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In this May 1, 2019, photo, Attorney General William Barr testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

DOJ willing to turn over documents if House stops contempt vote

The Justice Department said Tuesday it is ready to restart negotiations with House Democrats to provide documents investigators are seeking in their do-over of the special counsel's Russia investigation, but only if the House calls off its scheduled contempt vote.

June 4, 2019
In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows foreign nationals being arrested this week during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP) ** FILE **

Dems move to cut Border Patrol, ICE in 2020 spending bill

Instead of giving President Trump the money he wants to solve the border crisis, Democrats on Tuesday said they plan to go the other direction and cut from the border agency and to severely limit ICE's ability to deport illegal immigrants.

June 4, 2019
In this Feb. 9, 2018, photo, White House Communications Director Hope Hicks appears in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson defy subpoenas

The White House has told Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson, two top former presidential advisors, not to turn over documents Congressional Democrats have subpoenaed, saying President Trump needs to have a chance to look over the materials and see if any of them should be protected by executive privilege.

June 4, 2019
President Donald Trump pauses while speaking during a news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May at the Foreign Office, Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in central London. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump says Mexican tariffs will take effect

Republicans and Democrats warned President Trump on Tuesday to quickly strike a border deal with Mexico and drop his threat of economically crippling tariffs, saying otherwise he faces an embarrassing vote to override his move in Congress.

June 4, 2019
This March 2, 2019, file photo, shows a Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. A border activist charged with helping a pair of migrants with water, food and lodging is set to go on trial in U.S. court in Arizona. Defendant Scott Daniel Warren has argued that his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress. The trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Tucson, with the 36-year-old Warren charged with harboring migrants and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men found with him who were in the U.S. illegally. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

2 illegal immigrants die after breaching border

Two illegal immigrants died at the border in less than 24 hours this week, in both cases succumbing just minutes after they breached the border, officials said Monday, detailing a rapidly expanding death toll from the migrant surge.

June 3, 2019
U.S. Attorney General William Barr listens to concerns raised about public safety in rural Alaska during at a roundtable discussion at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) ** FILE **

Democrats move to hold William Barr, Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress

The House Oversight Committee announced Monday it will hold a vote to recommend holding Attorney General William P. Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress, saying they've refused to turn over documents about adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

June 3, 2019
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talks to reporters just after the Senate passed a $19 billion disaster aid bill to help a number of states and Puerto Rico recover after a series of hurricanes, floods and wildfires, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Republican leaders agreed to Democrats' demand to toss out President Donald Trump's $4.5 billion request to address a record influx of Central American migrants who are fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras and elsewhere and coming to the United States. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Chuck Schumer: Trump is fabricating border crisis

The Senate's top Democrat on Monday accused President Trump of fabricating the border crisis, saying his attempts to cut off foreign assistance for Central American governments is backfiring by sending more people north.

June 3, 2019
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-NY, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks during a news conference, in New York, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

House Dems to hold hearings on Mueller report

The House Judiciary Committee on Monday announced a series of hearings focusing on special counsel Robert Mueller's report, laying the groundwork for a broader investigation into President Trump.

June 3, 2019
Top officials from the U.S. and Mexico will begin talks Monday in a scramble to fend off President Trump's threat of devastating tariffs and meet his demand for fewer migrants at the border. (Associated Press/File)

Border crisis awaits Congress return

Congress returns Monday from vacation to face an immigration and border crisis that looks strikingly different from what it did when members fled town in May after failing to pass an emergency bill to fund the government's efforts to accommodate the illegal immigrant surge.

June 2, 2019
Ericka Ames, center, 18, of Nicaragua recites the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Kendall Field Office, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) ** FILE **

DHS says citizenship approvals rose in 2018

Homeland Security reached a five-year high in approvals of citizenship applications last year, and swore in more people as naturalized citizens as well, according to the new statistical report released Friday night.

May 31, 2019
This May 29, 2019 photo released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shows some of 1,036 migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, the largest that the Border Patrol says it has ever encountered. Video shows them going under a chain-link fence to the U.S., where they waited for agents to come. The Border Patrol has encountered 180 groups of more than 100 people since October, compared to 13 during the previous 12-month period and two the year before. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection via AP)

African migrants discover U.S. immigration loopholes

Border authorities nabbed a group of 116 illegal immigrants from Africa this week, saying it's the first time they've found Africans taking advantage of the large-group tactic Central American migrants have learned to abuse.

May 31, 2019