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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin talks with reporters at the White House, in Washington. Mnuchin says that the negative market reaction following the Federal Reserve's rate hike was "completely overblown." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Treasury Secretary talks to bank CEOs amid Wall St. jitters

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File - This June 21, 2017, file photo shows a women's area at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour of the facility. The federal facility, operated under contract by The GEO Group, is used to house people detained on immigration and other violations. A federal judge says immigrant rights activists can continue to challenge what they describe as unlawful U.S. government delays for asylum cases. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle dismissed some arguments raised by the lawsuit in a ruling Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Judge declines to dismiss challenge to US asylum delays

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

File - This June 21, 2017, file photo shows a women's area at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour of the facility. The federal facility, operated under contract by The GEO Group, is used to house people detained on immigration and other violations. A federal judge says immigrant rights activists can continue to challenge what they describe as unlawful U.S. government delays for asylum cases. U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle dismissed some arguments raised by the lawsuit in a ruling Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Judge Marsha Pechman backs immigrant rights activists in asylum case

By Gene Johnson - Associated Press

A helicopter monitors the U.S. border fence from above, as Border Patrol agents prepare for the arrival of hundreds of pro-migration protestors on the San Diego side, seen from Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Trump threatens shutdown in wild encounter with Democrats

By MATTHEW DALY and CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

In this May 19, 2017, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange greets supporters from a balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Lawyers seeking access to sealed Julian Assange case argue DOJ lacks justification for secrecy

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this June 5, 2018 ,file photo, actress Anne Hathaway attends the world premiere of "Ocean's 8" in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Anne Hathaway: ‘My country gassed children’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Former Donald Trump presidential campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who triggered the Russia investigation, and who pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI, leaves federal court after he was sentenced to fourteen days in prison, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mueller, Papadopoulos lawyers fight over start of former Trump adviser’s prison sentence

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Exile won’t stop Vietnamese blogger from highlighting abuses

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Puerto Rico seeks more funds, help from Congress post-Maria

By DANICA COTO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2018, file photo, North Korean customers get assistance at a supermarket in Pyongyang, North Korea. One of the biggest mysteries among North Korea economy watchers is how the country has managed to maintain stable exchange rates despite intense sanctions, political tensions and a swelling trade imbalance. The North claims it simply shows how strong the economy really is. But outside experts say it could reflect anything from tight loan policies and government restrictions on speculative dealing to a massive sell-off of state assets. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

North Korea’s stable exchange rates confound economists

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

A U.S. scientist said he took part in the work in China, but this kind of gene editing is banned in the United States because the DNA changes can pass to future generations and it risks harming other genes. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

US panel warns against government purchase of Chinese tech

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Marines patrol during work to fortify the border structure that separates Tijuana, Mexico, behind, and San Diego, near the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in San Diego. The military along the California border with Mexico worked Friday to fortify the border structure, including adding concertina wire to the tops of the rusting wall of corrugated metal. The military is expected to have the vast majority of the more than 7,000 troops planned for the border-wide mission deployed by Monday, and that number could grow. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. ‘hardening’ Tijuana border crossing ahead of migrant caravan

By Maria Verza - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, a warning sign stands in a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport, during a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam. The sign reads; &quot;Dioxin contamination zone - livestock, poultry and fishery operations not permitted.&quot; Vietnam and the United States have finished cleaning up dioxin contamination at the airport caused by the transport and storage of the herbicide on and around the area. (AP Photo/Maika Elan, File)

Vietnam, US complete cleanup of toxic chemical from airport

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The United Nations children’s agency said this month that Yemen’s economic crisis and the relentless violence at a key Red Sea port city risks leaving millions of children and families without food, clean water and sanitation. Saudi Arabia has become mired in a proxy war with Iran, and the fallout from Jamal Khashoggi's death could give the U.S. government and a rising number of private critics of the conflict an opening to pressure the kingdom to scale back its conflict with Yemen's Houthi rebels. (Associated Press/File)

Jamal Khashoggi killing hurts Saudi war in Yemen

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump talks about drug prices during a visit to the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. HHS Secretary Alex Azar listens at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Alex Azar, HHS secretary: Donald Trump’s moves are ‘ultimate nightmare’ for Big Pharma

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump talks about drug prices during a visit to the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump: U.S. will pay same as other nations for select drugs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Missouri landfill operator sues for help with EPA cleanup

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FILE - In this July 18, 2018, file photo, lawyers and youth plaintiffs lineup behind a banner after a hearing before Federal District Court Judge Ann Aiken between lawyers for the Trump Administration and the so called Climate Kids in Federal Court in Eugene, Ore. The U.S. government is trying once again to block a major climate change lawsuit days before young activists are set to argue at trial that the government has violated their constitutional rights by failing to take action climate change. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, the Justice Department for a second time this year asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss the case. The high court in July denied the request as premature. (Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard via AP, File)

Young climate activists say their lawsuit should go to trial

By PHUONG LE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, five of the 21 youth plaintiffs in a federal climate change lawsuit against the federal government, including, from left, Sahara Valentine, 11, Jacob Lebel, 19, Avery McRae, 10, Miko Vergun, 15, Kelsey Julianna, 20, and Zealand Bell, 11, celebrate on the courthouse steps in Eugene, Ore., after U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken rejected requests from the federal government and trade groups representing many of the world's largest energy companies to dismiss their lawsuit. The U.S. government is trying once again to block a major climate change lawsuit days before young activists are set to argue at trial that the government has violated their constitutional rights by failing to take action climate change. On Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, the Justice Department for a second time this year asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss the case. The high court in July denied the request as premature. (Chris Pietsch /The Register-Guard via AP, File)

The Latest: Supreme Court stalls youth climate change case

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Cambodia agrees to resumption of searches for US MIAs

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