The Associated Press and the Trump administration renewed their argument Monday over a president's ability to limit media access to journalists he disagrees with, resuming a courtroom dispute with potential First Amendment implications that began last winter when the president announced that he had renamed the Gulf of Mexico. | AP

Facing a Pentagon investigation after President Donald Trump accused him of sedition “punishable by DEATH,” Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona is showing little interest in backing down. | AP

Two West Virginia National Guard members shot Wednesday near the White House. AP reporter Gary Fields is at the scene. | AP

The raging fire sent up a column of flames and thick smoke as it spread on bamboo scaffolding that had been set up around the exterior of the complex in the city’s Tai Po district, a suburban area in the northern part of Hong Kong in the New Territories and near the border with the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen. | AP