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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust, in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 21, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool Image via AP)

Mike Pompeo to visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall with Benjamin Netanyahu

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Navy SEALs in action. (U.S. Navy photo)

Al-Shabab spurs U.S. military action in terror fight

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, March 19, 2019, file photo, a van carrying asylum seekers from the border is escorted by security personnel as it arrives to immigration court, in San Diego. Scheduling glitches led an immigration judge to deny the Trump administration's request to order four Central American migrants deported because they failed to show for initial hearings Wednesday, March 20, 2019, dealing a setback to a highly touted initiative to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Migrants encounter snag with new U.S. asylum policy

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Patrick Shanahan yet to discuss Space Force funding with top Democrat

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A migrant sits with his children as they wait to hear if their number is called to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. The Trump administration on Friday will start forcing some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts, an official said, launching what could become one of the more significant changes to the immigration system in years. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Trump asylum policy dealt setback in immigration court

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

White House foresees long economic boom where others don’t

By JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

Two men, both of Honduras, walk with attorneys as they cross into the United States to begin their asylum cases, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Tijuana, Mexico. A group of about five men were on their way to report for their first hearing under a new policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their case winds through U.S. immigration court. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Asylum seekers waiting in Mexico seek to stay in US

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces remove concrete blast walls in Abu Nawas street in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Lawmakers appeal to Trump not to cut Iraqi aid

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this photo taken March 7, 2019, flags, including a POW/MIA flag, flap in a breeze in front of the Lane County Circuit Court building where the Veterans Treatment Court is held in Eugene, Ore. Military veterans who are struggling with addiction and have tangled with the law are being given a second chance in an Oregon courtroom. But the Veterans Treatment Court and 40 other specialty courts in Oregon are at risk of losing their federal funding unless the state enforces federal immigration policies. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Veterans court may be collateral damage in immigration fight

By ANDREW SELSKY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 9, 2008 file photo, male sage grouses fight for the attention of female southwest of Rawlins, Wyo. The Trump administration is finalizing plans to ease restrictions on oil and gas drilling and other industries that were meant to protect an imperiled bird species that ranges across the American West, federal officials said Thursday, March 14, 2019. (Jerret Raffety/Rawlins Daily Times via AP, File)

The Latest: House chairman blasts Trump sage grouse plans

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Armed and dangerous: Pro-Iran Popular Mobilization Forces militants say it’s time for U.S. troops to leave Iraq and are said to be spreading conspiracy theories that the Trump administration is helping the Islamic State. (Associated Press)

Iran backed Popular Mobilization Forces pressures U.S. to leave Iraq

By Adam Lucente — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 20, 2013, file photo, male Greater Sage Grouse perform their mating ritual on a lake near Walden, Colo. The Trump administration is finalizing plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling and other industry activities that are meant to protect an imperiled bird species that ranges across the American West. U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director Brian Steed told The Associated Press the changes still protect greater sage grouse while addressing concerns that policies under former President Barack Obama were too restrictive. A formal announcement is expected Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

US eases land restrictions meant to protect bird in West

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is sworn-in during the House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democratic lawmakers grill Ross on citizenship question

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies during the House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Wilbur Ross secretly pushed citizenship census question, Democrats charge

By Kevin Freking - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during the release of the 2018 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices at the Department of State in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US report faults Saudi Arabia in killing of journalist

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

The Latest: Judges skeptical of challenge to California law

Associated Press

National Assembly President Juan Guaido, who declared himself interim president of Venezuela, leaps on to a vehicle to speak to supporters as he visits different points of anti-government protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Guaido has declared himself interim president and demands new elections, arguing that President Nicolas Maduro's re-election last year was invalid. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

U.S. support Juan Guaido in Venezuela strong as diplomats leave

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, right, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visit the border between Israel and Syria at the Israeli-held Golan Heights, Monday, March 11, 2019. Graham says he will push for American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a territory it captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Lindsey Graham: Israel Golan Heights sovereignty not in dispute

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, visit the border between Israel and Syria at the Israeli-held Golan Heights, Monday, March 11, 2019. Graham says he will push for American recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a territory it captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

US senator vows to seek recognition of Israeli rule in Golan

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press