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Senate votes to block Trump-backed Saudi arms sales

A bipartisan group of lawmakers voted Thursday to halt the Trump administration's push to circumvent Congress and expedite $8.1 billion in arms sales to Gulf countries by declaring an emergency.

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Drivers assume Tesla's Autopilot offers more leeway than it does, IIHS study finds - Roadshow

What's in a name? A lot, apparently.

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Border Patrol chief says description of immigration facilities as 'concentration camps' is 'offensive'

Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost said she found remarks comparing facilities along the southern border to concentration camps "offensive," during a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing Thursday.

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Congressional leaders to go to White House for Iran briefing in Situation Room

The White House invited the top congressional leadership to the White House for a briefing on Iran Thursday afternoon, which the President is expected to attend, according to a source familiar with the plans.

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Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping Stage a Pyongyang Love Fest

Greg Baker/Getty SEOUL—China's President Xi Jinping got a 21-gun salute as he and his wife arrived Thursday in Pyongyang. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un was on hand at Sunan airport with his wife and nearly 10,000 of his people waving flowers and chanting slogans. Another 200,000 reportedly lined the streets as Xi and Kim rode into town in a roofless limousine for a ceremonial call at the mausoleum containing the remains of Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather, dynasty founder Kim Il Sung. It was a set piece opening on the way to a pre-scripted denouement on Friday at which Xi is sure to wind up his first visit to the North Korean capital just as he began it, promising full support to whatever Kim has to say about denuclearization. Kim has visited Xi in Beijing four times, but Xi's presence in Pyongyang as the first Chinese leader to go there in 14 years made plain how strongly he wants to show his allegiance to Kim's strategy for dealing with the United States. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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Hong Kong protesters refuse to back down over extradition bill

Protesters in Hong Kong are refusing to back down after the city's embattled leader Carrie Lam ignored a deadline to permanently scrap a controversial extradition bill. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio reports from Hong Kong.

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