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Indiana governor supports GOP repeal of Obama health law

By BRIAN SLODYSKO - Associated Press

Rather than celebrating the Nebraska Public Service Commission's decision and vowing to break ground immediately, TransCanada took a much different tone after the vote and offered no assurances that it will use the PSC-approved permit. (Associated Press/File)

AP sources: US to approve Keystone XL pipeline

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2017, during an event marking seven years since former President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Standing left is California Gov. Jerry Brown. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: Pa. moderate Dent to vote no on health bill

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Take that! Pyongyang lambastes Trump as too much like Obama

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Wolf urges mixed Pennsylvania delegation to defeat GOP bill

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

New Mexico sees stark financial choices in health overhaul

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif, walks out of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 22, 2017,to speak with reporters after a meeting with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Spying claim by Intel chair renews fight over Russia probe

By JULIE PACE and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Kentucky Exposition Center, Monday, March 20, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump to GOP: Pass health care bill or seal your fate

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

FILE- In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, thick smoke billows into the sky from the area behind the Statue of Liberty, lower left, where the World Trade Center towers stood. A bill passed by Congress allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government has reinforced to some in the Arab world a long-held view that the U.S. only demands justice for its own victims of terrorism, despite decades of controversial U.S. interventions around the world. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer, File)

Families of 9/11 victims sue Saudi Arabia, accuse country of funding al Qaeda

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FBI Director James Comey, left, accompanied by National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, before the House Intelligence hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

FBI confirms investigation into Trump campaign ties with Russia

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price joins the Republican Conference to push for unity on advancing the GOP's "Obamacare" replacement bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March, 17, 2017. From left at rear are Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, Rep. Susan Brooks, R-Ind., and Rep. Drew Ferguson, R-Ga. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare socialist mindset — a legacy that lasts

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sees the United States "more engaged" in the fight against the Islamic State under President Trump. (Associated Press)

Haider al-Abadi, Iraq prime minister, sees U.S. ‘more engaged’ in terror fight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March, 14, 2017. The White House and Republican leaders in Congress are scrambling to shore up support for their health care bill after findings from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 14 million people would lose insurance coverage in the first year alone under the GOP replacement for Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chuck Schumer, tool of the left, skews truth to hit at Trump

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This Jan. 9, 2014, file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. The Air Force is quietly shrinking its deployed force of long-range nuclear missiles as part of a holdover Obama administration plan to comply with an arms control treaty with Russia, The Associated Press has learned. The plan is proceeding despite President Donald Trump’s argument that the deal gave Moscow an unfair advantage in strategic nuclear firepower. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

Air Force arsenal of land-based nukes shrinking as planned

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

In this Nov. 17, 2016 file photo, security personnel stand at the front entrance of Trump Tower in New York. There is no indication that Trump Tower was “the subject of surveillance” by the U.S. government before or after the 2016 election, the top two members of the Senate intelligence committee said Thursday, March 16, 2017, directly contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims.“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,” Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C. and Mark Warner, D-Va., said in a one-sentence joint statement Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trump wiretap claims? Well, Obama did secretly spy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 7, 2016 photo, Josh Vallum is photographed in the George County Regional Correctional Facility in Lucedale, Miss. Vallum, an ex-convict and top-ranking gang member, faces life in prison without parole for killing 17-year-old Mercedes Williamson, a transgender woman. (Tim Isbell/The Sun Herald via AP)

LGBT community worries about hate crime prosecutions

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 7, 2017, file photo, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks with reporters about the committee's investigation into Russia's involvement in the recent U.S. presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Sunday, March 19, 2017, Schiff and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., were among a number of lawmakers who said on news shows they had seen no evidence that the Obama administration ordered wiretaps on Donald Trump during the campaign. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

The Latest: Manafort says he had ‘no role’ in DNC hack

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FILE - This Jan. 9, 2014, file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. The Air Force is quietly shrinking its deployed force of long-range nuclear missiles as part of a holdover Obama administration plan to comply with an arms control treaty with Russia, The Associated Press has learned. The plan is proceeding despite President Donald Trump’s argument that the deal gave Moscow an unfair advantage in strategic nuclear firepower. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

While Trump talks tough, U.S. quietly cutting nuclear force

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

AP FACT CHECK: A Washington week of bluster

By CALVIN WOODWARD and JIM DRINKARD - Associated Press

From left, Marina Aleixo tends to the children's table as Diana Otongo, Umar Choudry and Jonas Mphiri serve themselves a meal of rice, salmon and beef stroganoff inside Aleixo and Choudry's Minneapolis home on March 5, 2017. Immigrants themselves, Aleixo and Choudry are inviting immigrant and refugee families to dinner at their home more frequently. &quot;These kind of initiatives can help us gain a better understanding of each other,&quot; Aleixo said. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Media spin be hanged — food stamps falling and that’s great

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times