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Figures show about 2,000 minors separated from families

Nearly 2,000 minors have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on ...

Summit does not deal with North Korea's hacking

Among the subjects President Donald Trump apparently didn't discuss with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore — the ...

DHS reports about 2,000 minors separated from families

Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown ...

Alex Ovechkin, Sarah Huckabee Sanders

GOP lawmakers decry family separations as WH defends policy

Congressional Republicans distanced themselves Thursday from the Trump administration's policy of separating children from ...

Eritrean US detainee kills himself at Egyptian airport

An Eritrean national who was denied asylum in the United States and was being sent back to his homeland has died in an ...

Hillary Clinton

Secret Service overpaid about $4m for 2016 campaign flights

The Secret Service spent about $4 million too much for seats on campaign planes during the 2016 presidential election after ...

Kim Yong Chol

US says North Korea behind malware attacks

The Trump administration issued a fresh warning Tuesday about malicious North Korean cyber activity, as that nation's leader ...

Donald Trump

'Animals'? Trump says he'll keep using term for gang members

President Donald Trump is defending his use of the word "animals" to describe some immigrants who enter the country ...

HHS considering housing immigrant children at military bases

The Health and Human Services Department is considering housing at military bases those children picked up crossing the U.S.

Kirstjen Nielsen

Homeland Security boss defends separating immigrant families

The head of the Department of Homeland Security defended the Trump administration's practice of separating children from ...

Kirstjen Nielsen

Trump fumes at Homeland Security head over immigration

President Donald Trump unloaded on Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a heated Cabinet meeting this week, ...

US officials discover Hungary passport fraud scheme

U.S. officials have identified a passport fraud scheme in Hungary that has allowed people to enter the U.S. under false ...

ACLU sues 3 federal agencies for immigration records

Worried about increasingly aggressive tactics, civil liberties groups in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont sued the federal ...

Sessions: Zero-tolerance policy may split families at border

A "zero-tolerance" policy toward people who enter the United States illegally may cause families to be separated while ...

Former Obama adviser teams up with group helping US hostages

A former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama is teaming up with a non-profit that gives ...

Trump's pick to lead immigration agency announces retirement

President Donald Trump's pick to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has taken himself out of the running less than ...

US to end special protections for 9,000 Nepalese immigrants

The Trump administration will end special protections for an estimated 9,000 Nepalese immigrants living in the United States, ...

Judge rules against ending program to protect Dreamers

A federal judge ruled Tuesday against the Trump administration's decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants ...

Sidney Thomas

Judges weigh scope of Trump sanctuary cities order

A federal appeals court on Wednesday scrutinized whether President Donald Trump's executive order to withhold funding from ...

Scott Pruitt

Dems: No evidence of credible threats against EPA's Pruitt

Confidential security assessments in the Environmental Protection Agency show no evidence of specific, credible, physical ...