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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, David Friedman, nominated to be U.S. Ambassador to Israel, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Donald Trump and his envoys are sending mixed messages about their support for an independent Palestinian state, confusing a world that has traditionally looked for American leadership on one of the Mideast’s most intractable conflicts. () (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Largest branch of American Judaism opposes Trump envoy pick

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Former ambassadors say Donald Trump’s pick for Israel is unqualified

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y, center, joined by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, left, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the Intelligence Committee, right, calls for an investigation into President Donald Trump's administration over its relationship with Russia, including when Trump learned that his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had discussed U.S. sanctions with a Russian diplomat, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2016, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Dems call for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Russia probe

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In this Jan. 26, 2017, photo, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, read the Wall Street Journal newspaper as they wait for President Donald Trump to speak at the House and Senate GOP lawmakers at the annual policy retreat in Philadelphia. McCain has emerged as Trump’s top Republican nemesis on Capitol Hill. Since Trump’s inauguration, McCain has broken with the president on his immigration order, warned him against any rapprochement with Moscow and lectured him on the illegality of torture. He supplied only a tepid endorsement of Rex Tillerson, Trump’s secretary of state nominee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Pushing back: McCain emerges as Trump’s top Republican nemesis in Congress

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U.S. military botches online fight against Islamic State

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Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard met with Syria’s Assad during trip

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file-pool photo, Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with the media in Paris. Defying Republican opposition, officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking. The official said John Kerry had informed some lawmakers of the move shortly before he left the State Department for the last time on. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool, File) (AP)

U.S. sent $221 million to Palestinians in Obama’s last hours

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Senators join forces on legislation to punish Russia

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Expelled Nazis paid millions in Social Security

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FILE - This June 21, 2013 file photo shows a steamroller and a backhoe used to crush seized elephant tusks during a destruction ceremony at the Protected Areas and Wildlife Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. Political and military elites are seizing protected areas in one of Africas last bastions for elephants, putting broad swaths of Zimbabwe at risk of becoming fronts for ivory poaching, according to a nonprofit research groups report that examines government collusion in wildlife trafficking. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File) (AP)

APNewsBreak: Africa land grabs endanger elephants

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Military: Sexual assault is “like a cancer”

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Sexual assaults could spur overhaul of military justice system

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Senate committee set to vote on Obama’s CIA choice

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Senate’s top Democrat hits GOP for blocking Hagel

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FILE - In this May 2, 2011 file photo taken by a local resident, the wreckage of a helicopter next to the wall of the compound where according to officials, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The U.S. suspects that Pakistan retaliated for the humiliating American raid that killed Osama bin Laden by letting the Chinese military see secret American technology used in the mission. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair, File) (AP/Mohammad Zubair)

U.S. tells court bin Laden photos must stay secret

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The Pentagon.

Decades after leak, Pentagon Papers coming out

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Libyan rebels run for cover after coming under heavy artillery fire from pro-Gadhafi forces along the front line near Brega, Libya, Friday, April 1, 2011. Libya's rebels will agree to a cease-fire if Moammar Gadhafi pulls his military forces out of cities and allows peaceful protests against his regime, an opposition leader said Friday as rebels showed signs that their front-line organization is improving. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) (AP)

U.S. extends airstrike role in Libya through Monday

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President Barack Obama delivers his address on Libya at the National Defense University in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (AP)

Fact-checking Obama’s Libya speech

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Libyan men celebrates on a destroyed tank belonging to the forces of Moammar Gadhafi in the outskirts of Benghazi, eastern Libya, Sunday, March 20, 2011. The tanks were destroyed earlier by U.S. and allied airstrikes. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) (AP)

Coalition strikes more Gadhafi defenses

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GOP slows whistle-blower protection

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Report says U.S. bomb-sniffing dogs are poorly trained

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When tweets can make you a jailbird

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Some saw warning signs with Hasan

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