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Trump donor to plead guilty to hiding work as foreign agent

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Congresswoman: Police investigating intimate photo release

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, that the company’s planned Libra cryptocurrency won’t launch unless all U.S. regulators approve. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Facebook says Libra won’t launch without US approval

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

Los Angeles sanctuary policy releases 100 criminals a day: ICE

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This cover image released by Abrams shows &quot;The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power,&quot; by Elizabeth D. Herman and Celeste Sloman. (Abrams via AP)

Review: The New York Times celebrates women in power

By JENNIFER FORKER - Associated Press

Boeing says it regrets concerns over internal messages

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In this Oct. 17, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Syrian mission-accomplished moment

By CALVIN WOODWARD, HOPE YEN and and LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

In this June 12, 2019, file photo, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., wields his gavel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Cummings says in a letter to White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney that he wants all documents &quot;memorializing communications between President Trump and the leader of any other foreign country&quot; that relate to Trump's efforts to pressure the Ukrainian president. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Elijah Cummings, House Oversight chairman, dies at 68

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 5, 2019, photo, a student waits for a bus outside the abandoned John C. Clark Elementary and Middle School in Hartford, Conn. The school was closed in 2015 after toxic PCBs were found during a renovation. Many students in the neighborhood now must travel long distances to get to other schools. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

Toxic PCBs linger in schools; EPA, lawmakers fail to act

By Tammy Webber and Martha Irvine - Associated Press

In this Oct. 7, 2019, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., addresses the Kentucky chapters conference of The Federalist Society at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) **FILE**

Mitch McConnell: Congress limited in ability to stop Trump’s Syria pullout

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, speaks with members of the media alongside Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., outside of the West Wing of the White House after a meeting with President Donald Trump, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Nancy Pelosi walks out on Trump ‘meltdown’ after House Syria rebuke

By Tom Howell Jr. and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Editorials from around New York

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In tjhis Aug. 2017 file photo then Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a press briefing in Bridgewater, N.J. The book by former VA Secretary David Shulkin, obtained by The Associated Press, describes a March 6, 2017, conversation in the Oval Office where the president explored ways in which the administration could act quickly in shuttering the government-run VA medical centers that he viewed as poorly performing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Book: Trump mulled order to close parts of VA health system

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

From left, Democratic presidential candidates, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, businessman Tom Steyer, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and former Housing Secretary Julian Castro stand on stage for a photo before a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

2020 Democrats embrace Trump impeachment

By S.A. Miller and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Illustration on radio airplay fees by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Imposing fees on radio airplay

By Andrew Langer

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., from left, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg all gesture to speak during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN/New York Times at Otterbein University, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

The Latest: Democrats suggest ways to ensure abortion rights

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In this May 22, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with South Korean President Moon Jae-In in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, as then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, right, watches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

John Bolton to aide: Giuliani is ‘a hand grenade’ regarding Ukraine scheme, go tell lawyers: Report

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., looks on as former White House Counsel Donald McGahn addresses the Kentucky chapters conference of The Federalist Society at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) **FILE**

Congress struggles to counter Donald Trump on Syria

By Stephen Dinan and Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Former White House advisor on Russia, Fiona Hill, leaves Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, after testifying before congressional lawmakers as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Vivid details emerge on Ukraine as impeachment quickens

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK and LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This July 16, 1945, file photo, shows the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, N.M. A fight is raging in courts and Congress over where radioactive materials should be stored and how to safely get the dangerous remnants of decades of bomb-making and power generation to a permanent resting place. (AP Photo/File)

Has tech made it safer to move nukes? Depends whom you ask

By SCOTT SONNER - Associated Press