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In this file image made from video released by WikiLeaks on Oct. 11, 2013, former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden speaks in Moscow. (AP Photo, File)

Edward Snowden, NSA leaker, questions ‘Presidential Alert’ test: ‘How else might it be used?’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Lawsuits challenging downsizing of monuments to stay in DC

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, left, listens as FEMA Administrator Brock Long, center, talks about Hurricane Florence in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen listens at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Latest: Trump says Puerto storm response ‘unappreciated’

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President Donald Trump talks about Hurricane Florence following a briefing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: Storm response in Puerto Rico ‘incredibly successful’

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump greets Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi upon his arrival to the White House in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Iraq, Trump administration disagree on terms of travel ban deal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A mother from Guatemala, left, identified only by initials L.J., who was separated from her two children after entering the U.S. in May of 2018, receives support from translator Brenda Quintana, right, after speaking to reporters about the separation during a news conference, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, in Boston. L.J. is among plaintiffs in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration, seeking monetary damages on behalf of children who were separated from their parents at the border. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Immigrant families struggling with trauma of separation

By JULIE WATSON and MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, officiates at the swearing-in of Judge Britt Grant to take a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington. SKavanaugh has frequently supported giving the government wide latitude in the name of national security, including the secret collection of personal data from Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Kavanaugh’s support for surveilling Americans raises concern

By DAN SEWELL - Associated Press

A poster for missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa. Tibbetts was reported missing from her hometown in the eastern Iowa city of Brooklyn in July 2018. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

The Latest: Experts say legal status system easily exploited

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Other suspected Nazi war criminals removed from the US

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This July 26, 2018, file photo shows people lining up to cross into the United States to begin the process of applying for asylum near the San Ysidro port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico. A federal judge has extended a freeze on deporting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents to remain in the United States.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Judge tells US officials, ACLU to come up with asylum plan

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

In this Jan. 6, 2017, file photo, a translucent screen shows smart car technology at the Intel booth during CES International in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

New US slap against China: Tighter curbs on tech investment

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

VIDEO STILL, BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - In this still from a video provided by Venezolana de Television, Presiden Nicolas Maduro, center, delivers his speech as his wife Cilia Flores winces and looks up after being startled by and explosion, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an attempted attack on President Maduro. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president. He said Maduro is safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured. (Venezolana de Television via AP)

John Bolton: No U.S. role in Nicolas Maduro assassination attempt

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Post Leak Helps Terrorists Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why Osama bin Laden stopped using his intercepted phone

By Ronald Kessler

In this May 2018 handout image provided by Evelin Roxana Meyer, her son, Eduardo Almendarez Meyer, right, is seen alongside his father and her husband, Douglas Almendarez, in La Union, Honduras, a day before they left for the United States. The two were separated at the Texas border, and the father was deported. The 11-year-old boy remains in US government custody in a Texas shelter. (Evelin Roxana Meyer via AP)

Immigrant parents fight chaotic system for their children

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JULIE WATSON and GISELA SALOMON - Associated Press

A woman pushes a stroller near a sign for international arrivals at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, June 26, 2017, in Seattle. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that President Donald Trump's travel ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen can be enforced if those visitors lack a &quot;credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States,&quot; and that justices will hear full arguments in October 2017. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Feds nab man for smuggling ‘special interest’ migrants from Yemen

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2017, file photo, Russell Langi Salic, center, a Filipino doctor accused by U.S. authorities of plotting attacks in New York City, including in concert venues and Times Square, arrives at a trial court for his extradition hearing in Manila, Philippines. A Philippine court on Friday, July 27, 2018, granted a U.S. government request for the extradition of the Filipino doctor suspected by U.S. authorities of being an Islamic State group sympathizer and plotting bombings and shootings at New York City concert venues, subway stations and Times Square. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Manila court OKs US request for terror suspect’s extradition

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Sales of 3-D printers are expected to double to 217,000 this year. The Defense Department is testing how they can help soldiers in the field by "printing" food, medicine and weapons, and is even exploring the ideas of printing antennas and warheads. (Associated Press)

Software for 3-D printed guns available Aug. 1

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this July 18, 2018 photo, Rolando Bueso Castillo and his wife Adalicia Montecinos, stand in their home in La Libertad, Honduras. It's been five months since they have seen their infant son Johan Bueso Castillo who was separated from Bueso Castillo at the Texas border in March and sent to a shelter in Arizona. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

‘Suffering’ ends with Honduran baby back in parents’ arms

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

During an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Evanston, Illinois, Lidia Karine Souza, who is seeking asylum from Brazil, sheds a tear as she talks about the ordeal she has lived in searching for and finally seeing her son for the first time on Tuesday. It took Souza weeks to find Diogo after he was taken from her at the Texas border in late May and sent by the government to a Chicago shelter. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Brazilian boy, 9, released to mom after US judge’s order

By MICHAEL TARM and MARTHA IRVINE - Associated Press

During an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday, June 27, 2018, in Evanston, Illinois, Lidia Karine Souza, who is seeking asylum from Brazil, flips through her phone at photographs of her and her son Diogo as she talks about the ordeal she has lived in searching for and finally seeing her son for the first time on Tuesday. It took Souza weeks to find Diogo after he was taken from her at the Texas border in late May and sent by the government to a Chicago shelter. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

The Latest: Senate panel OKs head of agency overseeing kids

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