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Black smoke rises from the roof of the Consulate-General of Russia Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, in San Francisco. The U.S. on Thursday ordered Russia to shut its San Francisco consulate and close offices in Washington and New York within 48 hours in response to Russia's decision last month to cut U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia. Fireman were called to the consul, but were turned away after being told there was no problem. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The Latest: San Francisco Russia consulate starts move-out

Associated Press

Muslim pilgrims hold umbrellas as they attend noon prayers outside the Namirah mosque on Arafat Mountain, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, outside the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Trump’s travel restrictions have Muslims on hajj concerned

By JEFF KAROUB and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Lawsuit over Trump’s 1st attempt to ban travel is settled

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Trump admin. slashes funding for Obamacare promotion

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto Missouri. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump moves to restore work requirement for welfare

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Deputy assistant to President Trump, Sebastian Gorka, talks with people in the Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington during a ceremony commemorating Israeli Independence Day. White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka tells The Associated Press he has resigned from his position, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sebastian Gorka, former Trump adviser, placed on White House ‘Do Not Admit’ list: Report

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

A woman holds up a signs in support of the Obama administration program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, during an immigration reform rally at the White House in Washington, Aug. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Top Republicans demand data on Dreamers taking shortcut to citizenship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE- In this undated file photo, the Upper Gulch section of the Escalante Canyons within Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument features sheer sandstone walls, broken occasionally by tributary canyons. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he's recommending that none of 27 national monuments carved from wilderness and ocean and under review by the Trump administration be eliminated, including the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)

The Latest: Lawmaker welcomes news on monument areas

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2014 file photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site in Austin, Texas. A federal judge Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017, again threw out Texas’ voter ID requirements that she previously compared to a “poll tax” on minorities, dealing another court setback to state Republican leaders over voting rights. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas’ string of losses in voting rights cases continues

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, center, attends a military parade to celebrate independence day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. The Ukraine officially declared itself independent from the Soviet Union on April 24, 1991. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

James Mattis in Kiev says Moscow wants to redraw borders by force

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters at the Capitol as the Republican-controlled Senate unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace &quot;Obamacare&quot; because of opposition and wavering within the GOP ranks, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

John McCain calls Trump ‘weak’ on cybersecurity after White House blows 90-day deadline

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

The Upper Gulch section of the Escalante Canyons within Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument features sheer sandstone walls, broken occasionally by tributary canyons. (Associated Press)

Grand Staircase-Escalante monument paring down by Donald Trump to test Antiquities Act

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 7, 2017 file photo, a coal barge is positioned as a backdrop behind President Donald Trump as he speaks during a rally at the Rivertowne Marina in Cincinnati. President Donald Trump personally promised to activate emergency legal authorities to keep dirty or economically uncompetitive coal plants from shutting down, a top American coal company said. The Trump administration now says it has no plans to do so. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

A coal country dispute over an alleged Trump promise unmet

By JEFF HORWITZ and MICHAEL BIESECKER and MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

In this May 20, 2005, file photo, plumes of steam drift from a cooling tower of the Perry Nuclear Power Plant along Lake Erie in North Perry, Ohio. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

Trump administration’s nuclear energy plans hanging on by a thread

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary James Mattis listens during a news conference with Japanese officials, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

James Mattis says a decision is closer on strategy for Afghanistan

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Defense Secretary James Mattis listens during a news conference with Japanese officials, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Before Camp David talks, Mattis says Afghan strategy is near

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

talks for now: Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is in South Korea as part of a diplomatic visit to the peninsula and China in an attempt to ease tensions with North Korea. (Associated Press)

National security chiefs tamp down ‘fire and fury’ rhetoric

By Carlo Muñoz and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the Asia-Pacific region since the crisis escalated last week. He told reporters in Seoul on Monday, "It would be a horrible thing were a war to be conducted here on the peninsula, and that's why we're so focused on coming up with a peaceful way ahead."

Donald Trump’s aides tamp down North Korea rhetoric

By Carlo Muñoz and Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

Democratic attorneys escalate legal fight against Trump

By STEVE PEOPLES - Associated Press