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Eric Conn gestures as he invokes his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conn had help in carrying out the escape plot he hatched a year before fleeing, according to a federal indictment. The indictment, released Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, alleges that an employee of Conn, the missing lawyer, opened a bank account that Conn used to transfer money out of the country. It also claims that the employee, Curtis Lee Wyatt, tested security at the U.S-Mexico border at Conn's direction, and purchased a pickup truck for use in Conn's escape in early June. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Social Security fraud henchman nets 7-month sentence

Curtis Wyatt, who served as henchman and enforcer for the man who ran the largest Social Security fraud in U.S. history, was sentenced Friday to seven months in jail for part of his role in the scam.

June 29, 2018
Attorney General Jefferson Sessions' four new Justice Department grant solicitations will give preference to jurisdictions that are more open to immigration cooperation. (Associated Press/File)

Sanctuary cities pressured with Justice grant programs

The Justice Department broadened its effort to rein in sanctuary cities Thursday, announcing new conditions on four grant programs designed to pressure localities to provide information and access to federal immigration authorities.

June 28, 2018
First lady Melania Trump talks with Rodolfo Karisch, Chief Patrol Agent, Tucson Sector Border Patrol, as she visits a U.S. Customs border and protection facility in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Melania Trump shocked by smugglers’ cruelty during border visit

First lady Melania Trump, visiting Arizona to get another firsthand look at the immigration situation, was told that the government is doing all it can for the children and families streaming across the border, including rescuing them from danger and providing them top-notch care.

June 28, 2018
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy speaks to faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania law school, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Anthony Kennedy retirement ends tenure as nation’s decider-in-chief

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who announced his retirement Wednesday, has been the decider-in-chief on most of the major controversial cases to rise to the Supreme Court ever since 2006, which is when the court's balance shifted to him, after Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.

June 27, 2018
Sen. Chuck Schumer. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer: Don’t vote on new justice until next year

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised the country Wednesday that a new justice will be confirmed to the Supreme Court this fall, setting out an ambitious goal for himself to approve a key seat with the narrowest of majorities.

June 27, 2018
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., center, accompanied by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., D-Pa., right, speaks with reporters following a closed door policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Chuck Schumer shoots down calls to abolish ICE

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer shot down suggestions to abolish ICE, saying Wednesday that the government's top deportation agency does things that are "very much needed."

June 27, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican lawmakers in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Immigration judge accused of anti-GOP behavior

President Trump has been complaining over the last week about immigration judges -- and on Wednesday his complaints were bolstered by a federal watchdog who accused one judge of actively promoting Hillary Clinton during a 2016 deportation trial.

June 27, 2018