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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of Wis., speaks with reporters during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, June 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Paul Ryan: ‘We are united’

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan declared Congress 'united' Wednesday in the wake of the vicious morning attack on Republicans practicing baseball, saying lawmakers.

June 14, 2017
Alexandria, Va. Police and other first responders block East Monroe Ave. in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, June 14, 2017, after a shooting involving House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La, at a congressional baseball practice. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress somber after Scalise shooting

Much of Congress's business shut down Wednesday morning after a senior House lawmaker, an aide and two U.S. Capitol Police officers were shot at a baseball practice earlier in the day in Alexandria.

June 14, 2017

Thomas Homan, ICE chief, says illegal immigrants should live in fear

Illegal immigrants should be living in fear of being deported, the chief of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday, pushing back against a growing sentiment among Democrats on Capitol Hill and activists across the country who have complained about agents enforcing the laws on the books.

June 13, 2017
In this Saturday, May 20, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump holds a sword and sways with traditional dancers during a welcome ceremony at Murabba Palace, in Riyadh. Trump and his entourage were treated to a traditional all-male Saudi sword dance. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Saudi king, Trump swayed side to side and briefly joined the groove. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Senate preserves Trump arms deal with Saudi Arabia

Senators narrowly avoided a serious foreign policy rebuke to President Trump on Tuesday, rejecting an effort to cancel his sale of precision-guidance systems to Saudi Arabia to make that Middle East nation's missiles more accurate.

June 13, 2017
FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2015 file photo, Juan Escalante, of the immigration reform group America's Voice, conducts interviews in New York. Young immigrants protected by executive action from deportation say they won't "rest easy," even if President Donald Trump said they should. Nearly 800,000 people living illegally in the U.S. qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Trump said Friday, April 21, 2017, that his administration is "not after the dreamers, we are after the criminals. Escalante , who was brought to the U.S. from Venezuela at age 11, told the AP Friday, April 21, 2017, "I don't think anyone should feel comforted." (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Court orders DHS to reinstate amnesty for Georgia Dreamer

A federal judge ordered Homeland Security Monday to reinstate an amnesty for a Dreamer and blasted the government for "running roughshod" over a young woman in a ruling that breaks new ground in legal rights for illegal immigrants.

June 12, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, and White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting, Monday, June 12, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump moves to accept hundreds of refugees from Iran under Obama deal

President Trump is preparing to accept hundreds of refugees from Iran and other terrorist-connected countries, taking them from camps being maintained by Australia under a deal his predecessor struck, without putting them through the long vetting that usually takes place, according to a report being released Monday.

June 12, 2017
"You've got to solve this problem," Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly told the House Homeland Security Committee when members prodded him not to deport Dreamers. (Associated Press)

John Kelly, DHS secretary, suggests Dreamer amnesty

The Trump administration last week floated an amnesty idea for potentially 1 million illegal immigrants, looking to find permanent solutions for some of the most sympathetic cases in the long-running immigration debate.

June 11, 2017
Eric C. Conn, seen here in a photo issued by the FBI, is accused of attempting to bilk the federal government with more than $500 million worth of bogus Social Security disability applications.

FBI offers $20,000 reward for capture of Social Security fraudster

The fraudster who tried to bilk the federal government out of more than $500 million worth of bogus Social Security disability applications is still believed to be in the U.S., the FBI said Friday, issuing a wanted poster with new details about the case.

June 9, 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**

Illegal immigration up 27 percent last month

Illegal immigration across the southwest border appears to have jumped 27 percent in May, according to numbers released this week by Homeland Security, breaking a three-month streak of declines under President Trump and suggesting the slump in migrants has bottomed out.

June 9, 2017
People walk outside of the U.S. Capitol on April 27, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

GOP plots changes to avoid government shutdown showdown

An influential group of House conservatives admitted Friday that they've been outmaneuvered in recent government shutdown showdowns, and called for Congress to ditch the current spending process in hopes of avoiding more losses in the future.

June 9, 2017
Former FBI Director James B. Comey said under oath that while he believed President Trump hoped he'd drop the Michael Flynn investigation, Mr. Trump didn't explicitly ask. (Associated Press photographs)

James Comey admits Trump not explicit on ending Flynn inquiry

It's not clear that a sitting president could ever be convicted of obstruction of justice, legal experts said, laying out the giant task that would face anyone trying to prosecute a case against President Trump and his interactions with fired FBI Director James B. Comey.

June 8, 2017