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For John McCain, a lifetime of courage, contradictions and contrarianism came down to one vote, in the middle of the night, in the twilight of his career. The fate of President Donald Trump's long effort to repeal Barack Obama's health care law hung in the balance as a Senate roll call dragged on past 1 a.m. on a July night in 2017.
Refugee supporters hold up a banner as they gather in Sydney on October 5, 2016 to mark the milestone of 200 days of continuous protests in the detention camp on the Pacific island of Nauru. Source: Peter Parks/AFP Self-immolation, hunger strikes, self-harm and suicide are preferred by many children over living in Australia's refugee camps on Nauru, while the government continues to assert "children grow up happy and healthy on our island."
Republican presidential candidate John McCain attends at a town hall campaign event at Peterborough Town Hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire on November 2, 2008. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images hide caption Republican presidential candidate John McCain attends at a town hall campaign event at Peterborough Town Hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire on November 2, 2008.
John McCain, who died Saturday at 81 , will be remembered as many things father, former prisoner of war, U.S. senator, presidential nominee but perhaps his most enduring legacy is captured in a single word: maverick. But how did the Arizona Republican earn the label that has come to define his rise in national politics? We've rounded up some of his most memorable moments in which he showed he was not afraid to stand up for what he believed in.
In the wake of the tragic killing of Mollie Tibbetts, the left-wing has wasted no time in trying to demonize anyone who dares to utter the words "illegal immigration." For many, the death of another young American woman at the hands of an illegal immigrant has been hard to process - and her murder has prompted calls from the Right to buckle down on illegal immigration and tighten up the nation's borders.
For John McCain, a lifetime of courage, contradictions and contrarianism came down to one vote, in the middle of the night, in the twilight of his career. The fate of President Donald Trump's long effort to repeal Barack Obama's health care law hung in the balance as a Senate roll call dragged on past 1 a.m. on a July night in 2017.
This undated photo provided by the Iowa Department of Public Safety shows Cristhian Bahena Rivera. Authorities said on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, that they have charged a man living in the U.S. illegally with murder in the death of Iowa college student, Mollie Tibbetts, who disappeared a month ago while jogging in a rural area.
It's simply wrong, says Danielle McLaughlin, that Mollie Tibbetts' death has become a way into the immigration debate for the Right of US politics. OPINION: This week, Iowa investigators located the remains of Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old college student, who had disappeared 34 days earlier while out for a jog.
It would take a heart of granite not to be moved by the suffering of this Guatemalan family, who are but a mere few pawns in the US' deterrence strategy of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents. The bravery through tears of seven-year-old Osmin, as he speaks to his mother on the phone, a month into his detainment, is shattering.
Migrant workers pass freshly picked watermelon down a line to be loaded up in a produce trailer at the Mandujano Brothers Produce's watermelon field on Oct. 3, 2017, in Coyanosa, Texas. Dane Lang, a co-owner of Yarrabee Farms outside of Brooklyn, Iowa, stood outside his family farm this week and lamented that he had employed the undocumented immigrant charged in the murder of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts.
Donald Trump is getting dissed for having no thoughts, prayers or anything else for dying Sen. John McCain, but took the time to give thanks to Kim Kardashian for being a 'good wife' to Kanye West. If you look up the word "petty" in the dictionary, it should show a picture of President Donald Trump , 72 and his shabby treatment of longtime U.S. Senator, former presidential candidate and war hero John McCain , 81. The Arizona Republican's family announced on Aug. 24 that he would no longer be seeking treatment for an aggressive brain cancer, essentially going into hospice care until he dies.
A top Republican fundraiser whose firm works for several prominent immigration hardliners is the partial owner of the land where the Mexican man accused of killing Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts lived rent-free, a farm spokeswoman said Friday. Nicole Schlinger has long been a key fundraiser and campaign contractor for GOP politicians in Iowa and beyond, including this cycle for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart.
More than 400,000 people came to the U.S. on legal visitor visas in 2017 but were still here six months after their time was up, the government said in a new report Tuesday detailing the less-talked about side of illegal immigration. While people jumping the border gets the most attention, "visa overstays" account for a large percentage of new immigrants who settle illegally in the country every year.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department says more than 700,000 foreigners who were supposed to leave the country during a recent 12-month period overstayed their visas.
Kolkata, Aug 7 - BJP National Secretary Rahul Sinha on Tuesday called upon the Muslims in the country to support the draft NRC in Assam and said that Trinamool Congress' opposition was an attempt to divert attention from its failures in West Bengal. I urge the Indian Muslims, especially those living in Bengal, to come forward and support the implementation of the NRC in this state as well.
President Donald Trump endorsed Kris Kobach ahead of Tuesday's Kansas Republican gubernatorial primary. The endorsement doesn't come as a surprise, but should Kobach win, it could cost the Republican Party a governor's seat in deep red Kansas.
President Donald Trump overruled the warnings of aides Monday to endorse controversial Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in that state's Republican gubernatorial primary. In a morning tweet ahead of the Tuesday contest, Trump said Kobach has his "full & total Endorsement!" as he faces off against a field of candidates that includes incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer.
President Donald Trump officially endorsed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Monday, a day before polls close in Kansas in the GOP primary for governor. The endorsement is a major slight to the state's sitting governor, Jeff Colyer of Johnson County, who rose to the state's top office in January after Trump appointed former Gov. Sam Brownback to an ambassadorship.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Fort Scott Livestock Market in Fort Scott, Kan. less Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Fort Scott Livestock Market in Fort ... more Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and candidate for the Republican nomination for Kansas Governor addresses supporters during a campaign stop Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, at the Fort Scott Livestock Market in Fort Scott, Kan.