Ryan: Deporting young immigrants not in nation’s interest

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., left, answers questions during an interview with Julie Pace, AP chief of bureau in Washington and Erica Werner, AP congressional correspondent, at the Associated Press bureau in Wash... WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday said that deporting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought into the country illegally is "not in our nation's interest," as he and President Donald Trump prepared to huddle with top Democrats to try to hash out a legislative fix.

White House: Trump to dine with Schumer and Pelosi

President Donald Trump will have dinner with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday night, the latest overture by the Republican president to work with his adversaries. The White House said that Trump had invited the two Democratic leaders to dinner, more than week after the president reached an agreement with Schumer and Pelosi - despite objections from Republicans - on a three-month agreement to raise the debt ceiling, keep the government running and speed hurricane relief to states.

Sanders bill expands Medicare for all, lacks details on cost

Americans would get health coverage simply by showing a new government-issued card and would no longer owe out-of-pocket expenses like deductibles, according to legislation Sen. Bernie Sanders released Wednesday. But the Vermont independent's description of the legislation omitted specifics about how much it would cost and final decisions about how he would pay for it.

Clinton’s tome won’t help her party rebound

Was this book necessary? Hillary Clinton's anguished, angry memoir of her presidential campaign, "What Happened," was unveiled this week, with television appearances and a 15-city lecture tour to follow. "I love Hillary," Al Franken, the senator from Minnesota, said a few weeks ago.

Melinda Gates decries a loss of U.S. leadershipa in global aid

Melinda Gates and her husband, Bill, the Microsoft co-founder, pause before being honored for their philanthropic work in France this April. SEATTLE - Melinda Gates is calling on world leaders to step up global aid funding, saying "a loss of U.S. leadership" is resulting in "confusion and chaos" in some of the most vulnerable corners of the planet.

Pelosi, top White House official open on border security

By ERICA WERNER and KEN THOMAS Associated Press WASHINGTON - The top House Democrat and a senior White House official both indicated Tuesday they are open to compromise on border security to expedite legislation to help immigrants brought here illegally as children. White House legislative director Marc Short said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast that despite President Donald Trump's advocacy for a southern border wall, "I don't want us to bind ourselves into a construct that makes reaching a conclusion on DACA impossible."

‘What Happened’ in 2016? Hillary Clinton still doesn’t know

Was this book necessary? Hillary Clinton's anguished, angry memoir of her presidential campaign, "What Happened," will be unveiled this week, complete with television appearances and a 15-city lecture tour. Other Democrats have been dreading this moment for months.

Trump’s right: Immigration is Congress’ mess

Amid the laudable moral support for the DACA recipients after President Donald Trump's revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, liberals should keep in mind an important constitutional principle: Immigration is supposed to be the province of Congress, not the executive. The belief that the president has ultimate immigration power can lead to terrible results -- like Trump's travel ban against six majority-Muslim countries, also powered by the mistaken idea that immigration policy should be set by executive order.

Hillary Clinton’s book keeps Democrats divided and focused on the past

Former President Barack Obama isn't the only past Democratic leader who refuses to ride off into the sunset. Hillary Clinton reemerges Tuesday with a new book explaining yet again her loss in the 2016 presidential election - without much insight into how they can win next time.

Daniel Ruth: Trump policy throws Dreamers into limbo

President Donald Trump proclaims he has "great love" for the Dreamers, referring to the roughly 800,000 young people who benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals after they were brought to this country illegally by their parents. Yet Trump announced this week his administration would void DACA and give Congress six months to come up with something else.

The problem with Jagmeet Singh’s ‘love and courage’ reaction to heckler: Paradkar

Turning the other cheek is supposed to be the Christian, or in this case, Sikh, thing to do. Yet, it's an expectation unfailingly placed on racialized and Indigenous people who face the dual burden of facing the attack and then having their reaction unduly scrutinized and any slight used to indict their communities.

California Sues Trump Administration Over DACA Elimination

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Monday he is suing President Donald Trump's administration to block it from ending protections against deportation for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. and left the issue for Congress to resolve legislatively in the next six months, when work permits and deportation protections will begin to lapse for many of its recipients.

Pope hopes Trump re-thinks DACA decision on immigrant children

Pope Francis said he hoped U.S. President Donald Trump would re-think his decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrant children, saying it was important for young people to have roots. "One hopes that it is re-thought somewhat," Francis said on Sunday in answer to a question on the plane returning from Colombia about the program started by his predecessor and known as Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals .

Congress will finally have to solve problem

President Donald Trump basically did what he had to do last week in announcing he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals rule that was put in place by his predecessor. President Barack Obama had put the rule in place, contrary to current immigration law, to prevent the deportation of people who had entered the country illegally as children, brought by their parents.