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U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. presidential election event, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

Feds pay billions to fraudsters tied to China and Russia in COVID-19 schemes

As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Uncle Sam was doing more than putting money in unemployed Americans' pockets -- the federal government was also shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas to fraudsters working with the country's most prominent adversaries, such as China and Russia.

November 29, 2021
In this June 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AOC pleads with Senate to rescue immigration amnesty in Biden budget bill

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dozens of her fellow Democrats, who just voted for a bill that falls well short of citizenship rights for illegal immigrants, are now pleading with their Senate colleagues to give them a mulligan and add a path to citizenship back into the legislation.

November 23, 2021
Supporters of immigration reform march while asking for a path to citizenship and an end to detentions and deportations, April 28, 2021, in Washington. Biden took office on Jan. 20 and almost immediately, numbers of migrants exceeded expectations. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Deportation orders from immigration judges plummet under Biden

The Biden administration's more lenient approach to illegal immigration is now showing up in the nation's immigration courts, where over the final three months of the last fiscal year, judges issued deportation directives in less than a third of cases.

November 21, 2021
A sign marks one of the entrances of the U.S. Army base Fort Lee Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, in Petersburg, Va. Afghan refugees who have been prescreened by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been taken to Fort Lee and other temporary reception centers are being set up at Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort McCoy in western Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Feds shut down first U.S. camp used for Afghan evacuees

The final Afghan evacuees who'd been housed at Fort Lee, the first evacuee camp set up on U.S. soil, have now been processed and resettled in the country, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

November 17, 2021
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DHS chief Mayorkas: ‘I give myself an A for effort’

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas graded himself with an "A for effort" on Tuesday, telling senators he believes the Biden administration is on the right track to solve the border's chaos and to make up for what he called cruel Trump policies.

November 16, 2021
In this March 30, 2021, file photo, minors are shown inside a pod at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in Donna, Texas. President Biden said migrants separated at the southern border during the Trump administration deserve compensation, but it likely won’t be $450,000. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool) ** FILE **

Feds ponder how much to pay illegal immigrants in compensation

As the Biden administration considers cutting $450,000 checks to compensate illegal immigrants who suffered emotional trauma from the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy, figuring out exactly the right comparison with previous government payouts -- such as those made to Japanese Americans -- is fraught with complications.

November 10, 2021
This May 4, 2021, photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

New fiscal year begins with lower federal deficit

The new federal fiscal year has begun with some good -- or at least less bad -- news, as Uncle Sam ran a smaller deficit in October than a year ago, according to a new estimate Monday by the Congressional Budget Office.

November 8, 2021