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President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Nov. 10, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump cuts Barack Obama’s refugee policy in half

President Trump, in just eight months in office, has succeeded in upending U.S. refugee policy, cutting by more than half the 110,000-refugee target that the Obama administration had bequeathed him and dramatically shifting the demographics of who is accepted.

September 26, 2017
A couple rides past the entrance to the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Key West, Fla. Businesses and residents in the Keys are removing debris and fixing damage caused by Hurricane Irma in anticipation for the return of tourists in the area. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Dems say hurricanes should force delay in DACA phaseout

The recent battering of hurricanes has left such a mess that the Trump administration should delay its phaseout of the Obama-era deportation amnesty for Dreamers, or DACA, policy, top Democrats said Monday.

September 25, 2017
With immigrants and advocates chanting and beating drums outside, a federal appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether to allow a Texas law aimed at combating “sanctuary cities” to immediately take effect. On Monday, they upheld key parts of the law. (Associated Press/File)

Appeals court revives Texas anti-sanctuary city law

A federal appeals court revived Texas' law against sanctuary cities on Monday, allowing key parts to take effect -- including requiring localities to hold on to illegal immigrants for pickup by deportation officers.

September 25, 2017
In this Sept. 5, 2017, file photo, Yurexi Quinones, 24, of Manassas, Va., a college student who is studying social work and a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA, rallies next to Ana Rice, 18, of Manassas, Va., far right, in support of DACA, outside of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Republicans release slimmed-down Dream Act

Two Republican senators are introducing a slimmed-down version of the Dream Act on Monday, hoping to offer a slightly more conservative option to grant a pathway to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

September 25, 2017
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Voter group puts 248 counties on notice over bloated voter rolls

The Public Interest Legal Foundation is warning nearly 250 counties that they could face a lawsuit over bloated voter rolls, after their own analysis released Monday found they have more people registered to vote than could theoretically be eligible.

September 25, 2017
President Trump the updates to his travel ban policy in a proclamation — a change from the executive order format he used in January and again in March. Administration officials insisted that the different format doesn't affect the legality of the directive. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump alters travel ban to include North Korea, Venezeula, Chad

President Trump issued a new travel ban policy Sunday night, adding Chad, North Korea and Venezuela to the list of majority-Muslim countries whose citizens were already prohibited from entering the country under his previous "extreme vetting" executive order.

September 24, 2017
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the Palace Hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

Trump admin. claims victory as travel ban set to expire

President Trump is preparing to add more countries to his six-nation travel ban executive order -- though he'll likely impose lesser penalties such as additional traveler screening on them, administration officials said Friday.

September 22, 2017
In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

DOJ backs former Sheriff Arpaio, tells judge to erase conviction

The Trump administration renewed its defense of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, telling a federal judge that not only has the lawman been pardoned, but that his original conviction needs to be stripped from the record altogether.

September 21, 2017
Supporters of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival demonstrated in front of the White House against President Trump’s order to phase out protections for immigrants brought into the U.S. illegally as children. (Associated Press/File)

DACA denial rate doubles under Donald Trump administration

The Homeland Security Department has doubled the rate of denials of Dreamers' amnesty applications, according to numbers released Wednesday that suggest the administration had been taking a harder line even before President Trump's announcement this month that he would phase out the DACA program altogether.

September 20, 2017
While President Trump's claims of millions of fraudulent votes have not been substantiated, Philadelphia's data shows fraudulent voting happens — contradicting claims by voting rights activists that it is so rare as to not be worth investigating. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

Philadelphia finds hundreds of illegal voters

Hundreds of non-citizens were registered to vote in Philadelphia over the last decade, and at least 90 of them actually ended up casting ballots that should never have been allowed, City Commissioner Al Schmidt said Wednesday, adding more fuel to complaints of bogus voting in U.S. elections.

September 20, 2017
Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environmental Initiatives at Apple Inc., speaks at the PUSHTech2020 Summit Wednesday, May 6, 2015, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) ** FILE **

Lisa Jackson, Ex-Obama EPA chief, blasts Trump transparency

Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, who used a secret email alias during her time at the agency, lashed out Tuesday at the Trump administration for destroying the agency's credibility by being "non-transparent."

September 19, 2017