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Father Cameron Faller, of Restorative Justice Ministry, answers questions before a vigil for Kathryn Steinle, Monday, July 6, 2015, on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Steinle was shot and killed on Wednesday, July 1st on Pier 14. Francisco Sanchez was arrested for the shooting. (AP Photo/Beck Diefenbach)

Obama vows to veto sanctuary city crackdown

The White House on Tuesday vowed to veto a bill designed to prevent sanctuary city deaths like the July killing of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco, saying the solution is to legalize illegal immigrants, not to force cities and counties to cooperate in deporting them.

October 20, 2015
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen (Associated Press) **FILE**

IRS vows to cut ID fraud in 2016 filing season

Stung by an embarrassing cyber fraud operation this year, the IRS vowed Tuesday to cut down on tax refund identity theft in 2016 with a series of new checks designed to weed out increasing sophisticated crimes.

October 20, 2015
Sen. Chuck Grassley (Associated Press/File) ** FILE **

Sanctuary cities data scarce, contested ahead of key Senate vote

Kathryn Steinle's death in San Francisco in July has done little to break a years-old stalemate over sanctuary cities, which continue to operate under a haze of complex federal rules, competing court decisions and tricky political recriminations -- but without very much data on either side of the debate.

October 19, 2015
FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2013 file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. The State Department agreed Thursday to review thousands of messages from a private email account that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton used for official government business, but it cautioned that the process will move slowly and perhaps take months. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Democrats back up Clinton ahead of Benghazi testimony

Democrats ramped up efforts Monday to tarnish the Benghazi investigation as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares for a momentous public hearing before the panel Thursday, insisting that she will cooperate despite a firm belief that the investigators have little more than her political destruction on their minds.

October 19, 2015
In this Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 photo in Sullivan City, Texas, a woman who is in the country illegally shows the footprints of her daughter who was born in the United States but was denied a birth certificate. Lawyers for immigrant families denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children by Texas health officials who refuse to recognize as valid certain forms of identification will argue for a federal judge to intervene against the state. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas can refuse to issue birth certificates to illegals’ parents: court

Texas officials may continue to refuse to issue birth certificates to illegal immigrant parents who aren't able to show valid identification, a federal court ruled Friday, dealing a major blow to Mexican advocates who'd said the policy was in effect stripping them of citizenship.

October 16, 2015
Secretary Jeh Johnson of the Department of Homeland Security. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

DHS opens door to more foreign tech workers

Foreign students in science and technology fields would be able to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years after they get their degrees under a program the Obama administration proposed expanding on Friday, saying the country needs to find a way to keep those students-turned-workers here.

October 16, 2015
Vice President Joe Biden waves to the crowd after he speaks, during Human Rights Campaign National Dinner at Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Appetite for Joe Biden bid wanes after Democrats’ debate

The appetite for Vice President Joseph R. Biden to join the Democratic presidential field is low after this week's first debate, according to a new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll released Friday that found only about a third of New Hampshire primary voters want to see him take the plunge.

October 16, 2015
President Barack Obama gives remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit at the Mandalay Bay Resort Convention Center, Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, in Las Vegas. The President used the speech to announce a set of executive actions and private sector commitments to accelerate America’s transition to cleaner sources of energy and ways to cut energy waste. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Federal spending soars in 2015; taxes rise faster

After several years of GOP-imposed constraints the federal government opened the spending floodgates again in 2015, setting a new record with outlays of $3.688 trillion in the just-ended fiscal year.

October 15, 2015
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 17, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Feds to hit debt ceiling Nov. 3

The Obama administration will now hit the government's borrowing limit Nov. 3, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said in a letter Thursday that gives Congress less than three weeks to approve more red ink.

October 15, 2015
In this June 20, 2014, file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants entered the country through an area referred to as zone nine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Illegal immigrant children refusing to show up for deportation: report

Most of the surge of children caught jumping the U.S.-Mexico border illegally over the past two years haven't even had their cases decided by the immigration courts, leaving them in a legal limbo as states and counties struggle to assimilate them into schools and health care systems, according to a report released Thursday.

October 15, 2015
Glen Mead operates a line drill machine at a rock quarry, in Montrose, Pa., in this Oct. 9, 2015, file photo. Mead spent his life working as a dairy farmer and at age 60, began working with Rock Ridge Stone in Montrose, to make ends meet. For just the third time in 40 years, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect no increase in benefits next year, unwelcome news for more than one-fifth of the nation's population. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

Feds say no raise for Social Security beneficiaries

Social Security recipients won't get a taxpayer-funded raise in 2016 after a still-sluggish economy and a drop in the price index showed seniors' costs haven't risen over the last year, the government reported Thursday.

October 15, 2015
Donald Trump. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders is a communist

Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that up to 20 percent of reporters go out of their way to distort the truth about him, as he launched a wide-ranging critique of his fellow GOP presidential candidates, the press, Democrats' debate and his own campaign spending.

October 14, 2015
Democratic presidential candidates from left, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats divide deeply over guns in debate

Gun control quickly divided the candidates in the kick-off Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, with two of them saying the party needs to respect the voices and wishes of Americans, particularly in rural areas, who believe guns are a critical right.

October 13, 2015