The Latest: Trump’s intelligence director pick withdraws

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s pick for national intelligence director (all times local):
7:50 p.m.
President Donald Trump’s pick for national intelligence director, Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, has withdrawn from consideration after just five days of growing questions about his experience and qualifications.
Democrats had openly dismissed the Republican congressman as an unqualified partisan and Republicans offered only lukewarm and tentative expression