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In this Dec. 15, 2014, photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. Saudi state media said Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, that suspects in the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have attended their first court hearing. The state-run Saudi Press Agency said that prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for five of the 11 who were at the hearing. The brief statement did not name the suspects. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Top senators on Foreign Relations Committee seek more information on Jamal Khashoggi killing

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan talks to journalists during a press conference at the second day of a NATO defense ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. NATO defense ministers are discussing the future of the alliance's operation in Afghanistan and how best to use its military presence to support political talks aimed at ending the conflict. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Patrick Shanahan: U.S. will not unilaterally pull troops from Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - 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. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

The Latest: Children sent to Mexico under US asylum policy

Associated Press

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. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Trump administration sued over shift in asylum policy

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 2, 2018 file photo, a video image of Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is played during an event to remember Khashoggi, who died inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, in Washington. Turkey's state-run news agency is quoting a police report Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 suggesting that Cengiz may have escaped being a second victim of the killing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate Democrat wants documents related to Khashoggi killing

Associated Press

FILE - In this March 5, 2018, file photo, boys look through an older section of the border structure from Mexicali, Mexico, alongside a newly-constructed, taller section, left, in Calexico, Calif. A federal appeals court has rejected arguments by the state of California and environmental groups who tried to block reconstruction of sections of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, that the Trump administration did not exceed its authority by waiving environmental regulations to rebuild sections of wall near San Diego and Calexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

California loses border wall challenge at appeals court

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2019 file photo, Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at the California Legislative Black Caucus Martin Luther King Jr., Breakfast, in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom is withdrawing several hundred National Guard troops from the nation's southern border and changing their mission. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California governor rebukes Trump in border troop withdrawal

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE - Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his decision to withdraw most of the National Guard troops from the nation's southern border and changing their mission, during a Capitol news conference Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Gavin Newsom pulls most California National Guard troops from border

By Kathleen Ronayne - Associated Press

In this Feb. 5, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., watch. In his State of the Union, President Donald Trump said a &quot;powerful barrier&quot; had cut crime rates and turned El Paso, Texas, from one of the nation's most dangerous cities to one of its safest. But many in El Paso, site of Trump's rally Monday night, say the city was safe for decades and embodies a cross-border spirit that transcends walls rather than prove they work. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims he’s vindicated in Russia probe

By HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 5, 2019 photo, President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence, left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi look on. In Trump's estimation, the good times began to roll for the country on the night he was elected. So he doesn't hesitate to swipe job growth from the twilight of the Obama administration and claim it as his own. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump swipes progress from Obama era

By CALVIN WOODWARD and HOPE YEN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2012 file photo, gas prices are posted at the Citgo gas station in Philadelphia. U.S. refiners like Citgo are among the few customers paying cash for Venezuelan crude. Oil shipments to Venezuela’s other big customers, China and Russia, are usually taken as repayment for billions of dollars in debt. So the cash from Citgo has become a lifeline over the past two years as Venezuela’s oil output has plummeted amid chronic underinvestment in PDVSA and oil prices have dropped from historic highs. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US refiner Citgo emerges as key to Venezuela’s power battle

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

In this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas. Cheney says the Senate should not only confirm CIA nominee Gina Haspel, but should restart the spy agency's harsh detention and interrogation practices used on terror suspects after 9/11. Cheney told Fox Business on Thursday that if it were his call, he would have the program active and ready to be employed if needed. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Dick Cheney calls on Trump to resist temptation for a bad deal with N. Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pelosi is laying out her strategy on health care and first up is improvements to “Obamacare” and legislation to lower prescription drug costs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

DOJ opposes House’s attempt to intervene in Obamacare suit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Commander Jonathan White testifies during the House Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Official who oversaw migrant kids: Separation causes trauma

By COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

HHS outlines Donald Trump’s campaign to end HIV/AIDS

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this 2007 file photo, David Malpass, then the Chief Economist at Bear, Stearns &amp; Co. Inc., speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Malpass, an administration critic of the World Bank, to be the institution’s next leader. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

AP source: Trump to tap critic of agency to lead World Bank

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

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Nearly half of Trump’s Cabinet departed since last State of the Union address

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This Dec. 22, 2018, file photo shows a pump jack over an oil well along Interstate 25 near Dacono, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s speech exaggerates border peril

By CALVIN WOODWARD and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island in Singapore. While President Donald Trump waits in the wings, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019 for his fourth summit with China’s Xi Jinping, yet another nod to the leader Kim most needs to court as he tries to undermine support for international sanctions while giving up little, if any, ground on denuclearization. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

U.S. envoy goes to North Korea to prepare second Kim-Trump summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Newly elected Iraq President Barham Salih, center, leaves the parliament building in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Iraq's parliament elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country's new president on Tuesday, a step toward forming a new government nearly five months after national elections. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim) ** FILE **

Iraq says U.S. military’s plan to extend presence to deter Iran needs to be renegotiated

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times