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Former Vice President Al Gore speaks during an interview in Greensboro, N.C., Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Gore is in North Carolina to speak on behalf of the Poor People's Campaign, including an event Monday night in Greensboro. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Al Gore says Donald Trump has had ‘less of an impact so far than I feared’ on environment

By Martha Waggoner - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, photo, Afghan security personnel patrol in the city of Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan. A Taliban assault on Ghazni, a key city linking areas of Taliban influence barely 75 miles from Kabul, has killed about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers since Friday, the Afghan Defense Ministry said. A year after the Trump administration introduced its strategy for Afghanistan, the Taliban are asserting themselves on the battlefield even as U.S. officials talk up hopes for peace. That’s raising questions about the viability of the American game plan for ending a war that began when some of the current U.S. troops were in diapers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Anwar Danishyar)

Taliban surprise offensive in Afghanistan catches U.S. military off guard

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Gore: Trump not yet as damaging to environment as he feared

By MARTHA WAGGONER - Associated Press

Helen Aguirre Ferre, director of media affairs, quietly left the White House

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on prescription drug pricing, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

HHS chief to states: Don’t spoil Trump’s ‘short-term’ health plans

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this July 13, 2018, photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) ** FILE **

Jeff Sessions threatened by judge with contempt over asylum deportation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, June 12, 2018, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore. Mr. Trump has already met twice with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but he is eager to re-create in Finland the heady experience that he had last month with Mr. Jong-un. That Singapore summit became a mass media event complete with powerful presidential images. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Iran tells N. Korea the U.S. is ‘untrustworthy’ and urges closer ties with Tehran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE- In this March 27, 2018, photo, people record the reveal of the new iPad during an Apple event at Lane Technical College Prep High School in Chicago. The Trump administration’s hit list of Chinese products facing import taxes includes key components used in gadgets that can be wirelessly operated through a smartphone or another device. The tariffs also will nail networking equipment that makes the internet work. Trump has also threatened to impose tariffs on a total of $500 billion worth of Chinese items. That could affect major technology products such as Apple’s iPhones, which are assembled in China. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Trump going ahead with taxes on $16B in Chinese imports

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

In this March 22, 2017, file photo President Donald Trump , left, and Texas State Sen. Dawn Buckingham, right, listen as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma speaks during a meeting on women in healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump gives Medicare plans new tool to squeeze Big Pharma

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Members of the Center for Biological Diversity and other immigrant advocates protest outside 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court hearing challenging Trump's border wall Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. A federal appeals court will hear arguments by the state of California that the Trump administration overreached by waiving environmental reviews to speed construction of the president's prized border wall with Mexico. At issue Tuesday before a three-judge panel in Pasadena, California, is a 2005 law that gave the Homeland Security secretary broad authority to waive dozens of laws including the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Ariel Tu)

Latest: Border wall challenge hinges on court jurisdiction

Associated Press

FILE- In this Oct. 25, 2015, photo, Tampa Bay Buccaneers fullback Jorvorskie Lane wears Beats headphones before an NFL football game against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md. The Trump administration’s hit list of Chinese products facing import taxes includes key components used in gadgets that can be wirelessly operated through a smartphone or another device. The tariffs also will nail networking equipment that makes the internet work. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)

Trump’s China trade war pulls consumer tech into crossfire

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and LORIN ELENI GILL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump responds to a reporter's question on health care after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Trump says insurers are “going wild” about his new health care options and “millions and millions” of people will be signing up. But insurance companies say it will take time to design new plans and get approval from state regulators, and two major industry groups have actually expressed concern about potential downsides for consumers.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Insurance companies approach Trump health plans cautiously

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Karrar Noaman Al Khammasi

Refugee charged with murder was in ICE custody in 2016

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Atlas of the Middle East Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why an ‘Arab NATO’ must keep Israel in the mix

By Daniel Gallington and Abraham Wagner

A U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council soldier passes a U.S. position near the tense front line with Turkish-backed fighters. (Associated Press/File)

New sanctions will not harm U.S.-Turkey cooperation in Syria, says Pentagon

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Peter Sprunger-Froese, with hat, joins a group of about 120 people as they stand on the front steps of the Colorado Springs City Hall, Colo., Tuesday, March 22, 2016, to protest against a resolution drafted by Councilman Andres Pico to ban refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern countries from relocating to Colorado Springs. Pico said his intention was to heighten security, not to disparage refugees, The Gazette reports. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) ** FILE **

Iraqi refugee charged with attempted murder of Colorado police officer

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In a Friday, July 13, 2018 file photo, first lady Melania Trump takes a seat during a visit to The Royal Hospital Chelsea in central London. First lady Melania Trump’s move to distance herself from President Donald Trump’s criticism of NBA superstar LeBron James was the latest instance of her quiet but seemingly concerted effort to subtly create space between herself and her husband, careful not to criticize him directly while making clear she does not agree with him. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, Pool, File)

Melania Trump shows independence at key moments

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In a Friday, July 13, 2018 file photo, first lady Melania Trump takes a seat during a visit to The Royal Hospital Chelsea in central London. First lady Melania Trump’s move to distance herself from President Donald Trump’s criticism of NBA superstar LeBron James was the latest instance of her quiet but seemingly concerted effort to subtly create space between herself and her husband, careful not to criticize him directly while making clear she does not agree with him. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, Pool, File)

Amid James flap, Melania Trump again charts her own course

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump responds to a reporter's question on health care after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Trump says insurers are “going wild” about his new health care options and “millions and millions” of people will be signing up. But insurance companies say it will take time to design new plans and get approval from state regulators, and two major industry groups have actually expressed concern about potential downsides for consumers.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Slow rollout, more fine print with Trump health care options

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

In this Monday, July 23, 2018 photo, lobster fisherman Ernie Piton looks out from his boat Risky Business in Key Largo, in the Florida Keys. Lobster fishermen in the Florida Keys fear a trade war with China could undermine storm recovery in the island chain. Lobsters are among the seafood and other U.S. goods hit by Chinese tariffs in early July, after the Trump administration put tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of Chinese goods. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Florida lobster fishermen fear trade war amid Irma recovery

By JENNIFER KAY - Associated Press