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This Nov. 30, 2006 file photo shows oil drills in Maracaibo Lake in Venezuela's oil rich Zulia state. The Trump administration needs to decide by July 27, 2019 whether or not to allow Chevron to keep operating in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch, File) **FILE**

Will Trump let Chevron stay in Venezuela?

By LUIS ALONSO LUGO and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

A Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis is shown in this June 2019 file photo. The organization's political action committee says it will spend $45 million in the 2020 campaign cycle to defeat President Trump, flip the Senate, and influence key state legislative races. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) ** FILE **

Trump abortion rule seen as blow against Planned Parenthood

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 4, 2019 file photo, a group of asylum seekers cross the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Thursday, July 4, 2019. (Mark Lambie/The El Paso Times via AP)

Trump’s new asylum rules go into effect, and opponents sue

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and CEDAR ATTANASIO - Associated Press

A Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis is shown in this June 2019 file photo. The organization's political action committee says it will spend $45 million in the 2020 campaign cycle to defeat President Trump, flip the Senate, and influence key state legislative races. (Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) ** FILE **

Trump abortion restrictions effective immediately

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on the environment in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrong about Dems, census, citizenship

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

In this April 1, 2019, file photo, Attorney General William Barr attends the 2019 Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

The Latest: Mexico ‘does not agree’ with new US asylum rule

Associated Press

Senator: Biggest US land agency moving to Colorado

By DAN ELLIOTT - Associated Press

Thomas Muccioli and Allie Horton hold hands as they chant at the end of a march in opposition to the Trump administration's plans to continue with raids to catch immigrants in the country illegally, Sunday, July 14, 2019, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

Kellyanne Conway defends immigration raids, points to ‘deporter in chief’ Obama

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 5, 2019, file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle sits near the wall as President Donald Trump visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in El Centro, Calif. The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to go ahead and use Pentagon money to build sections of a border wall with Mexico after two lower courts blocked it from doing so while a lawsuit over the money proceeds. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money

Associated Press

Trump escapes blame for ethanol policy hurting corn farmers

By DAVID PITT - Associated Press

In this June 5, 2019, photo, a bee pollinates a milkweed flower at the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md. The Environmental Protection Agency will allow farmers to resume broad use of a pesticide over objections from beekeepers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EPA restores broad use of pesticide opposed by beekeepers

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan smiles as he addresses a conference on judicial reform strategy, in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 30, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Russian S-400 defense systems arrive in Turkey

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Churches council plans for immigration enforcement operation

Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., on his way returning back to the White House, Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump administration plans immigration enforcement operation

By SOPHIA TAREEN and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

FILE - This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. Legal wrangling has surrounded the U.S. census count for decades, culminating in this year’s fight over adding a citizenship question. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)

The Latest: Civil rights groups celebrate census decision

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Attorney General William Barr speaks to reporters after touring the Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution Monday, July 8, 2019, in Edgefield, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Second judge blocks request to change lawyers in census case

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to reporters before leaving for Bosnia, in Istanbul, Monday, July 8, 2019. Erdogan says Russia's S-400 air defense missiles are currently being prepared to be flown to Turkey. Erdogan would not, however, say when the Russian missile defense system would reach Turkey or where they will be deployed. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

State Department affirms Turkey faces sanctions over planned Russia weapons buy

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this June 25, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. More than 20 state governors are backing California leaders in a showdown with the Trump administration over mileage standards. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

23 U.S. governors join Calif. in opposing Trump mileage freeze

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens to reporter's questions as he waits for the arrival Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the White House, Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judge Jesse Furman rejects Trump legal team changes 2020 census citizenship case

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the Christians United for Israel's annual summit, Monday, July 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

US won’t waver from Iran pressure as nuclear deal unravels

By TAMI ABDOLLAH - Associated Press