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President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, as he returns from Bedminster, N.J. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Judge Jeffrey White halts Trump guest workers ban during pandemic

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump likely overstepped his powers when he tried to ban most foreign guest-workers from entering the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic, and ordered the administration to start issuing visas again.

October 1, 2020
In this file photo, a female protester is loaded into a van after being arrested while rallying at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020, in Portland, Ore. A Harvard poll released Oct. 1 suggests Americans are open to President Trump's law-and-order campaign message. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner)

Harvard poll finds Americans receptive to law-and-order message

Voters want to see immigrants with criminal records deported, want to see rioters and looters arrested and prosecuted, and want to see stiffer border security, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll that suggests there's ample room for President Trump to sell his law-and-order message -- if he can break through questions about his character.

October 1, 2020
In this Jan 28, 2020, photo, demonstrators listen to speakers during a rally outside the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. President Trump appears to be ignoring a deadline to establish how many refugees will be allowed into the United States in 2021, raising uncertainty about the future of the 40-year-old resettlement program. The 1980 Refugee Act requires presidents to issue their determination before Oct. 1, 2020, the start of the fiscal year. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Trump cuts refugees to record low

The administration has set a cap of admitting no more than 15,000 refugees in fiscal 2021, marking the lowest number on record and completing President Trump's goal of restructuring the modern refugee system.

October 1, 2020
Harris County election clerk Jose Mendoza watches over voting booths, Monday, June 29, 2020, in Houston. Early voting for the Texas primary runoffs began Monday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Harris County wins challenge on citizenship checks on new voters

A Texas court rejected a conservative group's demand that Harris County automatically reject, or at least investigate, voter registration forms submitted by people who say they aren't U.S. citizens, delivering a win to the county registrar Wednesday.

September 30, 2020
A protester carries a Proud Boys banner, a right-wing group, while other members start to unfurl a large U.S. flag in front of the Oregon State Capitol in Salem, Ore., Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. President Trump on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 didn’t condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a “left-wing” problem and telling one far-right extremist group to “stand back and stand by.” (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

James Comey says Trump emboldened White supremacists

Former FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that President Trump is "spraying gasoline" on the fire of White supremacy with his comments in this week's debate, and called on him to correct himself if he didn't mean to.

September 30, 2020
In this June 28, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

James Comey suggests Russians have dirt on Donald Trump

Former FBI Director James B. Comey unloaded on President Trump on Wednesday, suggesting the Russians must have compromising information on him and warning voters that Moscow wants Mr. Trump to win the election.

September 30, 2020
President Donald Trump wraps up his speech at a campaign rally at Fayetteville Regional Airport, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, in Fayetteville, N.C. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Donald Trump still king of the ‘poorly educated’

President Trump famously declared that he loved the "poorly educated," during the 2016 campaign, as voters with lower levels of schooling delivered an overwhelming share of their votes to him.

September 29, 2020
Police move in to Piedmont Park to prevent protesters from toppling a Confederate monument with a chain after they spray-painted it, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, in Atlanta. The peace monument at the 14th Street entrance depicts a angel of peace stilling the hand of a Confederate soldier about to fire his rifle. Protesters decrying hatred and racism converged around the country on Sunday, saying they felt compelled to counteract the white supremacist rally that spiraled into deadly violence in Virginia. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

FBI warned of white supremacist ‘infiltration’ of police

The FBI in 2006 saw danger of white supremacist "infiltration" of American policing, including law enforcement officers who leaked information to groups with which they sympathized, according to a formerly secret document a Democratic congressman released Tuesday.

September 29, 2020
In this Oct. 22, 2018, photo U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surround and detain a person during a raid in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Prince William County sanctuary policy draws ICE ire

The head of ICE blasted Prince William County in Virginia on Monday over a new policy that bans the jail from reporting people arrested on misdemeanor charges to federal deportation officers.

September 28, 2020
Workers prepare absentee ballots for mailing at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. North Carolina is scheduled to begin sending out more than 600,000 requested absentee ballots to voters on Friday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Trump team sues to stop North Carolina mail ballot changes

The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit over the weekend challenging North Carolina's new lenient vote-by-mail procedures, arguing the changes written by the Board of Elections open the door to fraud and violate the state's own laws.

September 28, 2020
Protesters demanding the end of police violence against Black people take cover from smoke during a demonstration in Portland, Ore., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. Protesters in Portland hurled Molotov cocktails at officers in Oregon's largest city during a demonstration over a Kentucky grand jury's decision to not indict officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, police said Thursday. (Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP)

Portland braces for weekend of clashes as violence continues

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown triggered special powers Friday to surge officers into Portland and put state police in charge of safety this weekend amid fears of more clashes when demonstrators from across the ideological spectrum gather for protests.

September 25, 2020