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Paul says he won't back Cheney if she runs for Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that he won't back GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney and her support for "endless wars" if she decides to run for the Senate from Wyoming. Paul confirmed on CNN that he's supporting Republican Cynthia Lummis, a former House member. Cheney, meanwhile, doubled...
Embattled Israeli PM fights for survival in do-over election
JERUSALEM (AP) — A visibly frantic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in the fight of his political life as the country heads to national elections for the second time this year. With Netanyahu locked in a razor tight race and facing the likelihood of criminal corruption charges, a decisive victory in...
AP source: Otto Warmbier's parents to have dinner with Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump planned to have dinner Saturday with the parents of an American college student who died in 2017 shortly after being freed from captivity in North Korea. An administration official said Trump was to host the parents of Otto Warmbier, who was convicted of trying to...
A new face at the reins of US diplomacy toward Latin America
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The new acting head of U.S. diplomacy toward Latin America is a seasoned envoy who once floated the idea of going into Chile unilaterally to snatch a politically powerful general who was behind the murder of a leftist politician in Washington in the 1970s. The State Department...
Trump: Pompeo won't take on duties of ousted security aide
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he's not going to be asking Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to take on the duties of former national security adviser John Bolton, who was ousted on Tuesday. Trump says 15 people want the now-vacant national security adviser position. Trump says it's a "great...
Cheney, Paul, duke out foreign policy split in Trump's GOP
WASHINGTON (AP) — He called her a warmonger. She called him a terrorist-supporting loser. And on it went Thursday between Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney in the latest Republican contest to influence — or just figure out — President Donald Trump's foreign policy. At issue...
Some world hot spots see possible openings in Bolton firing
In the world's hot spots from Iran to North Korea — and even among allies — some see opportunity in President Donald Trump's firing of his national security adviser, John Bolton. The hawkish Bolton repeatedly pushed Trump toward using military force and sanctions to accomplish the administration's...
Mnuchin: No meeting planned between Trump and Iran's Rouhani
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-shin) says President Donald Trump has no plans to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (hah-SAHN' roh-HAH'-nee) while he's in New York for the United Nations General Assembly later this month. Mnuchin said Thursday that such a meeting...
Israeli PM: Rocket attacks make new war in Gaza inevitable
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that continued rocket fire from Gaza is making another war against Palestinian militants in the coastal strip inevitable, his latest headline-grabbing announcement just days before he seeks re-election. Netanyahu said advanced plans...
OPEC, allies weigh further oil production cut in December
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — OPEC and its non-cartel allies on Thursday discussed further cuts to oil production and the possibility of Iran re-entering the global market but said that any decision would have to wait for a meeting in December. Global oil prices fell on the news as forecasts...
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