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FILE - In this March 18, 2018, file photo, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi listens to the opening speech at the Leaders Plenary during ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Sydney, Australia. The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on companies across the globe to punish illicit trade with nuclear-armed North Korea, yet Myanmar, which is suspected of acquiring ballistic missile systems from the pariah state, has escaped the full force of the “maximum pressure” campaign. (Mark Metcalfe/Pool via AP)

Lawmakers call for pressure on Myanmar over Pyongyang ties

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

A person, who refused to give their name, checks a sign on the door of the Russian consulate office stating that the office is closed and not accepting any new passport applications in Seattle, Wash., Monday, March 26, 2018. The United States and more than a dozen European nations kicked out Russian diplomats on Monday and the Trump administration ordered Russia's consulate in Seattle to close, as the West sought joint punishment for Moscow's alleged poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain. (AP Photo/Eugene Johnson)

Closure of Seattle Russian consulate frustrates travelers

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

The Gulf of Mexico has been a drilling hub for so long that much of the easily recoverable fuel is gone, analysts say. (Associated Press/File)

Shale tops Gulf for oil developers, huge lease sale suggests

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Smarter solutions needed to jump-start infrastructure projects

By Sen. Tom Carper

President Barack Obama speaks before signing the "Every Student Succeeds Act," a major education law setting U.S. public schools on a new course of accountability, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, in Washington. The law will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools are pushed to improve. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama school discipline directive fueling classroom chaos

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2017, file photo, acting Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan, right, speaks as U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Deputy Commissioner Ronald Vitiello, looks on at a Department of Homeland Security news conference in Washington. At a round table on sanctuary cities at the White House on Tuesday, March 20, 2018, Homan mentioned three Northern California cases as examples of &quot;undocumented criminals&quot; who have reoffended after being released by California authorities. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

ICE director set to testify in California immigration suit

By DON THOMPSON - Associated Press

Sessions to address black law enforcement group in Alabama

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. Nauert's unlikely climb has taken her from &quot;Fox &amp; Friends&quot; to the upper echelons of American diplomacy in less than a year. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

At State Department, Heather Nauert’s star is ascendant

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. The State Department says President Donald Trump is "on the same page" with the rest of U.S. government with his fiery threat to North Korea. Nauert said the White House, State Department and Pentagon are all in agreement. She says the world, too, is speaking with one voice. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Heather Nauert rise takes State Department by surprise

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 7, 2017 file photo, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe appears before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday, March 16, 2018, that he has fired former FBI Deputy Director McCabe, a longtime and frequent target of President Donald Trump's anger, just two days before his scheduled retirement date. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Sessions fires former FBI Deputy Director McCabe

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. Federal immigration agents arrested 115 people during a three-day operation in the San Diego area amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and the state of California over immigration enforcement. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP, File)

Immigration agency’s latest California focus hits San Diego

By ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

A jumbo screen in Tokyo shows President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who have agreed to face-to-face talks about the North’s nuclear program. (Associated Press/File)

White House growing N. Korea team in anticipation of talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington is seen here on Sept. 22, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

ACLU sues government over detention of asylum seekers

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, left, and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg, right, listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on tax policy at the Boeing Company, Wednesday, March 14, 2018, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump hits Russia with new sanctions for election meddling

By S.A. Miller and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

US appeals court upholds Texas’ ban on ‘sanctuary cities’

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

Lauren Rees holds up a sign during a rally against a upcoming scheduled visit by President Donald Trump Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego. Protesters chanted, “No ban! No wall!” near the San Ysidro border crossing, where tens of thousands of people enter the U.S. daily from Tijuana, Mexico, many on their way to work or school in San Diego. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Trump’s visit to California sparks protests, rallies

By JULIE WATSON and ELLIOT SPAGAT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2018, file photo, part of President Donald Trump's 160-page budget summary for fiscal year 2019 that deals with the Environmental Protection Agency and that mentions the term &quot;Climate Change&quot; is photographed in Washington. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam on Monday, March 12, 2018, ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to complete the designations by the end of April. The term &quot;Climate Change&quot; is only mentioned once in the name of a science program marked for elimination at the EPA. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Judge: Trump administration violated law over smog findings

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

FILE- This April 17, 2014, file photo shows ongoing construction of a rail tunnel, left, at the Hudson Yards redevelopment site on Manhattan's west side in New York. Amtrak constructed a concrete box inside the project to preserve space for a tunnel from New Jersey to New York across the Hudson River. President Donald Trump called for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure investment in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. Questions surrounding Trump's infrastructure plan are likely to leave costly projects, such as plans for the new Hudson River tunnel. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File) **FILE**

New York-New Jersey tunnel funding setting stage for shutdown showdown

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Angela Henriquez, second from left, hugs her children Jessica, left, and Fernando as they listen to speakers at a news conference announcing a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United States outside of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, March 12, 2018. Plaintiffs are alleging the decision to end temporary protected status for El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Sudan was racially motivated. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Immigrants sue US over end to temporary protected status

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press