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In this July 9, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks as Judge Brett Kavanaugh his Supreme Court nominee, listens in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump made his second Supreme Court pick this week. Unless a justice dies, Trump has likely picked his last justice. Trump has speculated that he could appoint a majority of the nine-member court. But it has been three decades since a president has been able to name more than two justices to their life-tenured posts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Dems officially request delay in Kavanaugh hearing

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee officially requested a delay Friday in the planned confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, saying there are too many questions to move forward with the Sept. 4 planned start.

August 24, 2018
Members of the Center for Biological Diversity and other immigrant advocates protest outside 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court hearing challenging Trump's border wall Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif. A federal appeals court will hear arguments by the state of California that the Trump administration overreached by waiving environmental reviews to speed construction of the president's prized border wall with Mexico. At issue Tuesday before a three-judge panel in Pasadena, California, is a 2005 law that gave the Homeland Security secretary broad authority to waive dozens of laws including the National Environmental Policy Act and Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Ariel Tu)

Green groups ask Supreme Court to stop Trump border wall

Environmental groups begged the Supreme Court on Thursday to step in and block construction on President Trump's border wall, saying he's circumventing dozens of laws designed to protect everything from wildlife to Native American graves.

August 23, 2018
Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr answers questions from the media after his speech at the 16th Annual Institute for Corporate Counsel in Los Angeles, Calif., March 13, 1997. Starr said on Thursday that is would be wrong to set time limits on independent counsel probes, since justice does not occur in neat chronological chunks. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Judge orders report on Starr Clinton probe media leaks released

A federal judge Wednesday ordered the government to quickly process and release a long-secret report detailing an investigation into whether anyone in the independent counsel's office in the 1990s leaked grand jury information to the press.

August 22, 2018
This undated photo made available by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration shows heroin fentanyl pills. (DEA via AP)

Feds target manufacturers, dealers, doctors in major anti-opioid sweep

The Justice Department opened several new fronts Wednesday in the battle against opioid addiction, announcing legal action against Chinese manufacturers that ship drugs into the U.S., "dark net" operators who sell them to users, and doctors who overprescribe painkillers to their patients.

August 22, 2018
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen address the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity Summit, Tuesday, July 31, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

DHS gets new leader on international affairs

Homeland Security has a new assistant secretary for international affairs with the elevation of Dimple Shah, who will shepherd the department's efforts to get other countries to cooperate on deportations and work on cutting their flow of illegal immigrants heading to the U.S.

August 22, 2018
United We Dream youths and allies snap their fingers to show support to other DACA recipients speaking to the media after a court hearing in lawsuit filed by states challenging DACA program at the United States District Courthouse on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, in Houston. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle via AP) ** FILE **

Judge halts full DACA restart

The federal judge who had ordered the government to restart the Obama-era deportation amnesty in full has backed off his decision and said the government does not, after all, have to begin accepting new applications.

August 18, 2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Feds accuse Facebook of discrimination over ad-targeting policy

The Trump administration announced a fair housing discrimination complaint against social media giant Facebook on Friday, saying the way the company targets ads can be used to screen out people based on race, sex or other protected categories.

August 17, 2018