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President Obama. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama plan to shield millions from deportation rejected by appeals court

President Obama's effort to grant up to 5 million illegal immigrants work permits and amnesty from deportation suffered a major blow late Monday when a federal appeals court ruled it was likely illegal, in yet another move by the courts to set limits on this White House's efforts to stretch presidential powers.

November 9, 2015
A sign stands outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md., in this June 6, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Federal judge rules against NSA phone-snooping program

A federal judge ruled Monday that the National Security Agency must immediately stop snooping on a lawyer who challenged the spy agency's phone data collection program -- but issued a stay later in the day after the government made an emergency appeal, saying the decision would have forced them to shutter the whole program.

November 9, 2015
Rep. Don Young, the Alaska Republican who championed the bridge and remains one of Congress' biggest champions of earmarks, argues that his colleagues have forfeited part of their power of the purse, which the Constitution delegated to the legislative branch. (Associated Press)

Alaska kills ‘bridge to nowhere’ that helped put end to earmarks

Alaska officials have put the final kibosh on the infamous "bridge to nowhere" -- a $400 million project tucked into the federal transportation plan 10 years ago that became the symbol of Washington pork, spawned massive voter outrage and forever changed the way the government does business.

November 8, 2015
Workers at the Massachusetts State Archives in Boston point to a section of an original copy of the Bill of Rights sent to Massaschusetts by President Washington for ratification. Massachusetts did not ratify the Bill of Rights until the 1930s, preferring the state's own Declaration of Rights written by John Adams. (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrants release ‘Bill of Rights’

An immigrant-rights group proposed a "Bill of Rights" for illegal immigrants Thursday, demanding that Americans recognize there are millions already in the country who deserve health care, in-state tuition rates for college and a guarantee of citizenship in the long term.

November 5, 2015
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 3, 2015, following a Senate Democratic policy luncheon. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Ted Cruz illegal immigration crackdown blocked by Harry Reid

Senate Democrats rejected an effort to push back against sanctuary cities Wednesday, denying a request by Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz to immediately begin debating a bill to impose mandatory minimum federal sentences on repeat-illegal immigrants.

November 4, 2015
A military color guard stands at attention on the field for the singing of the national anthem before an NFL football game between the Miami Dolphins and the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Senators accuse NFL, other leagues of ‘paid patriotism’

Senators accused the Pentagon and top sports leagues Wednesday of using taxpayers' money to pay for some of the ceremonies honoring U.S. troops that have become staples of big-time American sporting events in a practice the lawmakers dubbed "paid patriotism."

November 4, 2015
John F. Sopko, the inspector general who overseas U.S. spending on Afghanistan reconstruction, called the cost for the green energy project exorbitant and deemed the project ill-conceived. (Associated Press)

Pentagon offers no answers on $43 million price tag for Afghanistan gas station

The Defense Department spent $43 million on a compressed natural gas fueling station in Afghanistan, while a similar project in Pakistan cost just $300,000 -- and now the Pentagon can't even account for who made the decisions behind the waste, according to an inspector general's report being released Monday.

November 2, 2015
In this file photo from Thursday Aug. 9, 2012, persons are detained for being in the country illegally and are transferred out of the holding area after being processed at the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. A report by a bipartisan think tank that oversees the implementation of 9/11 Commission recommendations and other Homeland Security issues says the department that oversees the U.S. Border Patrol does not use effective performance measurements. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)

Feds say 179,027 criminal illegals are loose on U.S. streets

Nearly 1 million immigrants have been ordered deported but still roam free in the U.S., including nearly 180,000 who have been convicted of crimes here, the Homeland Security Department said in information released Friday by the Senate immigration subcommittee.

October 30, 2015