MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian official says the nation's new strategic weapon has made any missile defenses useless. Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Russian state television Thursday that the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle flies 27 times faster than the speed of sound, making it impossible to intercept. 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of partying on a beach in Puerto Rico - with lobbyists, no less - while he sat in the White House over the weekend ready to work out a deal to end the federal shutdown. It's not true.

On Monday the White House said it would reverse previous policy and direct the IRS to pay out tax refunds during the partial government shutdown. The announcement came in a briefing from acting Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is pushing back on talk by some House Democrats of impeaching him. On Friday, Trump asked in a tweet: "How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong" and has had the "most successful two years of any president."

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says President Donald Trump will be traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday as a partial government shutdown continues.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessors endorsed his idea of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) - Television networks airing President Donald Trump's Oval Office speech on his proposed border wall and the partial government shutdown have also committed to airing the Democratic response to the president.

Stock markets across Asia are opening on a positive trend this morning after President Trump said he would postpone a March deadline for tariff hikes on Chinese imports.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on the Trump administration's decision to pull out of a U.S.-Russia arms control treaty (all times local):

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state Senate has unanimously approved revisions to Initiative 940, the measure voters passed last November to make it easier to prosecute police officers for negligent shootings.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on President Donald Trump, Congress and border security (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Latest on Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone (all times local):

WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior Republican lawmaker says the cost of insulin is "unacceptable" and he plans to investigate.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is dismissing a tell-all book by a former White House aide as "made up stories and fiction."

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has donated his salary from the third-quarter of 2018 to the federal agency that researches alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.

NEW YORK (AP) - The Latest on delays in U.S. air travel (all times local):

President Donald Trump says he is planning to deliver his State of the Union address next week in front of a joint session of Congress - despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's request that he delay.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Kamala Harris is running for president.

Senate Bill No. 5001 would make Washington the first state in the country to legalize "recomposition," an alternative to burial and cremation.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House intelligence committee chairman said he will "do what is necessary" to confirm a published report that President Donald Trump directed his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations over a real estate project in Moscow during the 2016 election.

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is canceling a congressional fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and claiming the White House leaked her plans to fly commercial.