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The Latest on consideration by the Senate of measures aimed at reducing gun violence (all times local):
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About 175 people in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers rested up Thursday ahead of the final leg of their monthlong journey to seek asylum in the United States, with the Trump administration warning they could be prosecuted, detained and quickly deported.
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Republican Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard says he has not yet decided whether to withhold bills from Gov. Eric Greitens while the governor faces two felony charges and an investigation by a special House committee that could lead to his impeachment.
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Twenty Republican-led states are seeking to temporarily invalidate former President Barack Obama's health care law while their larger lawsuit against it proceeds.
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The Senate has approved another bump-stock ban.
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The Louisiana Senate has backed a proposal that opens the door to school employees praying with their students during the class day.
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South Dakota ballot question advocates lack the resources to run an expensive campaign to block a new state law they contend will make it harder to put voter initiatives on the ballot, a key activist said Thursday.
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An undisclosed amount of material will remain under wraps because President Trump said the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is "of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."
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A Democratic senator pushed Thursday for a full vote on two measures Thursday to toughen Minnesota's gun laws.
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The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey on Thursday for repeatedly accepting gifts of significant value, failing to report them and for advancing the personal and business interests of a donor.
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A Los Angeles Police Department officer has been charged with attempting to transport two people in the country illegally through an immigration checkpoint in Southern California.
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A Minnesota lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct apologized Thursday while disputing some of the allegations made by a woman who says he touched her without her consent. Emily Schlecht, a 23-year-old who works at a sexual violence center and who has talked publicly about her own sexual assault in 2015, accused state Rep. Rod Hamilton of making unwanted advances.
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Louisianans with concealed carry permits would be allowed to bring guns into schools under a proposal headed to the House of Representatives.
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A Minnesota lawmaker accused of sexual misconduct apologized Thursday while disputing some of the allegations made by a woman who says he touched her without her consent.
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The Trump administration will end special protections for an estimated 9,000 Nepalese immigrants living in the United States, giving them until June 24, 2019, to leave or find another way to stay in the country, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.
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