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A plane which carried Russian diplomats and their family members ordered to leave Britain as part of a standoff over a nerve agent attack on British soil, at Vnukovo 2 government airport outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Nearly two dozen Russian diplomats expelled by Britain over the poisoning of an ex-spy arrived home Tuesday, while a scientist involved in the creation of the nerve agent said it could be manufactured by other countries. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia-UK war of words over ex-spy’s poisoning gets uglier

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech at the Mansion House in London, Friday March 2, 2018. May promised to tell an impatient European Union on Friday what Britain is prepared to give and what it wants to take in a post-Brexit trade deal with the bloc. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)

Russian spy poisoning in U.K. soothed by investments

By Benjamin Plackett - Special to The Washington Times

In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures to supporters outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been in self-imposed exile since 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Julian Assange plans to discuss Cambridge Analytica with lawmakers

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to supporters during a rally near the Kremlin in Moscow, Sunday, March 18, 2018. An exit poll suggests that Vladimir Putin has handily won a fourth term as Russia's president, adding six more years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world's largest country for all of the 21st century. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Vladimir Putin dismisses Russian role in attack on spy Sergei Skripal

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People walk passed the British Consulate General, in St.Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Russia on Saturday announced it is expelling 23 British diplomats and threatened further measures in retaliation in a growing diplomatic dispute over a nerve agent attack on a former spy in Britain. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Putin calls UK accusations over ex-spy poisoning ‘nonsense’

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this March 7, 2018, photo, Dr. Jackie Yeager leads a conversation on the subject of mortality during a &quot;Death Cafe&quot; meeting at the La Crosse Public Library in La Crosse, Wis. Death Cafes offer a confidential, judgment-free and nondenominational environment to openly discuss concepts of mortality. (Erik Daily/La Crosse Tribune via AP)

Wisconsin Death Cafe offers place to discuss death

By EMILY PYREK - Associated Press

British national flag flutters in front of the British Embassy with the Ukraine Hotel, right, in the background, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 16, 2018. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday accused Britain of violating international law and criticized Britain's defense minister for what he called &quot;uneducated&quot; comments about Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

The Latest: Czechs, Swedes, Slovaks reject nerve agent claim

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May stands outside The Mill pub, as she views the area where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found critically ill, in Salisbury, England, Thursday, March 15, 2018. May on Wednesday expelled 23 Russian diplomats, severed high-level contacts and vowed both open and covert action following the incident. (Toby Melville/Pool Photo via AP)

Mystery surrounds how ex-Russian spy was poisoned in U.K.

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A man works to untangle the national flag flown from the Russian Embassy, after it became entangled on its staff at the embassy in London, Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Britain announced Wednesday it will expel 23 Russian diplomats, the biggest such expulsion since the Cold War, and break off high-level contacts with the Kremlin over the nerve-agent attack on a former spy and his daughter in an English town.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The Latest: Russian lawmaker: US had access to nerve agent

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Soldiers wearing protective clothing prepare to lift a tow truck in Hyde Road, Gillingham, Dorset, England as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues Wednesday March 14, 2018. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

US, France, Germany join UK in blaming Russia for spy attack

By JILL LAWLESS and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

Police officers position a screen outside the vehicle recovery business &quot;Ashley Wood Recovery&quot; in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison former-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia makes it &quot;highly likely&quot; that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Envoy denies Russia was behind attack on ex-spy

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Britain's Professor Stephen Hawking receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of London during a ceremony at the Guildhall in the City of London. Cambridge University has put Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis online on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, triggering such interest that it crashed the university's website. Completed in 1966 when Hawking was 24, "Properties of Expanding Universes" explores ideas about the origins of the universe that have resonated through the scientists career. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

Stephen Hawking died at age of 76

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A police tent covers the area where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found critically ill following exposure to the Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Russia warns UK over ultimatums, points at nukes

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Chelsea's coach Antonio Conte attends a press conference at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. FC Barcelona will play against Chelsea in a Champions League round of sixteen second leg Wednesday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Conte says he expects Chelsea to ‘suffer’ against Barcelona

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Military personnel are prepared before working to remove cars from a car park in Salisbury, England, as police and members of the armed forces probe the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent spy Sergei Skripal, Sunday March 11, 2018. British government security ministers held an emergency meeting Saturday to discuss the poisoning of former spy Skripal and his daughter Yulia, as investigations continue. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)

UK leader: Russia ‘highly likely’ behind ex-spy’s poisoning

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

A police tent in The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, England Tuesday March 6, 2018 near where Sergei Skripal was found critically ill by exposure to an unknown substance. Skripal, a former Russian spy is in critical condition after coming into contact with an &quot;unknown substance.&quot; Authorities did not identify the man, but the Press Association and other British media identified him Monday, March 5, as Sergei Skripal who was convicted in 2006 on charges of spying for Britain and sentenced to 13 years but was freed in 2010 in a U.S.-Russian spy swap. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

Britain vows response if Russia is behind ex-spy’s collapse

By MARTIN BENEDYK and JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

This file photo dated Wednesday, March 29, 2017, shows a sign outside the Comcast Center in Philadelphia. The owner of NBC and Universal Pictures, Comcast launched a bid Tuesday Feb. 27, 2018, for British pay TV broadcaster Sky that threatens to thwart the takeover ambitions of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Challenge to Murdoch: U.S. giant Comcast also bids for Sky

By Gregory Katz - Associated Press

Ohio woman who was sold as a baby finds family in Ireland

By GRAIG GRAZIOSI - Associated Press

VMI holds off Chattanooga 68-65 in Big South finale

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FILE - This January 2018, file photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Marilyn Hartman. Hartman, who authorities say is a serial stowaway, pleaded not guilty Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 after she was accused of flying ticketless from Chicago to London last month. A judge released the 66-year-old woman after the Jan. 18 incident and told her to stay away from airports. However Hartman was arrested again at O’Hare International Airport about a week later. (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)

Stowaway pleads not guilty after Chicago to London flight

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press