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Senators press Saudi crown prince on Jamal Khashoggi slaying

Sen. Angus King, an Independent from Maine, and Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young told CNN on Tuesday that they pressed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about last year's murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a meeting in Jeddah over the weekend.

Rubio: Saudi prince has gone 'full gangster'

Retired Gen. John Abizaid's nomination hearing Wednesday to be the Trump administration's first ambassador to Saudi Arabia became a bipartisan rant about the kingdom's "gangster"-like abuses, its regional disruptions under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the potential impact on US national security interests.

Saudi crown prince arrives in China

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman touched down in Beijing Thursday to begin the last leg of his Asia tour, designed to build relations and clinch deals as the kingdom faces a diplomatic chill in the West.

Saudi crown prince builds ties with Asian powers

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has signed agreements worth $20 billion with Pakistan at the start of an Asian tour widely seen as an attempt to bolster ties and improve the kingdom's image after a troubling year.

Lawmakers plan to pressure Trump on Khashoggi

Senators furious about the killing of Jamal Khashoggi are working on a bipartisan effort to exert more pressure on the White House as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Monday the administration is not "covering up for a murder."

Report: National Enquirer asked DOJ it needed to register as foreign agent

Not long after it published a glossy magazine touting Saudi Arabia and its crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, American Media Inc. — otherwise best known as the company behind the National Enquirer — appears to have gone to the Justice Department with a question: Had the fawning publication made American Media a foreign agent?

Mohammed bin Salman's inner circle takes the blame for Khashoggi's death

After 18 days in which Saudi Arabia adamantly denied that any harm had come to Jamal Khashoggi at its consulate in Istanbul, it committed a startling about-face. Not only did Riyadh admit that Khashoggi came to a violent end, it pinned the blame on some of the closest aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.

Pressure grows on Saudis over missing journalist

President Donald Trump vowed in a "60 Minutes" interview that the United States would get to the bottom of what happened to a missing Saudi journalist and that there would be "severe punishment" if he were found to have been killed.