Republicans are threatening to block the usually rubber stamp approval for raising the nation's credit limit if Democrats don't first agree to steep future budget cuts.
Western nations this month finally agreed after serious divisions to send Ukraine modern NATO-standard tanks, one of the most powerful weapons in their conventional armies.
DPRK accused the United States of contributing to the escalation of the Ukrainian war by giving Kyiv additional weapons in an effort to obliterate Russia.
Senior US officials have said in recent months that China appears to be speeding up its timeframe to seize control of Taiwan, a self-governing democracy claimed by Beijing.
The five officers, who are also Black, were fired after an internal investigation found them to have deployed excessive use of force and to have failed to render aid, police said.
Pompeo, who was in Hanoi for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said he was woken up with an urgent call from a senior Indian official.
