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In this Dec. 11, 2018 photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Parties and Christmas cookies only soothe so much in the chilly Capitol after two years of President Donald Trump’s provocations, dramas like Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the elections that flipped the House majority to Democrats. Everyone wants to go home, yet both chambers were scheduled to be in session next week over hefty matters, including the budget and criminal sentencing reform. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Cranky Congress still has work to do before wrapup

Everyone in Congress wants to go home, yet both chambers are scheduled to be in session next week over hefty matters, including the budget and criminal sentencing reform
Martin Griffiths, top, the United Nations envoy for Yemen, gives a video briefing to the Security Council at U.N. headquarters Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Griffiths told the council that a speedy presence in the field is "an essential part of the confidence" needed to accompany implementation of Thursday's agreement between Yemen's government and Houthi Shiite rebels. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)

UN envoy: UN monitors needed to observe Yemen cease-fire

The U.N. envoy for Yemen is calling for the urgent deployment of U.N. monitors to observe the implementation of a cease-fire in the strategic port city of Hodeida and the withdrawal of rival forces
Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis arrives to give House members a classified security briefing, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, not shown, on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Russia claims US ignoring outreach on nuclear disagreement

Russia claims Pentagon ignoring efforts to work out nuclear treaty dispute
People wearing their yellow vests demonstrate Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018 in Marseille, southern France. The "yellow vest" movement, which takes its name from the fluorescent safety vests French motorists must all have in their vehicles, emerged in mid-November as a protest against fuel tax increases. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Scuffles with police in Paris but protest largely peaceful

Scuffles have broken out between protesters and police in central Paris on the sidelines of a largely peaceful demonstration, during the fifth straight weekend of protests by the "yellow vest" movement
US says new airstrike in Somalia kills 8 al-Shabab fighters
US says new airstrike in Somalia kills 8 al-Shabab fighters; at least 40 such strikes in 2018
Sri Lanka's disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks with a Buddhist monk after signing his resignation letter at his residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018. Rajapaksa resigned on Saturday, saying he wants to end a political impasse over his appointment. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Sri Lanka's disputed prime minister resigns to end impasse
Sri Lanka's disputed prime minister has resigned, saying he wants to end a long political impasse over his appointment and allow the president to form a new government
FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 file photo, Mukhtar Robow, who was once deputy leader of Africa's deadliest Islamic extremist group the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, speaks at a press conference about his candidacy for a regional presidency, in Baidoa, Somalia. A Somali official says Ethiopian troops that are part of the African Union forces supporting the Somali government have arrested Robow in Baidoa. (AP Photo/File)
Somalia uproar continues after former al-Shabab No. 2 seized
Somalia uproar goes on after former al-Shabab leader-turned-candidate arrested; AU denies role
AP Interview: Catalans on hunger strike speak before trial
AP Interview: Jailed Catalan separatist politicians on hunger strike for the past two weeks say their upcoming trial will be a platform to foster their cause for independence
President Donald Trump speaks to media he visits Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018, during Wreaths Across America Day. Wreaths Across America was started in 1992 at Arlington National Cemetery by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester and has expanded to hundreds of veterans' cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Investigations look at Trump's life from all angles
Trump is under scrutiny in a multitude of investigations bound to distract him, and they will grow when Democrats take the House
FILE - In this April 27, 2006, file photo, the sun sets behind the Mormon Temple, the centerpiece of Temple Square, in Salt Lake City. Fewer than half the residents of Salt Lake County belong to the Mormon church, according to new figures that illustrate how Utah's largest county is becoming more religiously diverse. Mormons account for 49 percent of the 1.1 million residents in Salt Lake County - the lowest percentage since at least the 1930s, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Dec. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
New figures show fewer Mormons in Utah's biggest county
New figures show that fewer than half of the residents in Salt Lake County belong to the Mormon church, a significant milestone that illustrates how the state's largest county is becoming more religiously diverse
Sri Lankan president has reinstated Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister after nearly 2 months of political impasse
Sri Lankan president has reinstated Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister after nearly 2 months of political impasse
Kashmiri villagers watch the joint funeral of a civilian Abid Lone and local rebel Adnan Ahmed in Pulwama, south of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018. At least seven civilians were killed and nearly two dozens injured when government forces fired at anti-India protesters in disputed Kashmir following a gunbattle that left three rebels and a soldier dead on Saturday, police and residents said. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
Strike, lockdown shut Kashmir amid anger over killings
A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule has shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir a day after protests and fighting killed seven civilians and four combatants.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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