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In this Oct. 24, 2013 photo, Mark Risinger, 16, checks his Facebook page on his computer as his mother, Amy Risinger, looks on at their home in Glenview, Ill. The recommendations are bound to prompt eye-rolling and LOLs from many teens but an influential pediatrician's group says unrestricted media use has been linked with violence, cyber-bullying, school woes, obesity, lack of sleep and a host of other problems. Mark’s mom said she agrees with restricting kids’ time on social media but that deciding on other media limits should be up to parents. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) **FILE**

Bill would give kids chance to erase online profile

Two prominent Democrats announced a new bill Monday to give kids a chance to erase any data internet companies collected on them before they turned 13, saying children deserve a chance to experiment online without having it follow them for their whole lives.

June 4, 2018
President Donald Trump poses at his desk in this Oval Office photo.

Donald Trump claims broad war powers in new DOJ memo

The Justice Department said President Trump can unilaterally commit the military whenever he claims vital U.S. interests are at stake, releasing a new legal briefing defending his decision to launch military strikes against Syria's chemical weapons capability in April.

June 1, 2018
Children detained at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility color and draw, part of the many activities as well as meals and clothing they are provided at taxpayer expense. (Associated Press)

illegal immigrant children cost taxpayers $670 a day

Illegal immigrant children set up in comfy dormitories, coloring with "multicultural crayons," watching their favorite soccer teams from back home on the extensive cable system, even kicking the ball around themselves on a beautiful new soccer field -- all paid for by taxpayers.

May 30, 2018
The Social Security Administration's main campus is seen in Woodlawn, Md., on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Social Security pays benefits to hundreds of dead people

Social Security just can't stop paying dead people. The massive public pensions system will pay millions this year to people it knows are dead -- in many cases, it even has death certificate numbers listed -- but officials can't seem to figure out how to stop outgoing benefit checks, according to a new inspector general's audit announced Wednesday.

May 30, 2018
In this Feb. 9, 2017, photo provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE agents stand outside a home in Atlanta during a targeted enforcement operation aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminals living in the country illegally. (Bryan Cox/ICE via AP) **FILE**

ICE sweep nabs 156 for deportation in Chicago

Federal officers arrested 156 illegal immigrants and other people eligible to be deported from around the Chicago area over a six-day period, Homeland Security announced Tuesday.

May 29, 2018
Two female detainees sleep in a holding cell, as the children are separated by age group and gender, as hundreds of mostly Central American immigrant children are being processed and held at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz., on June 18, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

White House says more detention would solve immigration

Administration officials delivered a vehement defense Tuesday of President Trump's attempts to blame Democrats for putting children at risk in the immigration process, saying the party's lawmakers in Washington are blocking the kinds of changes needed to stem the flow of children and families.

May 29, 2018
In this undated photo, migrant workers from Mexico on Johnson Farm in Luna County, N.M. (Roberto E. Rosales/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

DHS scolds Congress, approves 15,000 foreign workers

The Trump administration on Friday announced 15,000 additional visas for businesses to hire temporary help from foreign workers this summer, splitting the difference between "America first" advocates and business groups, who'd begged for nearly five times that number.

May 25, 2018
Tom Cat Bakery employees and their supporters rally against President Donald Trump's immigration policies outside Trump Tower in New York Saturday, April 8, 2017. Thirty-one of the bakery's employees will be fired and could be deported if they cannot prove by April 21, 2017 that they're working in the country legally. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DHS to cancel Obama-era foreign investor immigration program

The Trump administration moved Friday to officially revoke an Obama-era program designed to entice foreign entrepreneurs to move to the U.S. to invest their cash in businesses here, saying the previous administration overstepped its powers.

May 25, 2018
Julia Paley, of Arlington, Va., with the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network, holds up a sign that reads "DACA Don't Destroy Dreamers Dreams" during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside the White House, in Washington on Sept. 4, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

‘Dreamer’ petition nears success

The petition-drive to force a vote on granting citizenship rights to Dreamers is bordering on success after two more Republicans signed on Tuesday, leaving backers just shy of the threshold.

May 24, 2018
President Donald Trump's hair is ruffled by a breeze as he speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, en route to a day trip to New York. Trump will hold a roundtable discussion on Long Island on illegal immigration and gang violence that the White House is calling a "national call to action for legislative policy changes." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Donald Trump’s MS-13 ‘animals’ rhetoric overshadows border security push

The Trump administration says laws must be changed to stem the flow of MS-13 recruits from Central America -- some of them crossing specifically to join the gang and others being perfect targets for recruitment once they reach the U.S. But the policy questions have been overshadowed by President Trump's rhetoric.

May 23, 2018
In this May 16, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Donald Trump can’t block Twitter followers: Federal judge

President Trump cannot block people from his Twitter account, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the account became a public forum once he started using it for government business and is now protected by the First Amendment.

May 23, 2018