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Ruling in travel ban leaves myriad questions unanswered

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s decision to partially reinstate President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban has left the effort to keep some foreigners out of the United States in a murky...

DATE: Jun 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump wants a 30-foot wall at Mexican border

Budget includes $2.6 B down payment for structure

DATE: Mar 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. to target more for deportation

Immigrants with any arrest will be top priority under new rules

DATE: Feb 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Fallout from Trump’s new immigration crackdown grows

Some legal residents who left country can’t return

DATE: Jan 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

More people sneaking into U.S. from afar

WASHINGTON – An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American mig...

DATE: Nov 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama expanding refugee program for Central Americans

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration will soon expand efforts to help Central American families and children legally immigrate to the United States amid another surge of migrants caught cro...

DATE: Jul 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cubans fleeing in high numbers despite new diplomatic ties

WASHINGTON – While more than 50 years of enmity between the United States and Cuba is slowly vanishing, the renewed relationship is raising concerns among some on the communist island nation...

DATE: Apr 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House committee calls Secret Service an agency in ‘crisis’

WASHINGTON – The Secret Service is an agency “in crisis,” tarnished by scandals that have eroded its prestige and plagued by low morale, according to a House committee’s critical report. ...

DATE: Dec 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP’s Trump, Carson authorized for Secret Service protection

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Secret Service has started to protect the presidential campaigns of Republicans Ben Carson and Donald Trump, the Homeland Security Department said Thursday. ...

DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Heroin, prescription pain pills top drug threat in the U.S.

WASHINGTON – Heroin and prescription pain pills are among the top drug threats in the U.S., according to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s latest drug threat assessment Wednesday. ...

DATE: Nov 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. deportations down 42% since 2012

ICE says it is focusing on serious public safety, security threats

DATE: Oct 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Federal watchdog reopening latest probe of Secret Service

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog is reopening the investigation into efforts by the Secret Service to discredit a congressman who was investigating the agenc...

DATE: Oct 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World