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In this March 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Judge dismisses class-action challenge to travel ban

A federal judge in Washington who had been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration reversed course Tuesday and ruled she could not force the State Department to grant visa lottery approvals to would-be immigrants from Iran and Yemen.

March 28, 2018
President Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, to travel to Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, in Hawaii. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Orange County, California, leaders vote to join Trump sanctuary lawsuit

Resistance to California's new sanctuary city laws grew this week as Orange County voted to join a federal lawsuit trying to block the laws, and the county's sheriff said he will post information on every inmate's release so the Homeland Security Department can see if there is anyone it wants to deport.

March 27, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One, Sunday, March 25, 2018, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to Washington as he returns from Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump cancels special amnesty for Liberians

President Trump on Tuesday ordered the end of another special immigration program that had allowed illegal immigrants from Liberia to remain in the U.S., giving them a one-year grace period to make final preparations and leave the country.

March 27, 2018
Amina Olow, a refugee from Somalia, looks at photos of two of her eldest daughters while siting with two of her other children in her Columbus, Ohio, home on Friday, Feb. 23, 2018. The girls, Neemotallah, now 13, and Nastexo, now 10, live in Kenya with other family members. It has been 10 years since their mother has seen them. "I never thought it would be this long," Olow says of her separation from her daughters, who she hopes can join her despite the fact that Somalia is on a list of countries impacted by the Trump administration travel ban. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)

Donald Trump on pace for record low number of refugees

The Trump administration has resettled slightly more than 10,000 refugees as it nears the midpoint of the fiscal year, putting it on pace for by far the lowest total since the modern system was established nearly four decades ago.

March 26, 2018
Craigslist, the granddaddy of internet classifieds, said it wasn't taking any chances with its adult services section. (Associated Press/File)

Sex trafficking bill shuts down online communities

President Trump hasn't even put his signature to the bill Congress approved last week to fight sex trafficking, but its bite is already being felt in the online communities it was aimed at, with Craigslist and other major forums nixing their "personals" sections where people trolled for relationships, sex and other connections.

March 25, 2018
In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from air from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Trump reinstates broad ban on transgender troops

President Trump moved late Friday to exclude most transgender people from signing up for the U.S. military, after his defense and homeland security chiefs said they were worried about the armed forces' ability to handle the different challenges the troops would bring.

March 23, 2018
President Donald Trump answers questions as he leaves the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 23, 2018, after speaking about the $1.3 trillion spending bill. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump to Hispanics: ‘Republicans are on your side’

President Trump told Hispanic voters Friday that he and his party are "on your side" and complained that Democrats were the roadblock to granting illegal immigrant "Dreamers" a more permanent protection here in the U.S.

March 23, 2018
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., leaves a news conference with Republican leaders, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Congress passes $1.3 trillion spending bill

The House approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill Thursday to fund the government for the rest of fiscal year 2018 and the Senate followed suit early Friday morning, beating the shutdown deadline and leaving Republicans and Democrats to fight over credit and blame.

March 22, 2018
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., listen to the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Steny Hoyer: ‘I have not read the bill’

Anger over the $1.3 trillion spending bill boiled over on the House floor Thursday with lawmakers admitting they had no chance to read the 2,232-page bill they're being asked to accept.

March 22, 2018
In this Dec. 15, 2010, file photo an American flag flutters in the wind on a nearby resident's home near a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle near where agent Brian Terry was killed, northwest of Nogales, Ariz. (Greg Bryan /Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Border Patrol agents want technology, not wall: Dem study

Border Patrol leaders and line agents say publicly that more fencing will help them control the U.S.-Mexico line -- but a new Democratic report Thursday says what they're really asking for behind closed doors is more personnel and technology.

March 22, 2018