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Sen. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, talks with reporters after an all-senators briefing on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington on April, 26, 2017. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Chris Coons: Trump administration needs to act on Russian sanctions

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke gave Florida a waiver out of the offshore drilling proposal. Now more states are also trying to get passes out of the energy plan. (Associated Press)

Governors want offshore oil drilling exemptions, too

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

$California Attorney General Xavier Becerra discusses the lawsuit he has brought against the Trump administration for rolling back a fracking rule during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. The suit challenges the federal Bureau of Land Managements rollback of the rule that requires drilling companies to disclose what chemicals they've used for fracking. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)$

California sues Trump administration over fracking rule

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt participates in a news conference near the steps of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The Trump administration’s embrace of work requirements for low-income people on Medicaid is prompting lawmakers in some conservative holdout states to reconsider expanding the program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Work requirements may prompt more states to expand Medicaid

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks on intelligence issues at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Mike Pompeo, CIA director: North Korea leader may be getting bad information from inner circle

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, who said he has been a Republican longer than President Trump, said there are times he will agree with him and times he will oppose his policies. (Associated Press/File)

Republican governors in New England defy Donald Trump, gain voter approval

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

A large portion of the construction workforce in the District of Columbia and elsewhere across the nation is made up of Salvadorans with temporary protected status. (Associated Press/File)

TPS end puts El Salvador immigrants, D.C. construction companies in bind

By Julia Airey - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file image made from undated video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Sept. 3, 2017, North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un holds the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Japan's public broadcaster mistakenly sent an alert warning citizens of a North Korean missile launch and urging them to seek immediate shelter, then retracted it minutes later, days after a similar error in Hawaii. NHK television issued the message Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 on its internet and mobile news sites as well as on Twitter, saying North Korea appeared to have fired a missile at Japan. NHK deleted its tweet after several minutes, issued a correction and apologized several times on air. (KRT via AP Video, file)

Kim Jong-un may be getting bad intel about Trump’s plans, CIA says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2013 file photo, former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt participates in a news conference near the steps of the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. The Trump administration’s embrace of work requirements for low-income people on Medicaid is prompting lawmakers in some conservative holdout states to reconsider expanding the program. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Trump’s move may nudge holdout GOP states to expand Medicaid

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

United Nations U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley listens during a U.N. Security Council meeting on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Thursday Jan. 18, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry: Pakistan won’t be ‘scapegoat’ for Afghan woes

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

LEFT: Military aircraft flies over Syria as seen from the outskirts of the border town of Kilis, Turkey, on Saturday. Turkish jets have begun an aerial offensive, code-named operation "Olive Branch", against the Syrian Kurdish-held enclave of Afrin, in northwest Syria. RIGHT: Plumes of smoke rise on the air from inside Syria. A military statement says the operation launched Saturday aims to protect Turkey's borders. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTGRAPHS)

Rift between U.S., Turkey widens as Ankara presses Syrian offensive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Salvadorans residing in Iowa prepare for deportation

By MACKENZIE ELMER - Associated Press

The Latest: Court hears arguments in sanctuary-cities case

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Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said the Trump administration has an open-ended commitment to remain in parts of Syria to contain Islamic State. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump’s Syria policy raises tensions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2017 file photo, Loyola Marymount University student and dreamer Maria Carolina Gomez joins a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program, outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles. California's attorney general is concerned about open-ended immigration sweeps when he and other officials say the Trump administration should be concentrating on deporting dangerous felons. ecerra and former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, now the University of California president, spoke at a news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018 urging young immigrants to apply to remain in the country after a federal judge prevented Trump from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

California officials concerned about possible ICE sweeps

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Associated Press) **FILE**

ICE strikes deal with Florida sheriffs to hold illegal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2017, file photo, passengers leave the customs and immigration area with their luggage at the international arrivals terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Travel industry representatives sounded an alarm on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, over a long-term decline in international tourism to the U.S. and announced efforts to reverse the trend. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

US travel industry launches plan to reverse tourism decline

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

The attempted New York City subway bombing last month was one of several recent cases that involved suspects who gained admittance to the U.S. because of chain migration. (Associated Press/File)

73 percent of terrorists convicted in the U.S. were foreign born: DHS report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Pakistani traders demonstrated against President Trump this month after the U.S. suspended military aid to Islamabad. Nuzhat Sadiq, the chairwoman of the Senate Foreign Affairs committee in the upper house of parliament, said Islamabad could manage without the United States as it did in the 1990s but would prefer to move the troubled relationship forward. (Associated Press/File)

Senior U.S. diplomats hold face-to-face talks with Pakistani counterparts

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

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Immigration temporary protective status-Salvadoran debate

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times