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In this Nov. 19, 2019, photo, asylum seekers from Central America and Cuba follow an Immigration and Customs Enforcement guard into the Richard C. White Federal Building in El Paso, Texas. A judge on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, has blocked a Trump administration rule that would have put up new roadblocks for asylum-seekers convicted of a variety of crimes. It was set to take effect Friday. The federal judge in San Francisco says current federal law already includes plenty of disqualifying crimes such as drug trafficking, money laundering and counterfeiting. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio) **FILE**

Judge blocks DHS asylum crackdown on lower-level criminals

A federal judge last week blocked President Trump's latest attempt to crack down on asylum-seekers after the administration expanded the number and types of crimes that can bar people from getting protection to include offenses like multiple DUIs and ID fraud.

November 20, 2020
In this Aug. 6, 2020, photo, New York State Attorney General Letitia James takes a question at a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) **FILE**

New York warns of surge in ‘revenge porn’ during coronavirus

New York's attorney general warned Wednesday of a surge in "revenge porn" during coronavirus, with people in lockdown turning to online ways to be intimate -- and then having their activities recorded and potentially posted without their consent.

November 18, 2020
In this June 17, 2018, file photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas. A federal judge on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, urged the Trump administration to do more to help court-appointed researchers find hundreds of parents who were separated from their children after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border beginning in 2017. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP, File)

Fake families expose border child separation problem

Most of the attention has gone to the Trump administration's zero-tolerance border policy, which stepped up prosecutions in 2018 of parents who jumped the border with children. There are no family facilities in federal jails, so the children were separated -- and the government didn't have a good plan to reunite them.

November 16, 2020
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan gets ready to take questions from journalists during a news conference on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020 in Annapolis, Md., where the governor announced how about $70 million in federal money will be used to help fight the virus. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Larry Hogan, Maryland governor, tells Trump ‘the time has come’ to concede

Eyeing his own 2024 presidential bid, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan unloaded on President Trump on Monday, saying that while he struck a chord with some disaffected voters he was ineffective, spawned "toxic politics" that chased away suburban women and young voters, and showed a "loose affiliation with the truth."

November 16, 2020
In this Aug. 20, 2019, file photo Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, speaks at the 23rd Annual Lake Tahoe Summit, Tuesday, at South Lake Tahoe, Calif. Ms. Cortez Masto is leading other Democrats in calling for an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status for more than 400,000 migrants from six countries who currently are protected from deportation under the program. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) **FILE**

Democrats demand immigration status be part of spending bills

A group of Senate Democrats demanded Saturday that a new extension of tentative legal status for would-be undocumented immigrants be part of any year-end spending package, throwing a new wrinkle into an already touchy debate over avoiding a government shutdown.

November 14, 2020
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi stands firm on $3.4 trillion coronavirus bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blew off disappointing election results Thursday, saying it does nothing to undercut her demand for a massive new coronavirus spending bill she says is needed to "crush" the virus.

November 12, 2020