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The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Supreme Court allows Trump asylum rules enforcement

The Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for the Trump administration to deny asylum to migrants from other countries who traveled through Mexico before reaching the U.S., giving the administration a major win as it tries to stop the border surge.

September 11, 2019
In this July 30, 2019, photo, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington. More than 200 mayors, including the mayors of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, are urging Senate leaders to call senators back to the Capitol to act on bipartisan gun safety legislation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Chuck Schumer says guns, election security top Dem agenda

As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sees it, the fall agenda for Congress is more of the same -- speeding President Trump's nominees and working to keep the government open with a new round of spending bills.

September 5, 2019
United States Customs and Border Protection officers watch as a group of 14 people, who were found hiding in a 2004 Chevrolet Suburban SUV, unload from the car in the San Ysidro Port of Entry secondary inspection on Tuesday, June 13, 2006, in San Diego, California. (AP Photo/David Maung) ** FILE **

Migrant smuggling across Mexico border common and deadly

While sneaking illegal immigrants over fences or across rivers is the most common method, the deaths of the migrants highlight the more lucrative trade in bringing them straight through the country's front door undetected.

September 4, 2019
In this July 24, 2019, photo, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., listens as former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jerrold Nadler demands docs on alleged Trump pardons to DHS

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler demanded Wednesday that Homeland Security turn over any documents that would show President Trump attempted to offer pardons to officials willing to break to the law to carry out his immigration policies.

September 4, 2019
In this June 20, 2018 photo, immigrant children walk in a line outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, a former Job Corps site that now houses them in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

HHS shelters for migrant children dinged over background check failures

A majority of the government's facilities to house illegal immigrant children awaiting placement with families allowed employees to begin working before their full background checks were performed, an inspector general said in a report Wednesday, dinging the Health Department system for lapses.

September 4, 2019
In this Friday, April 5, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, Calif. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Donald Trump triggers Pentagon cuts to pay for border wall

President Trump informed Congress on Tuesday that he will trigger his emergency powers to divert $3.6 billion away from the Pentagon's facilities budget and instead use it to build more of his border wall, seeking to make as much progress as possible before next year's election.

September 3, 2019
In this Sept. 26, 2018, photo, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Johnny Isakson to resign at end of year

Sen. Johnny Isakson announced Wednesday he'll resign his seat at the end of this year, saying his health has deteriorated to the point where he no longer feels he's able to give his Georgia constituents the service they deserve.

August 28, 2019
In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

DHS to use disaster money for border security, deportations

The Department of Homeland Security has alerted Congress it will shift hundreds of millions of dollars to boost its ability to hold and quickly deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, drawing a rebuke from Democrats who said the money is being cut from critical needs such as disaster relief.

August 27, 2019
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., arrives for a House Democratic caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Jerrold Nadler prods court to force Don McGahn testimony

With the window on possible impeachment closing, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler asked a federal court Monday to speed up a decision on whether to force former top White House lawyer Don McGahn to have to testify.

August 26, 2019