Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Democrats Thursday against doing away with the filibuster, saying they may not be happy with the unintended consequences. Published August 22, 2019
President Trump said the goal is to change the thinking: If illegal immigrants are detained, then they can be deported. Once others see the deportations, they will think twice about making the dangerous trip. Published August 21, 2019
President Trump on Wednesday renewed his threat to cut off automatic birthright citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant mothers. Published August 21, 2019
Border Patrol agents arrested 330,000 people in 2017 but only took DNA samples from fewer than 100 of them, breaking a federal law and allowing serious criminals to go free, a government watchdog reported Wednesday. Published August 21, 2019
President Trump's fondness for tariffs will take a small but very real bite out of the U.S. economy, the government's chief scorekeeper said Wednesday. Published August 21, 2019
The budget deal President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struck last month will cost taxpayers $1.7 trillion over the next decade, the government's chief scorekeeper said Wednesday, adding to a sea of red that threatens to swamp Washington. Published August 21, 2019
President Trump will move Wednesday to cancel the family "loophole" that's allowed illegal-immigrant parents and children to pour into the U.S., proposing new rules that would replace the 2015 Flores Settlement court order that created a de facto catch-and-release policy for the families. Published August 20, 2019
President Trump on Tuesday called one Muslim congresswoman "violent and vicious" and said Jewish voters show "great disloyalty" to their cause by backing Democrats. Published August 20, 2019
Facebook's special investigator tasked with reviewing conservative bias said Tuesday that the social media giant may never be able to do enough to assuage those on the right who feel the platform is stacked against them. Published August 20, 2019
Federal authorities have arrested a Maryland man accused of praising Adolf Hitler and President Trump, vowing a "genocide" of Hispanics -- and specifically promising to rape and kill one person from Spain. Published August 20, 2019
Former Sen. Harry Reid says Democratic presidential candidates' focus on a "Medicare for All" health policy is a loser for the 2020 election -- and so is the push to cancel criminal penalties for illegal immigrants who jump the border. Published August 20, 2019
DACA's seventh anniversary has sparked a new round of introspection, with immigrant rights advocates saying the program has proved its worth by helping give opportunity to a generation of children who have become doctors, soldiers, lawyers and teachers. But the program does have a darker side. Published August 19, 2019
New York Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill on Monday fired the white officer who used a lethal chokehold on unarmed Eric Garner five years ago, an incident that drew national attention amid the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Published August 19, 2019
Americans are deeply split on whether disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered or committed suicide -- and even most those who say he hanged himself in his jail cell say it happened because authorities turned a blind eye. Published August 19, 2019
Declaring the criminal justice system ruined by pervasive racism and "corporate profiteering," Sen. Bernard Sanders proposed a massive overhaul Sunday that would free many drug convicts, abolish the death penalty and solitary confinement, and promote an unarmed "civilian corps" to replace the police for lower-level calls. Published August 18, 2019
Newly released video captures the moment when police confronted the man who attacked an ICE facility last month with a gun and incendiary devices, including the shots from local police that killed the attacker -- and perhaps prevented a larger loss of life. Published August 16, 2019
Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday that this month's shooting rampage in El Paso was "racist domestic terrorism," and said he would back legislation to try to prevent similar attacks in the future. Published August 15, 2019
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler issued subpoenas Thursday for Trump associates Rick Dearborn and Corey Leandowski -- just hours before President Trump is expected to see Mr. Lewandowski at a rally in New Hampshire. Published August 15, 2019
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Georgia's electronic voting system is defective, vulnerable to a foreign government's hacking, and cannot be used in the 2020 elections. Published August 15, 2019
Authorities in Texas busted a massive illegal immigrant stash house last week, rescuing 73 migrants from smugglers who allegedly kicked them, used a stun gun on them and carried a pistol to "terrorize" them. Published August 15, 2019
