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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, said he is pro-life but didn't promise voters to keep 90 percent of Obamacare's taxes and regulations in place to reshuffle dollars among the states. (Associated Press/File)

Senate ducks new debate on war on terror

The Senate voted to keep fighting the global war on terror under the 2001 framework aimed at striking al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, yet again delaying what most analysts say is a long-overdue update to tailor the war to the current threats of the Islamic State and lone-wolf attacks.

September 13, 2017
Border agents searching cellphones and other electronics without warrants has raised privacy concerns among civil liberties groups and privacy advocates. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

ACLU sues to stop DHS’s cellphone searches at the border

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday challenging the government's policy permitting searching cellphones of travelers entering the U.S., calling it a violation of privacy rights.

September 13, 2017
Computer security experts said bar codes on ballots and smartphones in voting locations could give hackers a chance to rewrite results in ways that couldn't be traceable. (Associated Press/File)

Voting machines can be hacked without evidence, commission is told

The country's voting machines are susceptible to hacking, which could be done in a way so that it leaves no fingerprints, making it impossible to know whether the outcome was changed, computer experts told President Trump's voter integrity commission Tuesday.

September 12, 2017
New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner watched Donald Trump fill out his papers to be on the nation's earliest presidential primary ballot in 2015. Mr. Gardner says he will remain on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, though he disagrees with voter fraud allegations made by the panel's vice chairman about his state. (Associated Press/File)

Voter fraud stories flood integrity commission

One man's mother, who was in a "memory care" ward of a nursing home and deemed too incapacitated to vote, somehow still managed to have a ballot cast in her name in Florida.

September 11, 2017
The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

National debt tops $20 trillion for first time

The federal government racked up $318 billion in new debt Friday, putting it over the $20 trillion mark for the first time in U.S. history, according to new Treasury Department numbers.

September 11, 2017
President Donald Trump (left) meets with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (foreground), New York Democrat, and other Congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 6, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump’s deal with Democrats upsets Republicans

President Trump's breathtaking deal struck with Democratic leaders to fund the government through early December, increase government borrowing and speed relief money to the victims of Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma has upended the narrative in Washington.

September 10, 2017
Former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano created the DACA program in 2012. Now, she's filed a lawsuit to keep the program as the University of California's president. FILE — In this May 18, 2017 file photo University of California President Janet Napolitano listens during a meeting of the Board of Regents in San Francisco. The University of California has sued the Trump administration over its decision to end a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The lawsuit filed on Friday, Sept. 8 in federal court in San Francisco includes university President Napolitano as a plaintiff. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File) (Associated Press)

Janet Napolitano sues Trump administration over DACA decision

The woman who created the 2012 deportation amnesty for Dreamers filed a lawsuit Friday protesting the Trump administration's move to phase out the program, saying the decision was done on President Trump's executive "whim."

September 10, 2017
FILE - In this May 18, 2017 file photo University of California President Janet Napolitano listens during a meeting of the Board of Regents in San Francisco. The University of California has sued the Trump administration over its decision to end a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. The lawsuit filed on Friday, Sept. 8 in federal court in San Francisco includes university president Napolitano as a plaintiff. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Janet Napolitano sues DHS to preserve her DACA amnesty

The woman who created the 2012 deportation amnesty for Dreamers filed a lawsuit Friday protesting the Trump administration's move to phase out the program, saying the decision was done on President Trump's executive "whim."

September 8, 2017
A family looks towards metal bars marking the U.S. border where it meets the Pacific Ocean in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 2, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

DHS picks four more border wall designs

Homeland Security awarded four contracts Thursday to build prototypes of a non-concrete border wall on the U.S.-Mexico boundary, rounding out the finalists for President Trump's signature campaign promise.

September 7, 2017