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President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump praises Florida for bill arming school faculty

President Trump on Thursday praised Florida's legislature for the gun bill it approved this week, and took credit for provisions that would allow some school staff to carry concealed weapons to be used to deter shootings.

March 8, 2018
Sen. Jeff Flake, left, R-Ariz., speaks during a field hearing in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Jeff Flake DACA bill gives ‘Dreamers’ Obamacare, CBO says

Sen. Jeff Flake's bill to enshrine the DACA program in law would also make the illegal immigrant "Dreamers" eligible for Obamacare -- including perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to buy health plans, Congressional scorekeepers said this week.

March 7, 2018
FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file photo, protesters hold up signs outside a courthouse where a federal judge was to hear arguments in the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from communities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities in San Francisco. California state lawmakers passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed nearly 900 new laws in 2017, most of which take effect Jan. 1, 2018. Among them is one making California a sanctuary state in response to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Sessions compares California sanctuary laws to slave-state nullification

Attorney General Jeff Sessions compared California's new sanctuary city laws to attempts by slave-holding southern states to nullify federal laws, and blasted California officials Wednesday for attempting to force a "radical open borders agenda" on the rest of the country.

March 7, 2018
U.S. Capitol Police use bolt cutters to break chains locking together supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, as the protesters cheer in support of DACA, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The protesters were participating in an act of civil disobedience after a march in support of DACA. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump DACA phaseout legal, judge rules

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Trump's phaseout of the Obama-era DACA program is legal, adding heft to the administration's defense but doing little to solve the ongoing court quagmire.

March 5, 2018
U,S. Capitol Police break chains locking together supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, who were participating in an act of civil disobedience in support of DACA recipients, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

‘Dreamers’ turn ire on Democrats as DACA deadline passes

Illegal immigrant Dreamers descended on Democrats' national headquarters in Washington on Monday, staging a sit-in and vowing to make sure the party gets at least some of the blame as Congress slipped past President Trump's March 5 deadline for action on DACA.

March 5, 2018
Protesters blocked the streets near Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court to support of clean bill to protect DACA recipients. (Associated Press/File)

DACA deadline passes with action in courts, not Congress

Monday was supposed to be the deadline either when illegal immigrant Dreamers began to lose their status under the Trump administration's phaseout of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, or when Congress would swoop to the rescue and grant them a path to full citizenship rights.

March 4, 2018
In this file photo, Court of Appeals of Maryland Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera (right) is shown questioning an attorney in a proceeding on March 1, 2018. (Associated Press photographs) **FILE**

Md. AG defends Hillary Clinton lawyers against bar complaint

Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh's office offered a new explanation Friday for why the state has refused to pursue a bar complaint against Hillary Clinton's lawyers over their role in deleting her emails: They changed the rules.

March 2, 2018
A demonstrator shouts slogans through a bullhorn outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, in San Francisco. A top immigration official said Wednesday that about 800 people living illegally in Northern California were able to avoid arrest because of a weekend warning that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf put on Twitter.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

ICE blames California sanctuary law for illegals’ arrests

Federal immigration authorities said California's new sanctuary law forced this week's sweep that netted 232 illegal immigrants in the Bay Area -- and set off a massive controversy after Oakland's mayor gave a public warning that may have helped hundreds of other migrants elude arrest.

March 2, 2018
FILE - In this May 13, 2016 file photo, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, speaks at a news conference in Oakland, Calif. A federal immigration official says about 800 people living in Northern California were able to avoid arrest because of a warning by Schaaf. Thomas Homan, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief, told "Fox and Friends" Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, that what Schaaf did was "no better than a gang lookout yelling 'police' when a police cruiser comes in the neighborhood." (AP Photo/Ben Margot, FIle)

Trump-California feud escalates to all-out warfare

Analysts said there was no comparison in recent memory for the sort of bad blood that's developed between President Trump and California's leaders, who have legislated, sued, tweeted and used just about every other tool at their disposal to try to stymie the administration.

February 28, 2018
Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the kinds of class-action lawsuits on behalf of immigrants that have become a key tool for anti-Trump immigrant rights activists. (Associated Press/File)

Supreme Court backs Donald Trump on illegal immigrant detention

Immigrants being held for deportation don't have an automatic right under the law to post bond and be set free, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a decision that could give the Trump administration more freedom to pursue stiff detention policies for illegal immigrants who show up at the border claiming asylum.

February 27, 2018