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A U.S. Border Patrol agent detains juvenile immigrants without proper documents near the U.S.-Mexico border on Dec. 10, 2015, at La Grulla, Texas. The number of unaccompanied minors and families crossing the border from Central America has surged in recent months.
Federal Judge G. Murray Snow has asked the US Attorney's Office to file criminal contempt charges against Arpaio and some of his subordinates over failure to follow the court's instructions in a racial profiling case. In May, Snow found Arpaio and three members of his office to be in civil contempt because they allegedly violated court orders designed to keep the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from racially profiling Latinos.
Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, one of two Democratic candidates for the California U.S. Senate seat, talks with a reporter at Cocina Cortes in Chico on Friday. The race for the California Senate seat this year is an unusual one, with two Democrats running against each other for the first time, and two minority women at that, to replace retiring fourth-term Sen. Barbara Boxer.
With less than three months to Election Day, neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is shifting to the ideological center, a break from modern presidential campaigns that's being driven by the decline of swing voters. In a speech on Thursday, Clinton again emphasized her progressive stances on economic issues such as raising the minimum wage, tuition-free public college, expanding Social Security, adding a public insurance option to the Affordable Care Act, and cracking down on Wall Street.
Hillary Clinton says she will visit flood-damaged Louisiana when "the presence of a political campaign will not disrupt the response." In a statement Monday, the Democratic presidential nominee called the floods a crisis in need of a national response.
Republican Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. Trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy under which the U.S. would stop issuing visas in cases where adequate screenings can't be performed.
" Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. In a speech the Republican presidential nominee will deliver on Monday in Ohio, Trump will argue that the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other ideological and strategic disagreements.
Illegal immigration in 2016 has already surpassed 2015 with two months still to go in the fiscal year, driven by a renewed surge of illegal immigrant children and families from Central America attempting to sneak into the U.S. Nearly 34,000 people were caught at the southwest border in July, up 5,000 compared to a year ago. And that brings the total for the first 10 months of the fiscal year to more than 332,000, which puts it ahead of all 12 months of 2015, according to Border Patrol statistics released late last week.
With less than three months until Election Day, Loretta Sanchez is running out of time to narrow the gap with front-runner Kamala Harris in California's U.S. Senate race. Both women are Democrats, but President Barack Obama's decision last month to endorse Harris - the state attorney general - was a capstone in her ascent.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spelled out their economic visions in high-profile speeches in Michigan this week. They delved into taxes and regulations, trade deals and job growth.
In his long shot bid to defeat Marco Rubio, Republican Carlos Beruff has yet to ignite the type of political grass fire that two years ago took out a top Republican leader in the U.S. House and nearly claimed four U.S. Senators. Following the insurgent's playbook, Beruff has spent more than $8 million of his own money on television ads.
Donald Trump says he plans to meet with Cuban-Americans to help determine whether he'll support continuing the "wet foot, dry foot" immigration policy. The Republican presidential nominee says the meeting will take place in about a week and that he'll probably have a decision "pretty quickly" about the federal policy, which generally allows Cubans who reach U.S. soil to remain in the country.
Republican vice presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop in Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016. LOCAL PRINT OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; WKEF-TV OUT; WRGT-TV OUT; WDTN-TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT Republican vice presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks during a campaign stop in Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016.
At a time when Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised that, if elected, "We're going to have a big, beautiful wall" dividing Mexico from the United States, a Jewish summer camp in Colorado is building a bridge between itself and a synagogue in Mexico City. This year, after several years of planning, more than 20 Jewish Mexican campers, three counselors and Rabbi Leonel Levy from Comunidad Bet-El de Mxico attended Ramah in the Rockies for two weeks, from July 20 to Aug. 2. Bet-El is a Conservative synagogue in Mexico City's upscale yet diverse Polanco district, and Camp Ramah is a network of Jewish summer camps affiliated with the Conservative movement.
The rise of George McGovern's hard-left agenda in 1972, followed later in the decade by Jimmy Carter's evangelical liberalism, drove centrist Democrats into the arms of Richard Nixon and later Ronald Reagan. These so-called neoconservatives grew tired of liberals' perceived laxity about fighting the Cold War.
Labuan: The panel set up by the Federal Government to identify is sues of non-compliance to the terms in the Malaysia Agreement 1963, which bestows special rights to Sabah and Sarawak, should set a date on when its findings will be completed and whether its recommendations will be implemented without delay. "Such declarations will help avoid adverse public perceptions that the new committee is not an eyewash that would end up with no outcome like several other panels or committees formed before to study various issues affecting Sabah," he said.
You would think that a presidential campaign that humiliated itself with a plagiarism scandal would have picked a new and fresh message for its election effort.
Two Illinois Republicans considered among the nation's most vulnerable congressional incumbents are breaking from their party and Donald Trump to advocate for new laws that would include a path to citizenship for people living in the country illegally. Rep. Bob Dold and Sen. Mark Kirk spoke at an event Wednesday in Chicago.
For a potential president Donald Trump, the rocky relationship he has with some Republican leaders " the ones he once refused to endorse, and those who have held back their kind words " could spill over into his first term at the White House. Here's a look at some of the key Washington players who haven't offered a ringing endorsement of the GOP nominee " and how their lack of support could affect the celebrity businessman's time in office.
JANESVILLE, Wis. - House Speaker Paul D. Ryan reveled in the aftermath of his commanding and expected primary victory Tuesday against Paul Nehlen, a Donald Trump-inspired opponent, by ordering cheese curds and beer for his supporters.