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Ohio congressman is first Republican House incumbent to lose

Democrat Greg Landsman ousted longtime Republican Rep. Steve Chabot in Ohio on Tuesday, delivering the first red-to-blue flip of the night.

November 9, 2022

Voters say view from White House is largely divorced from what’s happening in their lives

President Biden's insistence that the economy is strong -- and certainly not in a recession -- rang hollow Tuesday to voters who said the view from Pennsylvania Avenue is largely divorced from what they see in their lives.

November 8, 2022

Smugglers demand illegal immigrant pay $4,000 pregnancy fee

An illegal immigrant told Border Patrol agents she and her husband were going to be charged an extra $4,000 smuggling fee to be brought deeper into the U.S. after her smugglers realized she was too big to make it in their usual smuggling method.

November 8, 2022

Inflation, crime top abortion, climate as voters give GOP the edge

Crime has become the tipping-point issue and has joined inflation for a one-two punch that prognosticators say appears ready to deliver significant gains to Republicans in House, Senate and governor's races nationwide.

November 7, 2022

‘Unacceptable’: Republicans blast Biden efforts to recover stolen pandemic unemployment cash

Key House Republicans have demanded the secretary of Labor preserve evidence of how it's grappled with the massive amount of fraud in the pandemic unemployment program, saying the department's response to the theft of perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars has been "unacceptable."

November 7, 2022

Feds paid for room service, laundry and babysitters for illegal immigrants kept at hotels

Homeland Security not only put illegal immigrant families up in hotels at taxpayer expense but the contract it signed insisted they be given five-star treatment with laundry service, their choice of mattresses and guards -- not to keep them in, but to keep others out.

November 6, 2022

Who checks the fact-checkers after indignant accusations fizzle out?

Fact-checkers posit themselves as independent arbiters of truth. Many are even part of the International Fact-Checking Network, which lays out standards for how they should operate.

November 6, 2022

Border numbers worsened in October; historic number of gotaways

Border Patrol agents apprehended nearly 210,000 illegal immigrants at the southern border in October, according to preliminary numbers obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that show yet another rise in the level of chaos along the U.S.-Mexico boundary.

November 5, 2022

Supreme Court’s two Black justices diverge on affirmative action

Perhaps it's fitting that a Supreme Court now deciding the largest affirmative action case in 50 years finally has two Black justices sitting on it.

November 3, 2022

Fact-checkers were wrong: Once mocked, GOP gets last word on terrorism suspects at border

When top Republicans last year warned that Border Patrol agents were catching terrorist suspects jumping the southern border, fact-checkers were swift to object. A year later, the facts are on the Republican side -- but the fact-checkers still aren't.

November 3, 2022

Guatemala used U.S. military jeeps to intimidate American diplomats

The U.S. gave armed jeeps to Guatemala through a military equipment program. Guatemala then used the jeeps to intimidate the American embassy and to scare protesters, according to congressional investigators.

November 2, 2022

Republicans show Mayorkas what’s coming if GOP wins control of the House

House Republicans' top investigators wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday demanding he pony up reams of information on the chaotic border that he's withheld during his tenure in office.

November 2, 2022

Illegal immigrant convicted of murdering good samaritan whistleblower

An illegal immigrant has been convicted of murder conspiracy for killing a man who had blown the whistle on his own hiring of illegal immigrants to work for a tree-cutting company in Georgia.

November 1, 2022

Faces of death: Sheriffs showcase graphic evidence of the rising body count at the border

Sheriffs are collecting horrific photos of the bodies of migrants near the U.S.-Mexico boundary, looking to shock the country into action to deal with the chaotic southern border.

November 1, 2022

Feds won’t seek death penalty for men charged in deaths of 53 migrants

The Justice Department says it won't seek the death penalty for two men it says orchestrated the smuggling run this summer that ended up killing 53 illegal immigrants in Texas.

November 1, 2022

Border agents stopped illegal immigrants’ armed incursion from Mexico

Border Patrol agents chased off four illegal immigrants armed with AR-15-style rifles along the border in California, the agency revealed Tuesday.

November 1, 2022

Supreme Court eyes end of race-based preferences in school admissions

The Supreme Court on Monday waded deeply into thorny issues of race, with the court's GOP-appointed justices expressing skepticism over schools' use of racial box-checking to promote enrollment of Black or Hispanic students.

October 31, 2022

Afghan criminals will be released into U.S., former ICE director says

Mohammad Tariq came to the U.S. as an Afghan evacuee. Now he's sitting in a Homeland Security detention facility while officials try to see if there's any other country willing to take him off their hands.

October 30, 2022

Supreme Court faces chance to settle racial preferences in school admissions

Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor famously imposed an expiration date on affirmative action, writing in the 2003 majority ruling that she expected race-based preferences would no longer be needed to balance out school admissions in 25 years. The Supreme Court will take up her challenge Monday with the clock ticking toward her deadline.

October 27, 2022

Foster families fight to adopt Indian children over tribal objections

The Supreme Court will hear cases from three families challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act. Under the ICWA, decisions about adoption -- which in other circumstances are made by state courts or governments that consider the best interests of the child -- are shifted into tribal hands when an American Indian child is involved.

October 27, 2022