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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (Tom Williams/Pool Image via AP)

Brett Kavanaugh filibuster vote set for Friday

The FBI was sending its new background check into Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Senate late Wednesday, and Republicans moved quickly to set up a first floor test, a vote to end a Democratic filibuster, for Friday.

October 3, 2018
FILE - In this March 12, 2018 file photo, supporters of temporary protected status of immigrants cheer, hold signs and a banner with the outline of El Salvador at a rally at a federal courthouse in San Francisco, the day a lawsuit was filed against the Trump administration over its decision to end a program that lets immigrants live and work legally in the United States. During a hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen questioned the Trump administration's motives to end the program and repeated the president's vulgar language to describe some countries during a White House meeting in January. Chen is deciding whether to block the administration's decision to end temporary protected status for people from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and El Salvador. He did not immediately rule. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge Edward Chen blocks U.S. from ending temporary protected status for immigrants from 4 countries

A federal judge blocked the administration's attempt to cancel legal status for migrants from four countries, ruling Wednesday that President Trump poisoned the decision-making by calling them "s--hole" countries. The ruling means hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Sudan, who were going to be forced to return to their home countries, can remain in the U.S. under special humanitarian protections.

October 3, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Christine Blasey Ford will only give documents to FBI

Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers said Wednesday that they won't give senators documents related to her sexual assault claim against Brett Kavanaugh, but will provide them to the FBI -- if agents want to interview her about her allegation.

October 3, 2018
In this Sunday, June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States rest in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. Immigrant children described hunger, cold and fear in a voluminous court filing about the facilities where they were held in the days after crossing the border. Advocates fanned out across the southwest to interview more than 200 immigrant parents and children about conditions in U.S. holding facilities, detention centers and a youth shelter. The accounts form part of a case over whether the government is complying with a longstanding settlement over the treatment of immigrant youth in custody. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP) **FILE**

Nooses found at ICE detention facility

Migrants being detained at an ICE facility in California regularly hang bed sheet "nooses" in their cells, violating detention rules and risking their own safety, the Homeland Security inspector general said in a report released Tuesday.

October 2, 2018
In this June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)

Inspector general says DHS misled over family separations

The Trump administration appears to have misled the country when it claimed it had created a "central database" to reunify illegal immigrant children separated from their families during the "zero tolerance" policy earlier this year, Homeland Security's inspector general says in a new report.

October 2, 2018
President Donald Trump gestures while answering questions from members of the media about Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Dems take cautious approach to Trump trade deal

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer sounded a cautiously positive note Monday about the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, saying President Trump "deserves praise" for trying to improve upon the old NAFTA.

October 1, 2018