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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 1, 2019, file photo, members of U.S. and China delegation led by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, stand for a group photo session after their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Chinese envoys are preparing to travel to the United States for trade talks, a government spokesman said Monday, May 6, 2019, suggesting negotiations on ending a bruising tariff war will proceed despite President Donald Trump's threat to raise import taxes. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool, File)

Chinese team heads to Washington to salvage trade talks

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

In this April 11, 2019, file photo trader John Panin works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Worsening US-China trade tensions rattle financial markets

By ALEX VEIGA - Associated Press

People walk by a globe structure showing the United States of America on display outside a bank in Beijing, Monday, May 6, 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump raised pressure on China on Sunday, threatening to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods in a tweet that sent financial markets swooning. Trump's comments, delivered on Twitter, came as a Chinese delegation was scheduled to resume talks in Washington on Wednesday aimed at resolving a trade war that has shaken investors and cast gloom over the world economy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

US plans to hike tariffs Friday, says China broke promises

By PAUL WISEMAN and JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, steps off a plane upon arrival in Rovaniemi, Finland, Monday, May 6, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

US warns China, Russia against aggression in Arctic region

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2012, file photo, Navy shore crew haul in lines as the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrives at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va. The U.S. is dispatching the USS Abraham Lincoln and other military resources to the Middle East following “clear indications” that Iran and its proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, according to a defense official on May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

US sending aircraft carrier to Mideast, citing Iran threats

By LOLITA BALDOR and ZEKE MILLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2017 file photo, buildings with their roofs damaged by the winds of Hurricane Maria are shown still exposed to weather conditions, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico's government said Tuesday, April, 23, 2019, that it plans to demolish 16,000 structures that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria nearly two years ago. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti, File)

House Dems renew probe on hurricane response in Puerto Rico

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, waves as he stands alongside Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom, Monday, April 29, 2019, at the U.S. State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

China, climate, Russia to dominate Pompeo Europe tour

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

Florida senators say Venezuela is national security issue

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2019 file photo, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, speaks flanked by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, right, and Gen. Ivan Hernandez, second from right, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence in Caracas, Venezuela. The Associated Press has learned that at least twice since 2016, the U.S. government missed chances to cultivate relations with regime insiders, including Padrino and Hernández, who National Security Adviser John Bolton said backed out of a plan to topple Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

AP Exclusive: US missed chance to woo Venezuela generals

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

US renews Iran sanctions waivers for civilian nuclear work

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

This Sept. 11, 2018, file photo shows a marijuana plant in the coastal mountain range of San Luis Obispo, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Trump admin. tested over ‘fatally flawed’ immigration policy as marijuana workers risk deportation

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 file aerial photo, a boat motors between flooded homes after heavy rains inundating the region, in Hammond, La. The state's U.S. senators, Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy, said Thursday, May 2, 2019 the Trump administration has agreed to rewrite regulations to help thousands of Louisiana homeowners with damage from the 2016 floods access federal aid,. (AP Photo/Max Becherer, File)

Louisiana senators: Trump administration agrees on flood aid

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

In this Sept. 18, 2010, file photo, rhe Development Driller III, which drilled the relief well and pumped the cement to seal the Macondo well, the source of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, is seen in the Gulf Of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The Trump administration on Thursday, May 2, 2019, moved to ease safety regulations adopted after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon blowout, the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history that killed nearly a dozen people. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Trump easing offshore drilling safety rules from Deepwater

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY and ELLEN KNICKMEYER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, photo provided on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, right, meets Kim Yong-chol, who traveled to Washington to discuss denuclearization talks, in Pyongyang. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Kim Jong-un replaces Kim Yong-chol with Jang Kum-chol

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at Morehouse College Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) ** FILE **

Trump, anti-Obamacare states ask court to uphold ruling striking down Affordable Care Act

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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan prepares for a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on his agency's future funding, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. McAleenan, who is also the commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, was directed Monday by President Donald Trump to take additional measures to overhaul the asylum system, which he insists &quot;is in crisis&quot; and plagued by &quot;rampant abuse.&quot; (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

White House wants $4.5 billion in emergency border funding

By COLLEEN LONG and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

The Latest: Trump, anti-‘Obamacare’ states file arguments

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Opponents to Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro face off with Bolivarian National Guards in armored vehicles who are loyal to the president, during an attempted military uprising in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Opposition leader Juan Guaido took to the streets with a small contingent of heavily armed troops in a call for the military to rise up and oust Maduro. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Juan Guaido Venezuela ‘final phase’ to push Nicolas Maduro from power

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, Friday, April 26, 2019, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump threatens Cuba as US supports Venezuela uprising

By MATTHEW LEE and BEN FOX - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 11, 2017 file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is seen in the State Department Library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. How to spot a troubled school and how to help it? What does it mean to be a good student? What should report cards look like? These are some of the questions states are grappling with as they are working to submit blueprints of how they will implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, a landmark education law meant to help struggling schools. The law allows states greater flexibility in dealing with low performing schools, but the flexibility also comes with the risk or doing too little, too much or too differently. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Jessica Duenas and Kelly Holstine, state teachers of the year, boycott White House ceremony

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