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More than 150 Afghan troops brought to the U.S. for military training have gone AWOL since 2005, with 13 of them still unaccounted for and perhaps living as here illegal immigrants now, an inspector general said in a new report Friday. Part of the problem is that the U.S. never puts the trainees through an in-person interview and exempts them from registering as aliens when they arrive - both steps that other visitors would normally have to go through.
Ex Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks during a campaign event at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, for Omar Navarro, a South Bay Republican challenger to incumbent Rep. Maxine Waters. Rancho Palos Verdes Calif., Thursday, October 18, 2017.
Trump is repeating his predecessors' mistakes but in the opposite ideological direction, failing to address the concerns that led to his election and in the process rehabilitating the political forces he opposes. Maybe President Trump can bring peace to the Middle East after all.
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Joe Arpaio's request to erase a criminal contempt conviction from his record, saying a presidential pardon of the former sheriff didn't change the facts of the case. Arpaio, the former top lawman in Maricopa County, Arizona, for more than two decades, was spared a jail sentence when he was pardoned by President Donald Trump in August after being convicted of criminal contempt.
From left, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Delaware Sen. Chris Coons and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal talk Wednesday as Sessions arrives for the Senate Judiciary oversight hearing on the Justice Department. Attorney General Jeff Sessions took an unusual path to the witness table before Wednesday's Justice Department oversight hearing.
A federal judge said Wednesday that she was "astounded" the U.S. government is blocking a detained Central American teenager from terminating her pregnancy, during a fiery court hearing that showcased Trump administration efforts to restrict abortion and illegal immigration. After a brief hearing that included a testy exchange with government lawyers, Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the government to move "promptly and without delay" to transport the 17-year-old girl or allow her to be transported by others to the nearest abortion provider.
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President Donald Trump's eldest son will stop in Johnson County next month to campaign for conservative firebrand and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach, bringing national support to a competitive governor's race at the end of Gov. Sam Brownback's tenure. Donald Trump Jr. will appear alongside Kobach at a campaign dinner and VIP reception Nov. 28 at the Ritz Charles in Overland Park, Kobach said Monday.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters and members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Oct. 13, 2017. WASHINGTON - Frustrated with his inability to spur Congress to act on much of his agenda, President Trump is increasingly using his executive powers in a risky bid to gain leverage with lawmakers on an array of unfulfilled campaign promises.
A recently-released research study sheds light on the values of white working-class voters in the United States and the reasons these voters strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. The trio of researchers conducted the study by visiting four places between August 2016 and March 2017: Birmingham, Alabama; Dayton, Ohio; Tacoma, Washington; Phoenix, Arizona; and - for some reason - the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
During the exercise the officers searched an abandoned house near the home of a convicted killer and found two guns, an air rifle and a Sig-Sauer machine gun along with 610 rounds of assorted ammunition. The lawmen also found the marijuana at the house.
It's time to build the wall - and, in doing so, prevent an estimated 690,000 DACA "Dreamers" from being deported from the United States. It's a fair deal that could be scuttled only by intense and self-serving partisanship from the White House and the Republican and Democratic congressional leadership.
BY JOE SHAHEELI Western and midstate Republicans are warming up for the 2018 political season by sharpening their teeth on controversial Philadelphia news. Majority Chairman Daryl Metcalfe and 15 Republican members of the House State Government Committee sent a letter to Secretary of the Commonwealth Pedro A. CortA s in response to a report by City Commissioner Al Schmidt that some non-citizens were registered to vote, largely through irregularities in the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's "motor voter"A process.
A Leighton Buzzard firm found itself on the wrong side of the law after hundred of imported flick knives were intercepted at an airport. Customs officers found 961 flick knives in boxes marked 'cutlery and novelty items' arriving from the US, when they intercepted the stash at East Midlands Airport on February 15. UK Immigration Authority forfeited the items before they could be sent to publishers Artemis Webb Ltd, based in Drakes Avenue, Leighton Buzzard.
Ahead of Austrian national elections Sunday, the question is less whether the country will swing rightward under the next government and more about how sharp that turn will be, with voters set to reward two major parties that have exploited fears of immigration and Islam. Chancellor Christian Kern is vowing to take his center-left Social Democrats into the opposition if defeated and a handful of small parties are struggling to clear the 4 percent hurdle needed to get seats in parliament.
"This action protects public safety and ensures hard-working people who contribute to our state are respected," Gov. Jerry Brown said as he signed a package of bills aimed at protecting at least 2 million undocumented residents from being detained and, perhaps, expelled. It's California's most dramatic "resistance" to President Donald Trump, at least so far, and seems destined to provoke his administration, particularly Attorney General Jeff Sessions, into a confrontation.
Right now, leaders of Tea Party holdover groups are calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to step down from his position. The conservative groups are all saying that Sen. McConnell, from Kentucky as well as the rest of his enablers should all go take a hike.
Today's editorial is to those responsible for stealing and destroying several U.S. flags that belonged to a Boy Scouts troop in Borger. Permit us to provide you with a bit of logic and perspective, if logic and perspective are permitted in today's politicallycorrect environment.
Rep. Luke Messer spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives last week, asking House colleagues to support House Resolution 2817 . The legislation would allow only taxpayers with Social Security numbers to claim the Child Tax Credit, which provides a federal tax credit of $1,000 per child for low-income families.
President Donald Trump's long list of immigration demands has landed with a thud among lawmakers hopeful for a deal to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The list of demands released late Sunday includes funding for a southern border wall and a crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities - items that are cheered by the president's most loyal supporters, but are non-starters among Democrats and could divide Republicans, who will have to come together on any deal.