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In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people out of Kabul over about six weeks as the American-backed Afghan military and government fell to the Taliban. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

Afghanistan evacuation price tag rises by $7 billion

Members of Congress say they still can't get clear answers about the U.S evacuation effort in Afghanistan, but they're being asked to approve an additional $7 billion to manage the pipeline of people still coming and the tens of thousands of Afghans already here.

December 2, 2021
U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. presidential election event, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

Feds pay billions to fraudsters tied to China and Russia in COVID-19 schemes

As the coronavirus pandemic raged, Uncle Sam was doing more than putting money in unemployed Americans' pockets -- the federal government was also shipping tens of billions of dollars overseas to fraudsters working with the country's most prominent adversaries, such as China and Russia.

November 29, 2021
In this June 16, 2021, file photo U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

AOC pleads with Senate to rescue immigration amnesty in Biden budget bill

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and dozens of her fellow Democrats, who just voted for a bill that falls well short of citizenship rights for illegal immigrants, are now pleading with their Senate colleagues to give them a mulligan and add a path to citizenship back into the legislation.

November 23, 2021
Supporters of immigration reform march while asking for a path to citizenship and an end to detentions and deportations, April 28, 2021, in Washington. Biden took office on Jan. 20 and almost immediately, numbers of migrants exceeded expectations. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Deportation orders from immigration judges plummet under Biden

The Biden administration's more lenient approach to illegal immigration is now showing up in the nation's immigration courts, where over the final three months of the last fiscal year, judges issued deportation directives in less than a third of cases.

November 21, 2021
A sign marks one of the entrances of the U.S. Army base Fort Lee Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021, in Petersburg, Va. Afghan refugees who have been prescreened by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been taken to Fort Lee and other temporary reception centers are being set up at Fort Bliss in Texas and Fort McCoy in western Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Feds shut down first U.S. camp used for Afghan evacuees

The final Afghan evacuees who'd been housed at Fort Lee, the first evacuee camp set up on U.S. soil, have now been processed and resettled in the country, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

November 17, 2021
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

DHS chief Mayorkas: ‘I give myself an A for effort’

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas graded himself with an "A for effort" on Tuesday, telling senators he believes the Biden administration is on the right track to solve the border's chaos and to make up for what he called cruel Trump policies.

November 16, 2021