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Trump signals he’s prepared to give farmers more federal aid

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2018 file photo, water contaminated with arsenic, lead and zinc flows from a pipe out of the Lee Mountain mine and into a holding pond near Rimini, Mont. The community is part of the Upper Tenmile Creek Superfund site, where dozens of abandoned mines have left water supplies polluted and residents must use bottled water. The Trump administration has built up the largest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund projects awaiting clean-up in at least 15 years, nearly tripling the number of sites where clean-ups are ready to go but awaiting money, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Toxic Superfund cleanups decline to more than 30-year low

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Media wear face masks to protect themselves from a new virus wait China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi's arrival at Wattay Airport for the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Wall Street Journal reporters expelled by China for ‘racist’ report

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this image made from a video, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen gives an annual New Year's statement to the media in Taipei, Taiwan Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. (APTN via AP)

Window for historic U.S.-Taiwan trade agreement closing fast

By Riley Walters

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2018 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Russian Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin during his flight to visit Chernigovets coal mine, in Beryozovsky, Kemerovo region, Russia. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, the Treasury Department slapped sanctions on Rosneft’s trading arm and its CEO, accusing the Geneva-based firm of providing a critical lifeline to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ending Putin’s support of Venezuela no easy feat for US

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and DARIA LITVINOVA - Associated Press

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks on the second day of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Iran’s FM says his meeting with US senator spooked Trump

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks over to talk to the media before he boards Air Force One for a trip to Los Angeles to attend a campaign fundraiser, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump delivers on pledge for wealthy California farmers

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and ADAM BEAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019, file photo, attendees walk past a display for 5G services from Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing. The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on European allies to ban Chinese tech firm Huawei from supplying next-generation mobile networks, with more officials visiting this week to press the case. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Europe resists mounting US pressure on Huawei 5G technology

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

Illustration on Medicare by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

New Medicaid state waivers, a pathway for health care reform

By Nina Owcharenko Schaefer

Left to right; Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump, Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk to the group photo at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

U.S., Russia — and now China — in nuclear arms race as Obama peace-pact wanes

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

New Jersey, Trump administration square off over immigration

By MIKE CATALINI - Associated Press

In this July 23, 2002, file photo, a common tern flies over roosting laughing gulls on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel island in Suffolk, Va. Virginia officials announced plans Friday, Feb. 1, 2020. to create new habitat for about 25,000 seabirds after their nesting grounds were paved for the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel expansion project, a case that highlighted weakened protections for birds under President Donald Trump. (John H. Sheally II/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File)

After federal rollback, Virginia offers new bird protections

By SARAH RANKIN and MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

In this file photo, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, center, talks at a news conference at the State Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, September 12, 2018, about the state's work requirement for its expanded Medicaid program. On Feb. 14, 2020, a federal appeals court unanimously ruled such a requirement was in violation of federal law. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

Federal court rules against Trump administration’s work requirements for Medicaid

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2020, file photo, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks to reporters in Little Rock, Ark. A federal appeals court panel in Washington has upheld a lower court's decision that blocked the Trump administration's work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, decision from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., found Arkansas' work requirements for Medicaid recipients to be &quot;arbitrary and capricious.&quot; Hutchinson said he's hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will review the case. (AP Photo/Andrew Demillo, File)

Appeals court deals blow to Trump’s Medicaid work rules

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JILL BLEED - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, center, walks Gen. Scott Miller, right, chief of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, at the U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. Esper arrived Sunday in Afghanistan, where stalled peace talks with the Taliban and persistent violent attacks by the insurgent group and Islamic State militants have complicated the Trump administration’s pledge to withdraw more than 5,000 American troops. He told reporters traveling with him that he believes the U.S. can reduce its force in Afghanistan without hurting the counterterrorism fight against al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Lolita C. Balbor) **FILE**

U.S., Taliban reach deal for 7-day reduction in violence

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 31, 2019, file photo, a man uses his smartphone as he stands near a billboard for Chinese technology firm Huawei at the PT Expo in Beijing. The Justice Department has added new criminal charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei and two of its United States subsidiaries, accusing the company in a plot to steal trade secrets. The indictment from federal prosecutors was announced Thursday by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

US brings new charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

ARABIAN SEA(Nov. 25, 2012) Aircraft launch and recovery officers launch an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Wildcats of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 131 from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. (U.S. Navy photo)

Trump revamps nuclear arsenal to respond to Russia ‘tactical’ threat

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Trump budget proposal slashes funding for Denali Commission

Associated Press

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order aimed at preventing an electronic disruption of systems that rely on accurate precision, navigation and timing. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump aims to protect GPS, other infrastructure

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - This Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Operation Lady Justice aims to help solve epidemic of murdered, missing indigenous women

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times