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The Saudi Ambassador Is Back in D.C. Will Anyone Talk to Him?

At least one senator calls for Prince Khalid’s expulsion over Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Source: Aaron Bernstein / Reuters

Updated at 3:56 p.m.

The Saudi ambassador to the United States may have quietly returned to Washington, but he’s going to have some trouble getting meetings on Capitol Hill.

Prince Khalid bin Salman’s return Wednesday came a little more than a month after he left the U.S. capital following the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a murder many senators have

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