to keep talking if they want to filibuster voter ID bill

By Lindsey McPherson - The Washington Times

From left, Javier Milei, President of Argentina, President Donald Trump, and Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, during a signing of the Board of Peace charter during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

European Union to send observer to Trump’s Board of Peace meeting

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

An Ajax Ares tank, an armored personnel carrier, is driven on the training range at Bovington Camp, a British Army military base, during a visit by Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, who is viewing Ukrainian soldiers training on Challenger 2 tanks, in Dorset, England, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (Ben Birchall/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

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The Capitol is seen in Washington, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Catholic Democrats say ICE is violating God’s will with deportation surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi, left, hold a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

Iran meets U.N. nuclear watchdog in Geneva ahead of a second round of U.S. talks

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Catholic Democrats say ICE is violating God’s will with deportation surge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi, left, hold a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. (Iranian Foreign Ministry via AP)

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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, departs the chamber at the Capitol in Washington, on July 24, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Susan Collins embraces SAVE America Act as GOP bets voter ID law is winner with electorate

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People waiting to vote Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, stand in a long line that wrapped around the Alaska Division of Elections regional office in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) **FILE**

Ranked choice voting add wrinkle for GOP in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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Raw sewage floods a service building after a massive sewage pipe rupture in Glen Echo, Md., Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Potomac River sewage dump: Where is the liberal environmental outrage?

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Presidents Day, a scam designed to rob us of our history

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A long-overdue reckoning coming for the transgender racket

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Actor Robert Duvall arrives for the screening of the film "We Own the Night" at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 25, 2007. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) **FILE**

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Jeff Robb, a Seattle resident wintering in Tucson, signs a banner supporting Nancy Guthrie in Tucson Ariz., on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil)

Trump threatens death penalty for Nancy Guthrie’s kidnappers

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A man runs in front of a bull during the "Carnaval del Toro" in Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. (AP Photo/ Jose Vicente) **FILE**

Bull fatally gores elderly man at Carnival of the Bull in Spain

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Barack Obama talks to Julius Erving during the NBA All-Star basketball game Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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In this file image, Gwede Mantashe, national chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC), speaks to the media at the Independent Electoral Commission Results Center in Pretoria, South Africa Thursday, May 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Cape Town conference highlights rising tensions over U.S. moves to secure rare earth deals in Africa

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Polish President Karol Nawrocki meets senior citizens and signs a draft law to their benefit during a visit to the public library in Sochaczew, near Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Pope Army Airfield, in Fort Bragg, N.C., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, en route to Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

From left, Javier Milei, President of Argentina, President Donald Trump, and Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, during a signing of the Board of Peace charter during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

European Union to send observer to Trump’s Board of Peace meeting

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Workers (foreground) stand Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, in an area that features a life-sized representation (behind) of a device that will use magnets to create the conditions for fusion to happen, at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, in Devens, Mass. Commonwealth is trying to create fusion inside what's called a tokamak. Nuclear fusion, which would be a new source of carbon-free energy, melds two hydrogen atoms together to produce a helium atom and a lot of energy. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) ** FILE **

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President Donald Trump speaks during a Board of Peace charter announcement during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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