The Saudi government said it fired five top officials and arrested 18 other Saudis as a result of an investigation showing that Washington Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi died in a fistfight in the country’s consulate in Istanbul.
Turkey’s revelations have shaken Saudi leaders and forced the Trump administration to consider distancing itself from the kingdom.
Khashoggi, a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, disappeared after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. (AP)
The criticism clashes with President Trump’s desire to continue to export planes, missiles and tanks to the kingdom, which he said is vital for the American economy and national security.
The Trump administration’s struggles to curtail illegal immigration have exposed a deep rift among the president and his top advisers, one that could lead to changes in the Cabinet and undermine the government’s response to a record surge of migrant families at the southern border.
This marks the first criminal case prosecutors have brought accusing a foreign national of interference in the upcoming midterm elections.
(Shonagh Rae for The Washington Post)
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National security adviser John Bolton has told U.S. allies he believes the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty puts Washington in an “excessively weak position” against Russia “and more importantly China,” a diplomat said.
Suzanne Israel Tufts's departure ends a madcap week, as the administration quickly scuttled an arrangement to make her acting Interior watchdog amid media reports and scrutiny from Capitol Hill lawmakers.
The decline in fertility rates in the United States has been going on so long that if things continue, demographers say, the country may face an extreme population imbalance in the future.
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