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Protesters of President Trump's immigration policies defend San Francisco's sanctuary status. (Associated Press/File)

DHS suspends sanctuary city list after just three weeks

The Homeland Security Department suspended its sanctuary city report after just three weeks, with officials acknowledging Tuesday that they had goofed on some of the data and needed more time to refine the process of figuring out who ends up on the name-and-shame list.

April 11, 2017
Eric C. Conn used these law offices in Stanville, Kentucky, to commit one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history. (Associated Press/File)

Eric Conn pleads guilty to Social Security disability fraud

A ringleader in one of the biggest Social Security disability fraud cases in U.S. history has pleaded guilty to filing more than 1,700 bogus applications, bilking the government out of potentially a half-billion dollars.

April 10, 2017
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is among a small but vocal group of lawmakers who say President Trump's missile strikes were illegal and insisted that any military action against a government that hasn't attacked the U.S. must get congressional approval first. (Associated Press)

Rand Paul urges AUMF before Trump military action

Sen. Rand Paul sounded one of the more discordant notes last week after President Trump's retaliatory missile strike against the Syrian regime, suggesting it was ill-advised and illegal, and insisting Congress needs to get involved.

April 9, 2017
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a tomahawk land attack missile in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, April 7, 2017. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

MoveOn.org blasts Trump Syria strike, raises money off horror

Liberal pressure group MoveOn.org blasted President Trump's decision Thursday to launch a strike to punish Syria for using chemical weapons against its people, saying it was illegal - and begged supporters to send in cash because of it.

April 6, 2017
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer

Charles Schumer fights for Supreme Court ideology

He may have lost the battle over Judge Neil Gorsuch, but Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer appears to have won a bigger fight: making ideology the focus of Supreme Court nominations.

April 6, 2017
In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile Friday, April 7, 2017, from the Mediterranean Sea. The United States blasted a Syrian air base with a barrage of cruise missiles in fiery retaliation for this week's gruesome chemical weapons attack against civilians. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. launches missile strike on a Syrian military airfield

American warships stationed off the Syrian coastline fired a salvo of cruise missiles against a Syrian military base in the western part of the country, days after a regime chemical strike left nearly 100 civilians wounded or dead.

April 6, 2017
FILE - In this March 21, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch explains mutton busting, an event held at rodeos similar to bull riding or bronc riding, in which children ride or race sheep, as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A Senate showdown is at hand over President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and it could change the Senate and the court for years to come. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Democrats officialy vote to filibuster Gorsuch; ‘nuclear’ vote looms

Democrats voted Thursday morning to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch, igniting a series of votes that will end later in the day with Republicans triggering the "nuclear option," breaking the filibuster by changing the rules, and setting up a final vote Friday to confirm President Trump's first Supreme Court nominee.

April 6, 2017
Sen. Jeff Merkley, Oregon Democrat, called the "nuclear option" a victory for democracy four years ago. Now, with his party in the minority, he is fighting to save the Senate power of the filibuster. (Associated Press)

‘Nuclear option’ views opposite for senators after 4 years

When Sen. Jeff Merkley arrived in Congress in 2009, one of his first crusades was to curtail the power of the filibuster, which he thought was halting much of Democrats' wish list under President Obama. Fast-forward to this year and Mr. Merkley is again on a crusade -- this time to save the filibuster from Republicans, who are looking to finish what Democrats started and eviscerate the 60-vote blockade of Supreme Court nominees.

April 5, 2017
Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth, Texas, made headlines in 2012 by challenging President Obama on the H-1B visa issue. She said her husband, a semiconductor engineer, couldn’t find work. (Associated Press/File)

Trump administration warns firms to hire Americans over foreigners

The Justice and Homeland Security departments issued startling warnings Monday to companies applying for the country's most prominent foreign guest-worker program, telling executives to look for Americans to fill those jobs first and promising more investigations and prosecutions of businesses that abuse the system.

April 3, 2017
An U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent peers out of the open door of a helicopter during a patrol flight over McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)

Border Patrol pleads for night helicopters

The Homeland Security Department has been reluctant to send helicopters on nighttime missions to aid the Border Patrol, leaving agents to face drug smugglers and illegal immigrants without critical air cover, the chief of the agents' labor union told Congress late last month.

April 2, 2017