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Jim Steinle, second from left, father of Kathryn Steinle, in photograph, testifies next to Montgomery County (Md.) Police Department. Chief J. Thomas Manger, right, before a Senate Judiciary hearing to examine the Administration's immigration enforcement policies, in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Kathryn Steinle was killed on a San Francisco pier, allegedly by a man previously deported several times. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Advocate: Sanctuary crackdown won’t go far enough

Congress is rushing to write a new law punishing sanctuary cities who refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, but the father of a man killed by an immigrant said Wednesday he doubts it will go far enough to save enough lives.

July 22, 2015
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during her weekly news conference in Washington, Thursday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Pelosi blames feds for sanctuary city killing

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi put the blame for the release of an illegal immigrant implicated in the July 1 murder of Kathryn Steinle on federal agencies and bad communication Wednesday, rather than on San Francisco's sanctuary policy.

July 22, 2015
President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" during a taping, on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama defends IRS, says tea party targeting didn’t happen

President Obama defended the IRS Tuesday in an interview with "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, saying the tea party targeting scandal was actually Congress's fault for passing "a crummy law" and that the real problem is the agency doesn't have enough money.

July 21, 2015
Stopped: Illegal crossings along the Mexico border have slowed below the pace of the George W. Bush administration, but Steven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, said overall numbers should be declining as a result. (Associated Press)

2.5 million illegals cross border under Obama, less than Bush

About 2.5 million illegal immigrants have settled in the U.S. during President Obama's tenure, according to estimates being released Monday by the Center for Immigration Studies, which said it's an improvement compared with the Bush administration.

July 20, 2015
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with the media in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Justice Dept. to Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Speak Spanish in jails

The Justice Department announced a deal Friday requiring Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to provide services in Spanish to his jail inmates, settling part of a two-year-old discrimination complaint the Obama administration filed against the man known as "America's Sheriff."

July 17, 2015
President Obama asked Americans to wait for more facts about the Chattanooga shootings, and did not use the word "terror" to describe the attack. (Associated Press)

Chattanooga shootings: Obama policies blamed for rise in domestic terrorism

President Obama called the murder of four Marines in Tennessee Thursday "heartbreaking" and pleaded for Americans not to jump to conclusions, but Republicans were already blaming him for what investigators termed domestic terrorism, as the shooting quickly became part of the 2016 presidential campaign.

July 16, 2015
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks to the Associated Press in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 13, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Nancy Pelosi: ‘I support the sanctuary’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she supports San Francisco's sanctuary city policy even after authorities say it may have directly led to the murder of a young woman in the city earlier this month.

July 16, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Las Vegas on June 18, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Hispanics already in Democratic corner for 2016

Hispanic voters remain firmly entrenched in the Democratic camp, according to a new survey released Thursday that found them favorable toward President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and skeptical of Republicans -- though largely unfamiliar with the GOP presidential field.

July 16, 2015
Donald Trump answers questions surrounding his bid for the U.S. presidency in Albemarle House, a property of his outside of Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (P. Kevin Morley/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) ** FILE **

Donald Trump: Net worth more than ‘TEN BILLION DOLLARS’

Donald Trump earned more than $200 million from NBC for his 14 seasons of "The Apprentice," he reported in new federal financial disclosure forms filed with the government Wednesday as part of his presidential campaign.

July 15, 2015
Liz Sullivan (left) and Jim Steinle, parents of Kathryn Steinle, talk to members of the media outside their home in Pleasanton, Calif., on July 2, 2015. Kathryn Steinle was shot to death, apparently at random, while walking with her father and a friend along a popular pedestrian pier on the San Francisco waterfront on July 1. The woman was shot Wednesday evening at Pier 14 and died at a hospital. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Associated Press)

DHS says it has contacted family of Kathryn Steinle, S.F. victim

Immigration officials did contact the family of Kathryn Steinle to offer their condolences on her murder, the Homeland Security Department said in a statement Wednesday, a day after Secretary Jeh Johnson said he wasn't aware of whether any contact had been made.

July 15, 2015
Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley is eager to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton on the debate stage and to strengthen his national name recognition, but he will have to wait for the Democratic National Committee to schedule candidate face-offs. (Associated Press/File)

Martin O’Malley: Give health care to illegals

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley's new immigration plan would extend Obamacare privileges to illegal immigrants, including those here under President Obama's deportation amnesty, allowing them to use their own money to buy in the health exchanges.

July 15, 2015
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declined to criticize sanctuary cities and told Congress not to try to pass laws forcing cooperation, saying it could conflict with the Constitution, and it won't win over the hearts of reluctant communities. (Associated Press)

Sanctuary cities beyond federal control, DHS chief Jeh Johnson admits

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted Tuesday that the administration goofed in releasing an illegal immigrant to sanctuary city San Francisco ahead of a shocking murder earlier this month, but said there's little the government can do to pressure sanctuary communities to change their minds.

July 14, 2015
President Barack Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden, delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2015, after an Iran nuclear deal is reached. After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, diplomats Tuesday declared that world powers and Iran had struck a landmark deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Congress unlikely to stop Iran deal

Congress will get 60 days to review the Iran nuclear agreement, and it's no sure thing lawmakers will accept the deal the administration struck -- though President Obama will still likely get his way in the end.

July 14, 2015