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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, in Washington. Trump is headed to Kentucky. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump defends family detention as best option for migrant children

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Utah Planned Parenthood to remain open, declines US funding

Associated Press

United Nations Security Council meeting on the Mideast attended by United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, Tuesday Aug. 20, 2019 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Pompeo urges fresh thinking on Mideast, warns Iran

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US sued over Honduran man’s suicide after family separation

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2019 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, speaks with Constitutional Assembly President Diosdado Cabello at the Supreme Court during an annual ceremony that marks the start of the judicial year in Caracas, Venezuela. The U.S. has opened up secret communications with Cabello as members of Maduro’s inner circle seek guarantees they won’t face retribution if they cede to growing demands to remove him, a senior administration official told The Associated Press on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

AP Exclusive: US talks secretly to Venezuela socialist boss

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2019, file photo U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends a meeting of the 17th Latin American Infrastructure Leadership Forum, in Brasilia, Brazil. The U.S. government gave chipmakers and technology companies a 90-day extension to sell products to technology giant Huawei. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

US extends limited reprieve on tech sales to China’s Huawei

By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

In this June 4, 2019, file photo, a Planned Parenthood clinic is photographed in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) ** FILE **

Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program

By DAVID CRARY and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2019 file photo, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, right, speaks with Constitutional Assembly President Diosdado Cabello at the Supreme Court during an annual ceremony that marks the start of the judicial year in Caracas, Venezuela. The U.S. has opened up secret communications with Cabello as members of Maduro’s inner circle seek guarantees they won’t face retribution if they cede to growing demands to remove him, a senior administration official told The Associated Press on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

AP Exclusive: US talks secretly to Venezuela socialist boss

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump reacts at the end of his speech at a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist the penalties are achieving their aims. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump wields sanctions hammer; experts wonder to what end

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, photo, Dr. Jasmine Saavedra, a pediatrician at Esperanza Health Centers whose parents emigrated from Mexico in the 1980s, examines Alondra Marquez, a newborn baby in her clinic in Chicago. Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health outcomes and rising costs they say will come from sweeping changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance. Saavedra is convinced that if new Trump administration criteria were in effect for her parents three decades ago, she wouldn’t have become a pediatrician. (AP Photo/Amr Alfiky)

Doctors say new rule will mean sicker immigrants

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 file photo, a Guatemalan man poses for a photo with his young son at the new Casa del Refugiado in east El Paso, Texas. Behind him is a full-wall mural which reads Esperanza, or hope. A federal appeals court ruling will allow the Trump administration to begin rejecting asylum at some parts of the U.S.- Mexico border for migrants who arrived after transiting through a third country. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP, File)

Court: US can reject asylum along parts of Mexico border

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

CORRECTS TO LOCATION HARLEM NOT BROOKLYN - FILE - In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, police stand outside an office for the Cayuga Centers in the the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Three of the four incidents involving physical harm to separated immigrant children, outlined in legal filings, involved charges of Cayuga Centers, the largest foster care placement for migrant children. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Claims: Migrant children molested in U.S.-funded foster care

By JULIET LINDERMAN, GARANCE BURKE and AND MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

CORRECTS TO LOCATION HARLEM NOT BROOKLYN - FILE - In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, police stand outside an office for the Cayuga Centers in the the Harlem neighborhood of New York. Three of the four incidents involving physical harm to separated immigrant children, outlined in legal filings, involved charges of Cayuga Centers, the largest foster care placement for migrant children. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Claims: Migrant children molested in US-funded foster care

By GARANCE BURKE and JULIET LINDERMAN AND MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

In this Feb. 24, 2019, file photo, U.S. fighter aircraft F-16 perform aerobatic maneuvers on the last day of Aero India 2019 at Yelahanka air base in Bangalore, India. The Trump administration has informed Congress it plans to sell F-16 fighters worth $8 billion to Taiwan in a move that will inflame already high tensions with China. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File) **FILE**

US tells Congress of plans to sell F-16 fighters to Taiwan

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Watchdog cites possible political retribution at State Dept

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 1, 2016, file photo, a hawker sells programs, with the iconic Citgo sign in the background, as fans walk from Kenmore Square to a baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston. The Boston Landmarks Commission meets Tuesday to decide whether to launch a study to determine if the sign qualifies for preservation as a historic landmark. Thousands of Bostonians have signed a petition clamoring to save it. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Citgo in Venezuela fight between Nicolas Maduro, Juan Guaido

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A stern view of the Grace 1 super tanker in the British territory of Gibraltar, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, seized last month in a British Royal Navy operation off Gibraltar. The United States moved on Thursday to halt the release of the Iranian supertanker Grace 1, detained in Gibraltar for breaching EU sanctions on oil shipments to Syria, thwarting efforts by authorities in London and the British overseas territory to defuse tensions with Tehran. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Despite U.S. plea, Gibraltar releases seized Iranian tanker

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 3, 2007, file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands at sunset in New York. The Statue of Liberty is at the center of a national debate on immigration after a top Trump administration official offered the president’s own interpretation of the famous inscription that has welcomed immigrants to the United States for more than a century. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

AP PHOTOS: Lady Liberty as a symbol of immigration to the US

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In this Aug. 12, 2019, file photo, acting Director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli, speaks during a briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biographer: Statue poem embraces migrants from ‘all places’

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this June 2, 2009, file photo, the Statue of Liberty stands in New York harbor. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Emma Lazarus’ ‘huddled masses’ rejected as paupers in year poem added to Statue of Liberty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times