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In this June 27, 2012, file photo, Donald Trump stands on the 14th fairway during a pro-am round of the AT&T National golf tournament at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

President-elect Trump ditches press pool to play golf

President-elect Donald Trump went to play golf Saturday without taking the designated press "pool" of reporters assigned to follow him, sparking renewed fears over how he will treat the media once he's in the White House.

December 31, 2016
In this June 22, 2016, file photo, Border Patrol agent Eduardo Olmos walks near the secondary fence separating Tijuana, Mexico, background, and San Diego in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

DHS catches fewer illegals from inside U.S.

Agents are catching more illegal immigrants on the border -- a sign that illegal immigration is picking up yet again -- but nabbed fewer from within the interior of the U.S. over the last year, as President Obama made good on his vow to stop deporting all but the most serious of illegal immigrants, new statistics revealed Friday.

December 30, 2016
FILE - In this July 7, 2015 file photo, immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio, Texas. The vast majority of immigrant children who arrive alone at the U.S. border are placed by the government with adults who are in the country illegally, federal data reviewed by The Associated Press show. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Mayors push Obama for faster immigrant amnesty approvals

Illegal immigrants should get faster approvals of their temporary amnesty applications and the Obama administration in its final days should use its powers to grant even more stays of deportation for illegal immigrants from struggling countries, the mayors of the nation's biggest cities said in a letter Thursday to President Obama.

December 29, 2016
Senators voted 97-1 to override President Obama's veto, and the House held a similarly lopsided vote. That sparked an over-the-top reaction from the White House, which called it the "single most embarrassing thing" Congress had done in 30 years. (Associated Press)

Saudi 9/11 bill overcomes Obama’s veto, criticism as push for rethink fades

The November election result was painful, but President Obama's worst moment of the year may have come weeks earlier when Congress voted to override his veto of a bill opening the courtroom doors to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks who wanted to prove that the government of Saudi Arabia was implicated.

December 27, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin asks Donald Trump to help restore Russian-U.S. relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked to "restore the framework of bilateral cooperation" with the U.S. in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump — a note the transition team released Friday, the same day the Kremlin leader called American Democrats sore losers.

December 25, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Putin offers cooperation with Trump in Christmas letter

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked to "restore the framework of bilateral cooperation" with the U.S. in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump earlier this month -- which the transition team released Friday.

December 23, 2016
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg speaks to members of the media after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump presses Lockheed, Boeing on plane contracts

President-elect Donald Trump pressured two of the country's biggest aerospace companies to cut costs on their government contracts, winning a commitment from Boeing to lower the price tag on a new Air Force One but finding the going tougher with Lockheed Martin and the F-35 fighter jet.

December 21, 2016
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump predicts F-35 fighter-jet cost cuts will succeed

Donald Trump pressured the chief of one of the country's major defense contractors Wednesday to lower the price of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet, saying the massive project has ballooned well beyond what it should cost.

December 21, 2016
In this Thursday, May 7, 2015 photo, volunteer Sandy Lockhart, standing, serves lunch to John Pearson, right, as Dorothy Christian, left, and her husband, Fredrick, look on at a seniors meal program at the Rush Park Community Center in Citrus Heights, Calif. The program, run by the Meals on Wheels by ACC, provides free meals to senior citizens at the center and brings them meals at their homes. Meals on Wheels is among the programs that have received funds from the state Assembly's own administrative budget for programs that faced cuts in state and other funding. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Seniors deep in college debt defaults

More than 6 million Americans over age 50 still carry student loan debt, and about a third of them are in default, according to a new government study Tuesday that warned the government is even docking the Social Security checks of tens of thousands of senior citizens to make them pay off what they owe.

December 20, 2016
FILE - In this July 3, 2015, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, and her personal aide Huma Abedin approach a window to buy ice cream at Dairy Twirl in Lebanon, N.H. The State Department has agreed to review 29,000 pages of emails from Abedin from their days at the State Department for possible public release under a new legal agreement with a conservative legal group. But many of the emails from Abedin would not be publicly released until six months after the election. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, file)

Judge orders release of FBI search warrant into Huma Abedin emails

A federal judge on Monday ordered the administration to release the search warrant that the FBI used to probe Huma Abedin's emails in the waning days of the presidential election -- a move that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's team is blaming for her loss.

December 19, 2016