WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are challenging President Donald Trump’s nominee to the post of U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia to take a tough line with the kingdom on human rights. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch warned that while Saudi Arabia is a strategically important ally, the alliance must be reconciled with American values. Read more about Senators challenge Trump’s Saudi nominee on human rights[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Firearms use by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agents is declining, and less-lethal force is also down, according to data obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. The decrease comes as fewer people are crossing the border illegally and after the agency overhauled how force should be deployed at the border. Read more about AP Newsbreak: Border agents using firearms less[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she “felt like the system was raping me all over again.” The Arizona Republican, a Read more about Sen. McSally, former Air Force pilot, says officer raped her[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A restive group of newcomers. Baffled party leaders. Fiery conversations behind closed doors that spill into public view and threaten to upend legislation. After a wrenching week for Democrats, it’s hard not to wonder: Does Speaker Nancy Pelosi have a tea party problem? Emboldened by their ability to seize the spotlight and Read more about House infighting: Does Pelosi have a tea party problem?[…]

Where investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him: WHAT’S THIS ALL ABOUT? Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia and whether the president obstructed the investigation. Trump also plays a central role in a separate case in New York, where prosecutors Read more about Where the investigations related to President Trump stand[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump heard words from a judge that the judge didn’t speak, as the president reached to denounce the Russia investigation as a hoax and celebrate an exoneration he wasn’t given. Democrats persisted in assailing the Trump administration for putting migrant children in the same type of holding facilities used when Barack Read more about AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrong about federal judge’s remarks[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on reports of recent activity at missile and rocket sites in North Korea (all times local): 5 p.m. A senior U.S. official says the Trump administration still believes it can reach and implement a denuclearization deal with North Korea by the end of the president’s first term. That’s despite the Read more about The Latest: Official: US still believes it can forge NK deal[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn is not ready to be sentenced yet because “there may be additional cooperation” he can offer as he tries to reduce his potential punishment, according to a court filing Tuesday night. Flynn has been cooperating with prosecutors in Virginia in an ongoing case against Read more about Former Trump adviser Flynn asks for further sentencing delay[…]

Click:candle jar WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on reports of recent activity at missile and rocket sites in North Korea (all times local): 9 p.m. President Donald Trump says he’s a “little disappointed” by reports of new activity at a North Korean missile research center and long-range rocket site. Trump says time will tell if Read more about The Latest: Trump ‘disappointed’ by NK missile activity[…]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cleaning up and protecting U.S. drinking water from a class of toxic chemicals used in many household items could cost in the tens of billions of dollars nationally, including $2 billion for the Department of Defense alone, witnesses testified Wednesday before a House panel urging the federal government to move more quickly Read more about Lawmakers: High costs slowing action on contaminant in water[…]