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Journalists are reflected on the tombstone of Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda after he was reburied at his home, now a museum, on Isla Negra, Chile, Tuesday, April 26, 2016. Neruda's body was exhumed in 2013 for a fourth time in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how the poet died in the days after Chile's military coup. The results of the analysis will be delivered on May 5. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Government paid out benefits to deceased Americans

The government paid out more than $1.7 million in benefits to Americans who'd died years ago, and who the feds' chief personnel office knew were dead — but forgot to tell the Social Security Administration.

August 30, 2016
In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, suspected illegal immigrants are transferred out of the holding area after being processed at the Tucson Sector of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

DHS ponders end to private prisons for illegal immigrant detainees

The Homeland Security Department may stop using private jails to detain illegal immigrants, Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday, taking his cue from the Justice Department, which announced earlier this month it was phasing out the use of private prisons.

August 29, 2016
Syrian refugee Hamzeh Jouriyeh, 12, studies a map of the United States in the Amman, Jordan, office of the International Organization for Migration. (Associated Press)

10,000th Syrian refugee arriving in the U.S.

The U.S. welcomed its 10,000th Syrian refugee Monday afternoon, achieving President Obama's goal with more than a month to spare in the fiscal year -- and there are some 30,000 more waiting in the wings and ready to be resettled if the administration can handle them.

August 29, 2016
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said his agency will stop targeting the nonprofit applications of tea party groups, and will process held-up applications. (Associated Press)

IRS vows to finally stop targeting tea party groups

The IRS is still holding up three tea party groups' applications, Commissioner John Koskinen admitted in a letter to Congress last week -- but he insisted he agents are finally about to begin processing them.

August 25, 2016
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks in Washington on June 28, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Harry Reid calls mother of Benghazi victim ‘crazy,’ then retracts it

Sen. Harry Reid, who led Democrats to a Senate majority and then back into the minority, triggered the nuclear option to change Senate rules and used a special budget tactic to get Obamacare passed, told a Nevada newspaper not to blame him for partisanship in Washington.

August 24, 2016
Donald Trump said he's going to build a border wall — "It's going to happen, 100 percent" — and said he'll do it "almost immediately" after claiming the White House. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump open to ‘softening’ deportation stance

Donald Trump said Tuesday he's open to "softening" his stance on deporting illegal immigrants with deep ties to the U.S., adding still more confusion to where the GOP presidential nominee stands on one of the core issues he rode to victory in this year's primaries.

August 23, 2016
Members of the Graduate Employee and Students Organization-Unite Here deliver a petition bearing the names and faces of hundreds of Yale University graduate student employees during a protest on campus in New Haven, Connecticut on Oct. 15, 2015. (Associated Press)

NLRB rules that university students can unionize

Graduate students at private U.S. universities can unionize, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday in a decision that could upend the balance of power on campuses and deliver tens of thousands of new members to labor unions.

August 23, 2016