Mnuchin still plans to attend Saudi anti-terror financing meeting after Khashoggi disappearance  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has decided to take part in an anti-terror finance meeting with Saudi security officials and their Middle Eastern counterparts in Riyadh later this month …

As Khashoggi crisis grows, Saudi king asserts authority, checks son's power: sources  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - So grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene, five sources with links to the Saudi royal family said.

Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro Accuses Kushner of Orchestrating Khashoggi Killing  —  Without evidence, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), a member of the House intelligence committee, said Jared Kushner might have passed a “hit list” to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman resulting …

Khashoggi's alleged murder says as much about America as Saudi Arabia  —  The apparent barbaric killing of Jamal Khashoggi tells us something important about Saudi Arabia.  But it also tells us something important about the United States.  —  First, Saudi Arabia.

A President Who Believes He Is Entitled to His Own Facts  —  WASHINGTON — He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts.  He disputes the existence of man-made climate change and insists that photographic evidence of the crowd at his inauguration is fake, part of a media plot to harm him.

Georgia purged an estimated 107,000 people largely for not voting, an APM Reports investigation shows  —  A handful of states, most of them led by Republicans, are using someone's decision not to vote as the trigger for removing them from the rolls.  No state has been more aggressive …