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United Mine Workers of America environmental attorney Eugene Trisko speaks to a gathering of of miners in front of a statue of a coal miner, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, at the state Capitol in Charleston, West Virginia. The union members held a news conference during a break in a public hearing on the Trump administration's planned repeal of an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. (AP Photo/John Raby)

EPA hears worries about climate in heart of coal country

By JOHN RABY and MICHAEL BIESECKER - Associated Press

FILE- This Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, file photo shows the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week, U.S. officials said the Palestine Liberation Organization mission in Washington had to close because the Palestinians had violated a provision in U.S. law. But the State Department said Friday, Nov. 24, that the office can stay open, with restrictions. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US changes course, allows PLO office to remain open

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE- This Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, file photo shows the Washington office of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week, U.S. officials said the Palestine Liberation Organization mission in Washington had to close because the Palestinians had violated a provision in U.S. law. But the State Department said Friday, Nov. 24, that the office can stay open, with restrictions. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US backtracks on decision to close Palestinian office in DC

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Legal Air Justice Center director Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, left, and plaintiff Nurimaro Park, 26-year-old resident of Fairfax, Va., right, pause during a news conference at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, to announce that Park and plaintiff Jonathan Alvarenga Recinos, 19-year-old resident of Alexandria, Va., have filed a lawsuit seeking to have their Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA, reinstated and extended for two years. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

2 Virginia men sue over Trump’s immigration changes

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Protesters of a travel ban gather in Union Square, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in New York. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Donald Trump’s travel ban was chaos, disastrously implemented, inspector general finds

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Kurdish leaders remain committed to a political settlement but say their famed peshmerga militia forces are ready to take up arms to defend their homeland. (Associated Press/File)

Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdish delegate, urges U.S. to push Iraq deal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents are reporting a new surge in illegal border crossings in Texas. (Associated Press/File)

Catch-and-release of illegal immigrant restarted in Texas, border patrol agents say

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Florida Blue agent Ismaris Crespo, right, explains the different Affordable Care Act enrollment options to Catherine Reviati, left, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, in Hialeah, Fla. Health care advocacy groups are making an against-all-odds effort to sign people up despite confusion and hostility fostered by Republicans opposed to former President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Trump admin. reports 600K Obamacare signups in first four days

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Appeals court to hold full hearing on Trump travel ban

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In this Oct. 12, 2017, file photo, a building is demolished on the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan) ** FILE **

U.S. tightens restrictions on travel, trade with Cuba

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 10, 2017, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with Yahoo News in Damascus, Syria. (SANA via AP, File)

Syria to sign Paris climate deal; U.S. now only holdout

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 15, 2017 file photo, protesters hold signs during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. A Somali refugee living in Washington state is asking a federal judge to let his wife and young children join him in the U.S., saying the Trump administration's indefinite ban on allowing the families of refugees to enter the country violates immigration law. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Seattle lawsuit challenges bar on entry of refugee’s family

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

An aide, left, assists Natalie Jaresko, executive director, and Noel Zamot, revitalization coordinator, both of the financial oversight and management board for Puerto Rico, before the start of a House Committee on Natural Resources hearing to examine challenges in Puerto Rico's recovery and the role of the financial oversight and management board, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Official says Puerto Rico needs ‘unprecedented’ federal help

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

FILE - This Aug. 24, 2017 file photo, shows a KFC menu with calorie counts in New York. The Trump administration is moving ahead with a law from the Obama years that will require calorie counts to appear on foods served at restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and pizza delivery chains nationwide. The FDA posted recommendations Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 to help businesses comply with the law. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Trump administration moves ahead with Obama menu-label law

By MATTHEW PERRONE - Associated Press

In this July 13, 2014, file photo, Iraqi former Parliament speaker and the chairman of the Sunni Arab coalition Osama al-Nujaifi, speaks to the media during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni is in Washington pleading for military aid for his community's militias, hoping the U.S. will deliver on pledges to counter Iran's growing influence. Osama al-Nujaifi is one of three Iraqi vice presidents and his brother heads a prominent defense faction. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Osama al-Nujaifi, Iraqi VP, asks for arms, training for Sunnis in his country

By Stephen Braun - Associated Press

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks at the annual CBI conference in London, Monday Nov. 6, 2017. Newly leaked documents show that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the Trump administration's point man on trade and manufacturing policy, has a stake in a company that does business with a gas producer partly owned by the son-in-law of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (John Stillwell/PA via AP)

Democrats say ‘Paradise Papers’ leak should derail GOP’s tax overhaul

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigrant rights groups present a petition asking lawmakers to help release a Nicaraguan asylum seeker, who was detained after a routine check-in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in South Florida, at the office of Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in Miami. At right is Ros-Lehtinen's Chief of Staff Maytee Sanz. Espilvio Sanchez-Benavidez is slated for deportation even as he continues to appeal his case in federal court. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Special immigration status for 5,000 Nicaraguans cancelled, 86,000 Hondurans delayed

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 2, 2017 photo, Serena Reeves, health insurance marketplace navigator at the Community Action Partnership of Lancaster and Saunders County, left, helps Rifaah Hussein sign up for healthcare in Lincoln, Neb. The annual campaign to sign Nebraska residents up for health insurance through the federal marketplace is facing more hurdles than usual this year, with slashed advertising budget and shortened open enrollment period by half.(AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Trump funding cut limits Nebraska health insurance sign ups

By GRANT SCHULTE - Associated Press

A truck carrying wood goes through the customs checkpoint, Tuesday, April 25, 2017 in Champlain, N.Y. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says that Canada and the U.S. could suffer from what he called a &quot;thickening&quot; border, a day after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on softwood lumber. Trudeau was responding to the announcement of new U.S. duties of up to 24 percent on softwood lumber entering from Canada. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trump administration slaps duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

The Healthcare.gov website is seen on a computer screen Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in Washington. If President Donald Trump succeeds in shutting down a major “Obamacare” subsidy, it would have the unintended consequence of making basic health insurance available to more people for free, and making upper-tier plans more affordable. The unexpected assessment comes from consultants, policy experts, and state officials trying to discern the potential fallout from a Washington health care debate that’s becoming harder to follow.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Free ‘Obamacare’ for older, poorer in nearly all counties

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press