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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra discusses various issues during an interview with The Associated Press, in Sacramento, Calif. Becerra said he took the attorney general’s job to protect what he expected to be an onslaught against many of the issues he championed as a 12-term Democratic congressman. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Immigration a recurring theme in California’s Trump lawsuits

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Colorado AG plans legal action against Trump administration

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks to reporters after giving a classified briefing to members of the House of Representatives, telling them that the Trump administration will keep strict U.S. sanctions on the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats question Treasury chief on Russian oligarch

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second left, meets Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, second right, and their delegations, at the ministry of foreign affairs in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Pompeo is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders as he continues a nine-nation Middle East tour aimed at reassuring America's Arab partners that the Trump administration is not walking away from the region. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Mike Pompeo slams Obama-era Mideast ‘retreat,’ calls on allies to help isolate Iran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, shakes hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry after holding a press conference, at the ministry of foreign affairs in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Pompeo is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian leaders as he continues a nine-nation Middle East tour aimed at reassuring America's Arab partners that the Trump administration is not walking away from the region. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)

Mike Pompeo in Egypt amid concerns over U.S. Mideast policy

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has repeatedly sued the Trump administration mostly over immigration and environmental decisions, said the ruling shows that states' rights "continue to thrive." (Associated Press)

Top prosecutor’s past infuses California’s battle with Trump

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right rear, leave a news conference where they were joined by furloughed federal workers to discuss the impact on families of the partial government shutdown and President Donald Trump's demands for funding a U.S.-Mexico border wall, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House votes to intervene in Obamacare lawsuit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 26, 2018 file photo, Haitian activists and immigrants protest on City Hall Plaza in Boston. A trial in New York over the Trump administration's move to cut off permission for thousands of Haitians to live in the U.S. is spotlighting emails between officials downplaying health and safety crises in the Caribbean nation as they tried to justify the change. The case centers on the Temporary Protected Status program, which has allowed about 50,000 people from Haiti to live and work in the U.S. temporarily since a devastating earthquake in 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Trump’s move to send Haitians home goes on trial in New York

By ADAM GELLER - Associated Press

A Marine stands by the door to the West Wing of the White House, Tuesday Jan. 8, 2019, in Washington, as television lights are at the ready a few hours before President Donald Trump is expected to make an address to the nation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

USDA: Food stamps will be funded through February

By JULIET LINDERMAN - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talks to reporters on his plane on his way to the Middle East, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Mike Pompeo starts Middle East visit to ramp up pressure on Iran

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APNewsBreak: S. Carolina joins offshore drilling lawsuit

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

National Security Adviser John Bolton, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, attend a news conference between President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, June 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Donald Trump scramble to get Syria troop withdrawal story straight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Aug. 19, 2015, file photo the Internal Revenue Service Building in Washington. The prolonged government shutdown couldn’t come at a worse time for the Internal Revenue Service. The tax filing season is opening soon. And for taxpayers, payments for those who owe Uncle Sam likely will still be due April 15, but people due refunds could see a delay if the partial shutdown persists. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Administration: Government shutdown won’t delay tax refunds

By MARCY GORDON and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Foreign Ministers of the Lima Group gather for a meeting concerning Venezuela, in Lima, Peru, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. The group gathers in Lima to define a strategy for resolving Venezuela's growing crisis ahead of President Nicolas Maduro's Jan. 10 inauguration to a second term, which is widely dismissed as illegitimate. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Latin neighbors press Venezuela’s Maduro to stand down

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

U.S. Border Patrol agents and members of the military pass concertina wire during a tour of the San Ysidro port of entry Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, in San Diego. As thousands of migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers converge on the doorstep of the United States, what they won't find are armed American soldiers standing guard. Instead they will see cranes installing towering panels of metal bars and troops wrapping concertina wire around barriers while military helicopters fly overhead. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Vets, active-duty troops back border security mission, oppose current Afghan, Iraq strategies: Poll

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, Salvadoran migrant Cesar Jobet, right, and Daniel Jeremias Cruz, hide from U.S. border agents, after they dug a hole in the sand under the border structure and crossed over to the U.S. side, in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. The two youths were detected by U.S. border agents and ran back to the Mexican side. Some immigrant youth looking to start over in the United States after fleeing abusive homes are seeing their applications for green cards rejected because the Trump administration says they're too old. A program in place since 1990 has let young immigrants file paperwork before age 21. But the U.S. government says some of these immigrants are too old once they turn 18. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Young immigrants seeking refuge from abuse face denials

By AMY TAXIN and DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

FILE- In this Dec. 2, 2018, file photo cranes at the Port of Gulfport are silhouetted by the setting sun at Gulfport, Miss. The Trump administration and China are facing growing pressure to blink in their six-month stare-down over trade because of jittery markets and portents of economic weakness. The longer their trade war lasts, the longer companies and consumers will feel the pain of higher-priced imports and exports. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Why slowing economies could prod US and China to reach deal

By PAUL WISEMAN and JOE MCDONALD - Associated Press

"We have a very powerful enemy, the 'gringo' empire," Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said during a Dec. 26 event in western Venezuela. "Whoever dares to invade Venezuela, our sacred territory, will meet a people with a rifle in hand and meet [armed forces] ready to fight." (Associated Press/File)

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela president, defies critics before second inauguration

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - This recent undated photo, released Monday, Dec. 17, 2018, by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Sacramento, Calif., shows Ali Hassan with his dying 2-year-old son Abdullah in a Sacramento hospital. Abdullah Hassan, the son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Friday, Dec. 28 that Abdullah died in an Oakland, Calif., hospital. He suffered from a genetic brain condition. (Council on American-Islamic Relations via AP, File)

The Latest: Dad says he’s angry travel ban kept family apart

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In this July 27, 2018, file photo, the Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo. The Trump administration on Friday targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not be worth the cost of the regulation. The 2011 Obama administration rule, called the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, led to what electric utilities say was an $18 billion clean-up of mercury and other toxins from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

EPA targets Obama crackdown on mercury from coal plants

By Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press