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Researcher gets international help looking into 1948 killing

By DANA GRAY - Associated Press

US says Sudan cutting trade, military ties to North Korea

By JOSH LEDERMAN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, The U.S. Embassy with its national flag, seen behind a monument to the Workers of 1905 Revolution in Moscow, Russia. The U.S. State Department says it has duly screened a Russian private security firm contracted to help guard the Moscow Embassy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

US says Russian security firm duly screened to guard embassy

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this May 2, 2015 photo provided by Biber Architects, the U.S. pavilion at the Milano Expo is shown. The high-tech United States pavilion built for the 2015 world’s fair in Italy has left a legacy of unpaid bills. The government-designated nonprofit that ran the pavilion at the Milan Expo has gone bankrupt with $28 million in debts. (Paul Warchol/Biber Architects via AP)

US showpiece at world’s fair leaves a legacy of unpaid bills

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, departs Federal District Court, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Paul Manafort’s multiple passports scrutinized by Senate Democrat

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2016, file photo provided by the Samoa News, Dean Jay Fletcher, left, is escorted by a police officer after his initial appearance in the District Court of American Samoa in Pago Pago, American Samoa. A U.S. judge in Hawaii has ordered the release of U.S. citizen Fletcher, being held for extradition to Tonga, where he's accused of beating his wife to death, escaping police and sailing some 300 miles to American Samoa. (Ausage Fausia/SamoaNews via AP, File)

US won’t extradite American charged with murder to Tonga

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and AUDREY McAVOY - Associated Press

This Jan. 25, 2010, file photo, shows the United States Department of State seal on a podium at the State Department in Washington. America’s registered child sex offenders will now have to use passports identifying them for their past crimes when traveling overseas. The State Department said Wednesday it would begin revoking passports of registered child sex offenders and requiring them to apply for a new one that carries a “unique identifier” of their status. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Child sex offenders to be named as such in U.S. passports

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

House State Government Committee Chairman Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Butler, left, speaks during a hearing in Harrisburg, Pa., Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. Pennsylvania election officials said non-citizen immigrants illegally voted hundreds of times in elections spanning 18 years, although that may not be the full number. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania finds 544 possibly illegal ballots since 2000

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

In this Oct. 19, 2017 photo, a rose blooms in front of the vacant Serbian embassy in Washington. Washington residents and politicians are up in arms about an only-in-DC phenomenon: a string of former embassies and diplomatic buildings whose governments have essentially abandoned them. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Down and out in DC: What can be done about diplomatic dumps?

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, a U.S. flag flies at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. The Associated Press has obtained a recording of what some U.S. Embassy workers heard in Havana, part of the series of unnerving incidents later deemed to be deliberate attacks. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Foreign Affairs’ Wilson calls on State to probe Cuba attacks

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, June 5, 2017, a refugee pastor from the Yei area of South Sudan, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from South Sudanese intelligence officials, covers his face with his Bible inscribed with the word &quot;Redemption,&quot; promising revenge, as he is photographed in his hut in Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in northern Uganda. When the region of Yei in South Sudan fell into ethnic cleansing in 2016, a handful of UN and US officials begged their leaders for help but the pleas fell on deaf ears, an AP investigation has found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Correction: South Sudan-Failure to Act story

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, speaks following a meeting with President Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Trump challenged Tillerson to “compare IQ tests,” delivering a sharp-edged ribbing that threw a bright spotlight on his seemingly shaky relationship with his top diplomat. The White House insisted he was only joking. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump’s jibe deepens feud with Tillerson; he was joking?

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, speaks following a meeting with President Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. Trump challenged Tillerson to “compare IQ tests,” delivering a sharp-edged ribbing that threw a bright spotlight on his seemingly shaky relationship with his top diplomat. The White House insisted he was only joking. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump’s jibe deepens feud with Tillerson; he was joking?

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

US: A few visitors to Cuba claim symptoms similar to attacks

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes a statement at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

The Latest: Trump has ‘total confidence’ in Tillerson

Associated Press

In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, a U.S. flag flies at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Senior U.S. officials say the United States is pulling roughly 60 percent of its staff out of Cuba and warning American travelers not to visit due to “specific attacks” that have harmed U.S. diplomats. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

The Latest: Americans advised to stay away from Cuba

Associated Press

In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, a U.S. flag flies at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Senior U.S. officials say the United States is pulling roughly 60 percent of its staff out of Cuba and warning American travelers not to visit due to “specific attacks” that have harmed U.S. diplomats. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Travel industry sticking with trips to Cuba from US

By BETH HARPAZ and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a Security Council meeting, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) ** FILE **

Rex Tillerson to meet top Cuban envoy amid probe into ‘attacks’

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman - Associated Press

Huma Abedin, a longtime assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been under investigation for a $33,000 payout from the State Department. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Huma Abedin’s mom urged exclusion of ‘freedom’ in Hillary Clinton’s Saudi speech, emails reveal

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

While President Trump privately urges the State Department to speed up its release of Hillary Clinton's emails, administration attorneys have been in court defending a slow security review process. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s State Department slows Hillary Clinton email release

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times