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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2015, file photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks during an interview with The Associated about the CIA torture report, in her Capitol Hill office in Washington. Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity. The Senate Intelligence Committee has included the requirement in a broader intelligence bill. The House didn’t include a similar provision in its bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Feinstein defends Hillary Clinton on classified emails

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, rose to the defense of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying Thursday there is no evidence she herself sent classified information and that the emails now under scrutiny were not marked classified at the time she sent them.

August 13, 2015
The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen here on March 22, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

IRS cuts cyber-hack victims a break

At least some good news for the millions who have had their personal information stolen in cyberattacks -- the IRS said Thursday that the free credit monitoring the government and companies are offering victims doesn't count as taxable income.

August 13, 2015
President Obama speaks Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama amnesty chaotic, but no intent to flout judge, IG audit says

Immigration officials didn't intend to flout a federal judge when they broke his order halting President Obama's new amnesty, but the agency's process is so gummed up that it doesn't even know how many erroneous three-year amnesties it issued, an inspector general said in a new report Thursday.

August 13, 2015
People kayak in the Animas River near Durango, Colo., on Aug. 6, 2015, in water colored from a mine waste spill. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that a cleanup team was working with heavy equipment Wednesday to secure an entrance to the Gold King Mine. Workers instead released an estimated 1 million gallons of mine waste into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River. (Jerry McBride/The Durango Herald via Associated Press)

Indians say EPA trying to swindle them in mine spill

The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency's Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration's public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.

August 12, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a roundtable discussion on home care in Los Angeles on Aug. 6, 2015. (Associated Press)

Bobby Jindal: Hillary Clinton is one email away from jail

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said top Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton is just a single email away from serving prison time, saying now that she's asserted she's turned over all of her emails, any breach would mean she's lied in court proceedings.

August 11, 2015
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with the media in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Federal judge ‘hated’ me, out to get me

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has petitioned to have the federal judge who is investigating him kicked off the case, telling an appeals court that Judge G. Murray Snow's wife admitted to friends that her husband was intent on destroying the Arizona lawman.

August 11, 2015
In a court filing last week, Border Patrol Deputy Chief Ronald Vitiello said the agency saw a rise in illegal immigrant families crossing into the U.S. in July, which was surprising as it breaks the usual pattern, in which a decrease occurs as the late-summer heat makes that time of year more difficult for an immigrant's journey. (Associated Press)

Immigration campaign tells Central Americans not to jump border

The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up a new campaign to try to persuade Central American families not to make the perilous journey to jump the U.S. border, as new statistics suggest that last summer's surge could be happening again.

August 9, 2015
Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally wait at a bus station after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio, in this Tuesday, July 7, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

DHS admits new surge of illegal immigrant families

The country saw another surge of illegal immigrant families crossing the border in July, a top Homeland Security official told a federal court late Thursday as the administration begged a judge not to forbid detention of new migrant mothers and children.

August 7, 2015