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James Comey. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Report to ding James Comey for hurting FBI’s reputation

Fired FBI Director James Comey damaged the bureau's aura of impartiality during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails, the Justice Department inspector general will say in a new report Thursday, according to Bloomberg.

June 14, 2018
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Thomas Homan, front, shakes hands with mounted Border Patrol agents during a news conference along the border Monday, May 7, 2018, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. clears more asylum cases than it receives in May

The government is making headway on the asylum backlog for the first time in years, clearing more cases in May than it received, as officials finally think they have hit on ways to tamp down on people abusing the system as a backdoor method of illegal immigration.

June 13, 2018
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes questions from reporters following a closed-door GOP meeting on immigration without reaching an agreement between conservatives and moderates, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2018. Ryan says party leaders will try crafting a compromise that follows President Donald Trump's immigration proposals. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Ryan says Trump will sign GOP’s new immigration bill

President Trump would sign Republicans' new immigration plan, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Wednesday, saying they wrote legislation that matches his "four pillars" approach of combining legalization for "Dreamers" with limits to both illegal and legal migration in the future.

June 13, 2018
FILE - In this March 30, 2015, file photo, marines of South Korea, right, and the U.S aim their weapons near amphibious assault vehicles during the U.S.-South Korea joint landing military exercises as a part of the annual joint military exercise Foal Eagle between the two countries in Pohang, South Korea. On May 16, 2018, North Korea abruptly cancels a high-level meeting with the South and threatens to cancel the summit with U.S. President Donald Trump too in protest over U.S.-South Korean military exercises. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

U.S.-South Korean military exercises still on: GOP senator

Any final deal President Trump signs with North Korea should come to Congress for ratification as a treaty, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday, adding his powerful voice to the calls for Congress to weigh in.

June 12, 2018
"The Senate is saying loudly and in a bipartisan fashion that the president is dead wrong to back off on ZTE," said Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s ZTE deal poised for Senate rollback

The Senate appears poised to take the first major step to rein in President Trump's trade policies, after senators struck a deal Monday on a measure that would block his plans for dealing with Chinese telecom firm ZTE.

June 11, 2018
Polling workers mill about an empty voting location at the University of Cincinnati on Nov. 7, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Supreme Court gives OK to states to clean voting rolls

States have a legal duty to clean up their voter rolls, the Supreme Court said Monday in a decision upholding Ohio's particularly proactive approach to deleting people it suspects have moved out of a district.

June 11, 2018
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes a point during his speech at the Western Conservative Summit, Friday, June 8, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) **FILE**

Jeff Sessions cracks down on bogus asylum claims

The Trump administration announced a major new crackdown on asylum-seekers Monday, issuing new guidance that saying people trying to claim the special protections must prove they were targeted because of their race, religion, or some other key characteristic.

June 11, 2018
White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow, left, and National Security Adviser John Bolton look on as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the G-7 summit, Saturday, June 9, 2018, in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump: Top economies should drop all tariffs

President Trump proposed a major shakeup of the world's economic order during a summit in Canada this week, suggesting the big economies drop all tariffs and market-distoring subsidies and go to a fully free system of trade.

June 9, 2018