WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

Federal documents relating to several high-profile assassinations during the 1960s will become fully available to the public this year after President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered their release.

The Trump administration has shut down processing centers in Central and South American countries that allowed migrants to apply to come to the United States legally.

President Donald Trump plans to speak remotely Thursday to an international audience of business leaders, politicians and other elites at the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos, Switzerland.

The Senate resolution echoes Trump’s references to the money the United States spent to build the canal at the beginning of the 20th century.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Panama during his first overseas trip in the post, a source told Reuters on Thursday, as President Donald Trump makes a push for the United States to take back the Panama Canal that has angered the Central American country.

They say they fought too hard to wrest it from the U.S. to now hand back the waterway, which is part of the nation’s identity.