Sanctuary cities expanded in 2019, cutting into Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s potential deportations. But despite that headwind, the agency still managed to reach a five-year high for removals, breaking the previous high-water mark under President Trump.
There’s a campaign going on in Washington that even the most garrulous members of Congress aren’t eager to talk about: to be part of a team of uncertain size, with a risky mission, to be named by a leader who isn’t talking about what she’s looking for or when she’ll decide.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will not be leaning on any of the swing-district Democrats to back the articles of impeachment against President Trump during next week’s vote.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Democratic leadership was threatening to scuttle a longer-term spending agreement in favor of another stopgap measure.
The House has made much progress on impeachment — now only days away from a full floor vote — but the partisan battle lines haven’t moved an inch.
Republicans will not have a minority hearing day on impeachment, House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold L. Nadler ruled on Thursday.
The FBI’s four wiretap affidavits to a federal judge in 2016 and 2017 deliberately hid a part of Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page’s professional life that would have revealed his patriotic role as a CIA informant instead of the bureau’s nefarious depiction, the Justice Department inspector general’s report shows.
Scores of vulnerable House Democrats in swing districts find themselves stuck between a rock and hard place on the impeachment vote, at risk of alienating crucial supporters on every side of the political divide no matter how they vote.
Sen. Mike Crapo, Idaho Republican, blocked Tuesday an effort to fast-track a bipartisan bill meant to deter foreign governments from interfering in the U.S. electoral process.
Authorities in New Mexico are turning to firefighters, Native American leaders and rural irrigation associations to instill trust and promote participation in the 2020 census.
There's a campaign going on in Washington that even the most garrulous members of Congress aren't eager to talk about: to be part of a team of uncertain size, with a risky mission, to be named by a leader who isn't talking about what she's looking for or when she'll decide.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Wednesday laid out a set of immigration proposals that would reverse Trump administration policies and shuttle more taxpayer dollars toward Central American countries.
For most job candidates, time spent at Harvard University would be front-and-center on their resume. But as Sen. Elizabeth Warren stumps across the country seeking the presidency, her time as an Ivy League law professor is strikingly absent from the story she tells voters, replaced by her hard-scrabble Oklahoma roots, her three brothers' military service and the year she taught K-12 special education in the 1970s.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson say they want to make mass shootings less likely in the state by banning the sale of high-capacity gun magazines and assault weapons.
The Obama Justice Department and the FBI twice debated whether to give the Trump campaign a "defensive briefing" on Russia but decided not to, according to the department's inspector general report.
President Trump has agreed to an initial trade deal that requires China to purchase a large amount of U.S. farm products in exchange for tariff relief, placing him close to a second significant trade win amid the furor over his pending impeachment.
Seven of nine House Democrats from Pennsylvania now say they will support the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump that were under consideration in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Guatemala on Thursday received the first families of migrants sent by the United States under an agreement to return non-Guatemalans who passed through that country on their way to the U.S. border.
It was nighttime when Pedro Lucas came home, clutching receipts showing he had paid a funeral home to have the bodies of three immigrant laborers returned to Guatemala from Oregon.
The Trump administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a son of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega for his alleged role on money laundering and corruption.
The University of Southern Mississippi is awarding an honorary degree to civil rights activist Ellie Dahmer, who worked alongside her husband to register African American voters during some of the most violent years of segregation.
Federal agents executed search warrants at multiple branches of a Hispanic grocery chain in the Atlanta area and took three people into custody on Thursday, an official said.
