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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

People collect water coming from a broken pipe that belongs to the city water service, during rolling blackouts which has kept people without running water in their homes in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 11, 2019. The blackout has intensified the toxic political climate, with opposition leader Juan Guaido blaming alleged government corruption and mismanagement and President Nicolas Maduro accusing his U.S.-backed adversary of sabotaging the national grid. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

U.S. pulling last diplomats from Venezuela amid power crisis

By Fabiola Sanchez and Scott Smith - Associated Press

This March 7, 2019, courtroom sketch depicts former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, center in a wheelchair, during his sentencing hearing in federal court before judge T.S. Ellis III in Alexandria, Va. Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, a significant break from sentencing guidelines that called for a 20-year prison term. (Dana Verkouteren via AP)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN - Associated Press

Trump administration is sued over Liberian immigrant program

By MARK PRATT - Associated Press

Judge extends authority to more families separated at border

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

In this File photo taken Wednesday, April 5, 2017, Abuk Garang holds her 7-month-old son William Deng, as she and others walk to a food distribution site in Malualkuel in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan. On March 8, 2019, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced an extension of TPS status for some South Sudanese who are in the United States. (AP Photo-File)

DHS extends protections for dozens of South Sudanese

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, migrants are escorted by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as they are detained after climbing over the border wall from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, to San Ysidro, Calif. The Trump administration's effort to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico explicitly targets Spanish-speakers and people from Latin America, according to internal guidelines of a highly touted strategy to address the burgeoning number of Central Americans arriving at U.S. borders. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Guidelines ask agents to target Spanish speakers at border

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

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. The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money. (AP Photo/Michelle R. Smith, File)

Judge calls citizenship question on Census a threat to democracy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013 file photo shows the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The National Security Agency is deleting more than 685 million call records the government obtained since 2015 from telecommunication companies in connection with investigations, raising questions about the viability of the program. The agency released a statement late Thursday, June 28, 2018, saying it started deleting the records in May after NSA analysts noted &quot;technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunication service providers.&quot; (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

National Security Agency’s phone record surveillance program has reportedly ended

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

Minnesota joins lawsuit over Trump abortion restrictions

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In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 photo released by Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Special Envoy of the Qatar Foreign Minister for Counterterrorism and Mediation in conflicts resolution, Dr. Mutlaq Bin Majid Al-Qahtanithe, is the mediator of talks between the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, and the Deputy Commander of the Taliban Movement for Political Affairs, Mulla Abdul Ghani Berader, right, in an undisclosed place in Doha, Qatar. U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with one of the founders of the Taliban for the first time on Monday ahead of the latest round of talks with the insurgents aimed at ending the 17-year war in Afghanistan. (Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs via AP)

Taliban balking at U.S. timetable, wants one-year pullout from Afghanistan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Venezuelans cross illegally into Colombia near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, which Venezuelan authorities continue to keep closed, in La Parada near Cucuta, Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Last weekend, opposition leader Juan Guaido coordinated a failed effort to bring aid from Colombia and Brazil into Venezuela, where security forces loyal to President Nicolas Maduro blocked the supplies at its border bridges, with Maduro describing Guaidos gambit as part of a U.S.-backed plot to overthrow him. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Donald Trump immigration stance threatened by Venezuela exodus

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Latest: 20 states aim to block Trump abortion rule

Associated Press

Iraqi President Barham Salih, right, meets with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Salam Palace in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Palestinian president slams US administration from Baghdad

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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2015 file photo, the Melia Cohiba hotel stands tall as workers repaint pavement markings along the Malecon in preparation for Pope Francis' visit in Havana, Cuba. The Trump administration is preparing to tighten the six-decade trade embargo on Cuba on Monday, March 4, 2019 by allowing some lawsuits against foreign companies using properties confiscated by the Cuban government after its 1959 revolution, U.S. officials say. Major investors in Cuba include Spanish hoteliers Iberostar and Melia, who run dozens of hotels across the island. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Trump symbolically tightens embargo on Cuba

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 15, 2019, file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Becerra and other Democratic lawmakers are seeking to overturn new obstacles the Trump administration set up for women seeking abortions, including barring taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from making abortion referrals. Becerra announced Monday, March 4, 2019, that the Democratic-led state will file a federal lawsuit seeking to block the Health and Human Services Department's new family plan rule. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California sues over US abortion rule; 20 states to follow

By PAUL ELIAS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sanctuary cities get federal funds despite Trump administration threats

By Wilson Ring - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2018 file photo, a banner to welcome immigrants is shown through a fisheye lens over the main entrance to the Denver City and County Building. The U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press at the end of February 2019 that 28 jurisdictions, including Denver, that were targeted in 2017 over what it considered &quot;sanctuary&quot; policies have been cleared for law enforcement grant funding. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

‘Sanctuary’ cities are getting their grants despite threats

By WILSON RING - Associated Press

Judge orders Trump administration to process immigrant cases

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Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Mike Pence at CPAC: ‘America is winning again’ on the global stage

By Alex Swoyer and Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times