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Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum on Thursday tried to defend President Donald Trump's declaration this week that he was deporting a lot of "animals" from the United States - but his defense fell apart when confronted by several of the president's other past statements about immigrants. During a panel with CNN host Chris Cuomo and guest Ana Navarro, Santorum tried to claim that Trump was only referring to MS-13 gang members as "animals" on Wednesday.
A judge in Chicago will decide whether a suspect in the shooting of a federal agent must remain jailed pending trial. Thursday's detention hearing in federal court for 28-year-old Ernesto Godinez comes a week after his arrest.
The conservative House Freedom Caucus is pushing hard for an immigration bill despised by many advocates for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals participants - an effort that has a chance of getting a House vote as soon as next week. If that vote occurs, it would make it far more difficult for DACA backers to get votes on legislation they've been seeking.
The Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary "RBG" is turning into a mini box office phenomenon. The film cracked the top 10 this weekend with $1.2 million from only 180 screens nationwide.
President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani is urging special counsel Robert Mueller's team to wrap up its investigation on the eve of the probe's one-year anniversary. Giuliani tells Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham that Mueller "has all the facts to make a decision" after 12 months investigating Russian meddling in the election, possible collusion with Trump's campaign and possible obstruction of justice.
If you're planning on borrowing your buddy's rental car and loading it up with several dozen bricks of heroin, the Supreme Court gave you good news on Monday. In Byrd v.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for a dinner with EU and Western Balkan heads of state at the Sofia Tech Park in Sofia, Bulgaria, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. . French President Emmanuel Macron, left, is greeted by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov as he arrives for a dinner with EU and Western Balkan heads of state at the Sofia Tech Park in Sofia, Bulgaria, Wednesday, ... .
One year ago today, Robert S. Mueller III was appointed special counsel. Since then, his team's work has led to a web of inquiries digging deeper into President Trump's inner circle - and endless back-and-forth among partisan onlookers.
For years the political network funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch funded politicians on the right, laying the foundation for the libertarian causes the two support. Their support has gone almost exclusively to Republican candidates, with rare exception.
ON MAY 19, THOSE WHO were "lucky" enough to prefile to become a delegate to the 6th District Republican Convention, will not only vote for the next nominee to replace Congressman Goodlatte, but they will also be voting for the next chair of the 6th District Republican Committee. If you want someone who will not be biased toward any candidate and manipulate a federal election for that candidate, vote for Jennifer M. Brown.
Senate Democrats, joined by three Republicans, pushed through a measure intended to revive Obama-era internet rules that ensured equal treatment for all web traffic, though opposition in the House and the White House seems insurmountable. Republicans on the short end of the 52-47 vote described the effort to reinstate "net neutrality" rules as "political theater" because the GOP-controlled House is not expected to take up the issue and the Senate's margin could not overcome a presidential veto.
Global oil supplies could be hit by the decision by the US to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, and also by falling production in crisis-hit Venezuela, the IEA said on Wednesday. The decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran deal "has switched the focus of oil market analysis from the fundamentals to geopolitics," the International Energy Agency wrote in its regular monthly report.
A Florida prosecutor who got into a legal fight with the governor for her blanket refusal to seek the death penalty now says her office will no longer request monetary bail bonds for defendants accused of low-level crimes. Instead, prosecutors in the Orlando-area jurisdiction of State Attorney Aramis Ayala will recommend releasing defendants on their own recognizance for crimes involving possession of small amounts of cannabis, driving without a license, panhandling, disorderly conduct or loitering.
THE 6TH DISTRICT WILL soon select a replacement for retiring Congressman Bob Goodlatte. I believe the best candidate - who knows the district, its residents, and its issues - is Republican Ben Cline.
Witness accounts of gunfire, c... . FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2017, file photo, a body is covered with a sheet after a mass shooting in which dozens were killed at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas.
President Donald Trump has formally disclosed that he reimbursed his personal attorney more than $100,000 last year, apparently in connection with the payment of hush money to a porn star, government records show. The disclosure caps a series of contradictory statements from Trump and his representatives on the scandal swirling around lawyer Michael Cohen - which has widened to ensnare major corporations and a Russian oligarch.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, solicited a payment of at least $1 million from the government of Qatar in late 2016, in exchange for access to and advice about the then-incoming administration, according to several people with knowledge of the episode. The offer, which Qatar declined, came on the margins of a Dec. 12 meeting that year at Trump Tower between the Persian Gulf state's foreign minister and Michael Flynn, who became Trump's first national security adviser.
In this June 21, 2017, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed door meeting in Washington. It was one year ago Thursday when Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, was appointed as special counsel to take over the Justice Department's investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, waits to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled 'Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, July 27,2010. Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling turns a year old on Thursday, and Stephen Colbert said he knows exactly how the special counsel might celebrate.
In this 2008 file photo, Bumble Bee Foods President and CEO Christopher Lischewski testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. U.S. prosecutors have filed a criminal charge in San Francisco against Lischewski as part of an investigation into price fixing.