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A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer is shown in this file photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Biden administration abolishes ICE labor union

The Biden administration delivered a death sentence Thursday to the labor organization that represents thousands of employees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

August 11, 2022
Then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is seated after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, June 25, 2021. In an interview aired by the BBC on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, Afghanistan's former president recounts his final hours in office, says he had just minutes to decide to flee and denies an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing accounts of former government officials, Taliban and even a former U.S. negotiator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Search for missing Afghanistan cash comes up empty

Afghanistan's former president didn't make off with millions of dollars of American money last year, but other people likely did, a U.S. inspector general said Tuesday in a report detailing his yearlong effort to track down what happened.

August 9, 2022
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, late Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump stiffens grip on GOP in wake of FBI raid

Former President Donald Trump emerged Tuesday with a firmer grip on the Republican Party after the FBI's raid on his Florida home, which quickly became a clarifying event in the 2024 presidential race.

August 9, 2022
This May 8, 2008, photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021, that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Insiders use ID access to steal from Americans

The pandemic spawned a tsunami of scams -- likely the largest fraud in world history -- and amid all of that, the government employees stand out as particularly egregious cases.

August 8, 2022
A Border Patrol agent watches as a group of migrants walk across the Rio Grande on their way to turn themselves in upon crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, on June 15, 2021. The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a cornerstone Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. It was a pro forma act that has drawn attention amid near-total silence from the White House about when, how and even whether it will dismantle the policy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

ACLU tells feds not to work with Texas on arrest of illegal immigrants

The American Civil Liberties Union is ramping up its battle against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border security push, filing a new complaint Monday with Homeland Security urging the department to limit how Border Patrol agents are able to work with Texas authorities.

August 8, 2022
An incomplete secondary wall stands alongside the previous version near where the border separating Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego meets the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean that then-first lady Pat Nixon inaugurated in 1971 as symbol of international friendship. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

DHS pauses border wall construction in San Diego

Customs and Border Protection hit pause Thursday on plans to erect a more modern 30-foot border wall at Friendship Park in San Diego, bowing to complaints from the community.

August 4, 2022
An agent hops out of a vehicle during a police raid against alleged migrant smugglers near the Mexican border in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022.Guatemalan authorities have arrested more than a dozen alleged members of a migrant smuggling network near the shared border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Feds announce bust of Guatemalan migrant-smuggling ring

Federal authorities on Thursday announced the takedown of a Guatemalan smuggling ring they said is responsible for "large numbers" of illegal immigrants making their way to the U.S. -- and was involved in the death of one migrant woman in Texas last year.

August 4, 2022