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Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a tour at the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Plymouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Donald Trump losing to Joe Biden in Texas

Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph R. Biden leads President Trump in the Republican bastion of Texas, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday.

June 5, 2019
In this May 1, 2019, photo, Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

DOJ willing to turn over documents if House stops contempt vote

The Justice Department said Tuesday it is ready to restart negotiations with House Democrats to provide documents investigators are seeking in their do-over of the special counsel's Russia investigation, but only if the House calls off its scheduled contempt vote.

June 4, 2019
In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows foreign nationals being arrested this week 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 **

Dems move to cut Border Patrol, ICE in 2020 spending bill

Instead of giving President Trump the money he wants to solve the border crisis, Democrats on Tuesday said they plan to go the other direction and cut from the border agency and to severely limit ICE's ability to deport illegal immigrants.

June 4, 2019
In this Feb. 9, 2018, photo, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks appears in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson defy subpoenas

The White House has told Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson, two top former presidential advisors, not to turn over documents Congressional Democrats have subpoenaed, saying President Trump needs to have a chance to look over the materials and see if any of them should be protected by executive privilege.

June 4, 2019
President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May at the Foreign Office, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in central London. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump says Mexican tariffs will take effect

Republicans and Democrats warned President Trump on Tuesday to quickly strike a border deal with Mexico and drop his threat of economically crippling tariffs, saying otherwise he faces an embarrassing vote to override his move in Congress.

June 4, 2019
This March 2, 2019, file photo, shows a Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona. Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress. The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Tucson, with the 36-year-old Warren charged with harboring migrants and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men found with him who were in the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

2 illegal immigrants die after breaching border

Two illegal immigrants died at the border in less than 24 hours this week, in both cases succumbing just minutes after they breached the border, officials said Monday, detailing a rapidly expanding death toll from the migrant surge.

June 3, 2019