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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich, left, review an honor guard in Hanoi, Vietnam. By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Mattis is showing how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China’s military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region who share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning Tuesday also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced since the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War, whose legacy includes a continued search for the remains of U.S. war dead on Vietnamese soil. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh, File)

Mattis trip to Vietnam aimed at countering China’s influence

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a dragline excavator moves rocks above a coal seam at the Spring Creek Mine in Decker, Mont. The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

The Latest: Governor: Coal export idea is ‘harebrained’ plan

Associated Press

In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a mining dumper truck hauls coal at Cloud Peak Energy's Spring Creek strip mine near Decker, Mont. The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

U.S. eyes military bases for coal, gas exports

By Matthew Brown - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Vietnamese counterpart Ngo Xuan Lich, left, review an honor guard in Hanoi, Vietnam. By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Mattis is showing how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China’s military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region who share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning Tuesday also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced since the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War, whose legacy includes a continued search for the remains of U.S. war dead on Vietnamese soil. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh, File)

Mattis pushes closer ties to Vietnam amid tension with China

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Buehler criticizes proposed US rule changes on immigrants

Associated Press

President Trump delivers remarks Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, at the Orange County Convention Center, in Orlando, Fla. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Trump administration steps in to kill police-reform plan

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Trump administration appeals ruling that immigrants can stay

Associated Press

In this Oct. 10, 2018, file photo, people hold signs during a protest at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Washington. The Trump administration’s ongoing courtship of Saudi Arabia is on pause over allegations that the key U.S. ally is involved in the mysterious disappearance of a Saudi writer and dissident who went into his nation’s consulate in Turkey but never came out. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File )

Journalist’s disappearance tests Trump’s close Saudi ties

By DEB RIECHMANN and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2015, file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. The disappearance of Khashoggi, during a visit to his country’s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, raises a dark question for anyone who dares criticize governments or speak out against those in power: Will the world have their back? (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Sense of impunity emboldens autocrats to get rid of enemies

By SARAH EL DEEB and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde talks during a press conference ahead of the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

IMF plans talks with Pakistan on debt help

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, photo, Paul Buzzell explains the process of making levels, at the Johnson Level and Tool plant, in Mequon, Wis. But about half the levels the company sells are imported from China and tariff increases on those products could cost the business an estimated $3.7 million annually, Buzzell said. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)

Months of anxiety for Wisconsin manufacturers amid trade war

By IVAN MORENO - Associated Press

People hold signs during a protest at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jamal Khashoggi disappearance after Saudi Consulate visit creates diplomatic crisis

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Trump delivers remarks Monday, Oct. 8, 2018, at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, at the Orange County Convention Center, in Orlando, Fla. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Trump administration opposes Chicago police-reform plan

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo, released by an official website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency, shows a part of the Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran. Bijan Zanganeh, Iran's oil minister, said the United States will not succeed in its plans to halt Iranian crude exports even as he acknowledged that South Korea has stopped buying oil from Tehran, Iranian media reported on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)

India to buy Iran oil, defy U.S. sanctions

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 29, 2018 photo, Hadi Mohammed sits with his 9 year old son Mohammed Ghaleb, as he displays a photo of his son as a baby in Baghdad, in their Lincoln, Neb. apartment. Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Stricter US screening splits anguished refugee families

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

"There are a lot of opportunities out there" in the private sector for young men and women who might once have considered a military career, said Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley. (Associated Press/File)

Army recruiters deployed to meet enlistment goal

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2017, file photo, demonstrators rally in support of net neutrality outside a Verizon store in New York. Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court would put a spotlight on the dozens of federal cases pitting the Trump administration against Democratic-leaning states, on issues including auto emission standards, immigration and a free-flowing internet. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Kavanaugh impartiality to be tested in blue state lawsuits

By GEOFF MULVIHILL - Associated Press

FILE In this June 21, 2018 file photo, a job applicant looks at job listings for the Riverside Hotel at a job fair hosted by Job News South Florida, in Sunrise, Fla. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in September 2018 the lowest level since December 1969 — signaling how the longest streak of hiring on record has put millions of Americans back to work. Employers added just 134,000 jobs last month, the fewest in a year, the Labor Department said Friday, Oct. 5. But that figure was likely depressed by the impact of Hurricane Florence. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

As joblessness falls, skilled workers might be hard to find

By JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

In this Sept. 29, 2018 photo, Hadi Mohammed sits with his 9 year old son Mohammed Ghaleb, as he displays a photo of his son as a baby in Baghdad, in their Lincoln, Neb. apartment. Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Trump refugee policy leaves thousands stranded outside US

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and COLLEEN LONG - Associated Press

FILE In this June 21, 2018 file photo, a job applicant looks at job listings for the Riverside Hotel at a job fair hosted by Job News South Florida, in Sunrise, Fla. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 3.7 percent in September 2018 the lowest level since December 1969 — signaling how the longest streak of hiring on record has put millions of Americans back to work. Employers added just 134,000 jobs last month, the fewest in a year, the Labor Department said Friday, Oct. 5. But that figure was likely depressed by the impact of Hurricane Florence. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

As joblessness falls, skilled workers might be hard to find

By JOSH BOAK - Associated Press