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FILE- This Aug. 1, 2018 file photo, shows a 3D printed gun called the Liberator, in Austin, Texas. Attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit challenging a federal regulation that could allow blueprints for making guns on 3D printers to be posted on the internet. New York Attorney General Tish James is helping to lead the coalition, which filed the lawsuit Thursday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Coalition of states sue over rules governing 3D-printed guns

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and CHRIS GRYGIEL - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pose for a photo before participating in a roundtable discussion with Venezuelan exiles, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Mike Pompeo: Trump ‘America first’ policy creating ‘hemisphere of freedom’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This undated photo provided by the Center for Biological Diversity shows a Pascagoula map turtle. Two environmental groups have sued the Trump administration, saying it has failed to protect map turtles found in Mississippi and Louisiana under the Endangered Species Act. (Grover Brown/Center for Biological Diversity via AP)

Lawsuit filed to protect turtles in Mississippi, Louisiana

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

Opposition leader Juan Guaido holds a session at a theater in the El Hatillo neighborhood after opposition lawmakers' vehicles were attacked by government supporters while driving to the National Assembly in downtown Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. It's the second time this month that lawmakers have been barred from from the building that houses the only branch of government out of control of President Nicolas Maduro's government. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuela’s Guaido to meet Pompeo in Colombia

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

US allows Chevron to keep drilling in Venezuela for 3 months

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In this June 17, 2019 file photo, The Supreme Court is seen in Washington. The Supreme Court will consider Trump administration rules expanding religious, moral exemptions from contraceptive coverage. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court to review Trump’s religious exemptions for contraceptive coverage

By Alex Swoyer and Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, May 4, 2017, file photo, a third-grader punches in her student identification to pay for a meal at Gonzales Community School in Santa Fe, N.M. The Trump administration is proposing a rollback of nutrition guidelines for federal school meals programs that had been promoted by Michelle Obama as part of her campaign to combat child obesity. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, file)

Rollback proposed for Michelle Obama school lunch guidelines

By Carole Feldman - Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., signs the resolution to transmit the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. The two articles of impeachment against Trump are for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Nancy Pelosi doubles down on demand for expanded Senate trial in light of GAO report

By Gabriella Muñoz and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Stewart Detention Center is seen through the front gate, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. The rural town is about 140 miles southwest of Atlanta and next to the Georgia-Alabama state line. The town’s 1,172 residents are outnumbered by the roughly 1,650 male detainees that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said were being held in the detention center in late November. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

AP visits immigration courts across US, finds nonstop chaos

By KATE BRUMBACK and DEEPTI HAJELA and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

Soleimani Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Shifting justification for the killing of Soleimani persists

By Andrew P. Napolitano

A man polishes the sign for The New York Times at the company's headquarters, July 18, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) ** FILE **

EPA accuses New York Times of ‘extreme bias’ in ‘hit piece’ on Trump officials

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A worker waits to transport containers at the container port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. China's exports rose 0.5% in 2019 despite a tariff war with Washington after growth rebounded in December on stronger demand from other markets. (Chinatopix Via AP)

US-China pact signing to ease tension but leaves much undone

By PAUL WISEMAN and JOE MCDONALD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the southern border wall in Otay Mesa, Calif. The Trump administration is weighing whether to shift billions more in military funding for the border wall after moving more than $6 billion, prompting a fresh round of criticism from lawmakers (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump admin weighs shifting billions more for border wall

By COLLEEN LONG and ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

Alberto Perez, a 77-year-old retired man, leaves his home in the Sevillano neighborhood with an empty cooking gas tank as he departs for a shop where he will replace it with a full one in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020. The Cuban government is warning citizens to prepare for shortages of cooking gas due to Trump administration sanctions on the island. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco)

Cuba warns citizens to prepare for cooking-gas shortages

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heads to a briefing with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other national security officials on the details of the threat that prompted the U.S. to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell on US-Iran strategy: ‘Let’s not screw it up’

By MATTHEW DALY and LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 19, 2019, file photo, children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. The U.S. government didn't have the technology needed to properly document and track the thousands of immigrant families separated at the southern border in 2018. That's according to a new report by an internal government watchdog. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)

Judge backs Trump administration on family separations at border

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

In this June 29, 2019, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

Donald Trump to remove China currency-manipulator tag ahead of trade deal

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photograph taken Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, Iranian police officers take position while protesters gather in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, to remember victims of a Ukrainian airplane shot down by an Iranian missile. On Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, online videos purported to show that Iranian security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner. (AP Photo)

Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump back Iran protesters against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 16, 2019, file photo, people wait to apply for asylum in the United States along the border in Tijuana, Mexico. A federal judge rules that the Trump administration is operating within its authority when separating families stopped at the Mexican border, rejecting arguments that it was quietly returning to widespread practices that drew international condemnation. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Judge refuses to second-guess family separations at border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 23, 2019 file photo, immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, in Washington. The Department of Homeland Security is agreeing to share citizenship information with the U.S. Census Bureau. The agreement was made in response to President Donald Trump's order to collect data on who is a citizen through administrative records following the Supreme Court's rejection of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census form. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Not on form, but brawl over citizenship question continues

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press