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FILE - This June 21, 2007 file photo show a MQ-1 Predator controlled by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron stands on the tarmac at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, Iraq. A Pentagon official says the U.S. has started flying armed drones over Baghdad to protect U.S. civilians and military forces in the Iraqi capital. The official said the flights started in the last 24 to 48 hours to bolster manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights the military has been sending over violence-wracked Iraq in recent weeks. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the new flights on the record. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) **FILE**

Duncan Hunter: Coast Guard needs its own drones

Homeland Security officials regularly refuse to send out drones when the Coast Guard requests help with drug interdiction or search-and-rescue operations near the U.S. coast, a top House Republican said in a letter this week demanding answers.

April 27, 2016
In this photo made Monday, Dec. 22, 2014, oil tankers train cars ride past windmills neat Sweetwater, Texas. Sweetwater is bracing for layoffs and budget cuts, anxious as oil prices fall and its largest investors pull back. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Senate votes to restore full taxpayer subsidies for windmills

Hot air still rules on Capitol Hill, where senators voted Tuesday to restore millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for windmills, in a signal that Congress is still eager to pick winners in the emerging renewable energy sector.

April 26, 2016
U.S. Customs and Border Protection thought it had a handle on a surge of families and children crossing the border in remote areas of Texas and Arizona, but analysts say new cartels are involved in trafficking. (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrant families surge across border at record pace

The pattern of illegal immigration appears to be shifting yet again as families traveling together — usually mothers and their children — surge across the southwestern border at a record pace, posing more challenges for an Obama administration still struggling to figure out how to handle them.

April 24, 2016
A pedestrian walks past the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington in the rain on Oct. 10, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Appeals court tosses challenge to federal debt limit

A federal appeals court tossed out a challenge to the federal debt limit, ruling Friday that the lawyer who brought the lawsuit couldn't show he was personally harmed by the law limiting the size of the federal debt.

April 22, 2016
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said the indictments are just a first step and that he is awaiting the other investigations' conclusions. (Associated Press)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hoping for split Supreme Court to halt immigration amnesty

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's resigned to a less-than-total victory at the Supreme Court in his lawsuit challenging President Obama's deportation amnesty, saying Thursday that the best he can hope for is a 4-4 split ruling that would halt the amnesty but fall short of the legal spanking Mr. Obama deserves.

April 21, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears on the NBC "Today" television program in New York Thursday, April 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Donald Trump gets crushed among Hispanic voters: Poll

Donald Trump would win just 11 percent of the Hispanic vote in key battleground states in a matchup with Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, according to a new poll Thursday by immigrant-rights advocates that underscores just how intent Latinos are on punishing Mr. Trump for his strict stances.

April 21, 2016
New York is home territory for Donald Trump, who was born in Queens, grew up in the city and has based his massive business empire there. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump wins New York primary, demolishes Cruz, Kasich

Donald Trump crushed his opponents Tuesday night en route to a major victory in New York's Republican presidential primary, scoring a needed boost after a string of setbacks and putting himself back in the driver's seat as the campaign nears the final stretch.

April 19, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, in Lincoln, Neb., Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. Chief Justice Roberts said he’s worried about growing partisanship in the judicial confirmation process and a public perception that the court is a political body. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Chief Justice Roberts uses Obama’s words against him on immigration case

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. prodded the Obama administration Monday to explain President Obama's immigration flip-flop, when Mr. Obama in 2014 reversed himself and decided he did, after all, have powers to grant a tentative amnesty to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants.

April 18, 2016
When the justices convene Monday morning, they'll hear what's shaping up as the biggest case of the term, and perhaps one of the most consequential in a generation, as they consider whether President Obama overstepped his constitutional powers by trying to grant a tentative deportation amnesty to up to 5 million illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)

Obama amnesty Supreme Court case to test limits of presidential power

The Constitution was ratified more than two centuries ago, and in all that time no president had ever tested the limits of executive power enough to force the Supreme Court to rule whether he has lived up to the founders' command that the laws be "faithfully executed." Until now.

April 17, 2016
A commercial drone. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) ** FILE **

Texas sued over exemption zone for drone use

A Texas man sued Friday to stop a new state law giving drones "unfettered" rights to snap photos or video along the southwest border, saying it appears to be a racially tinged effort to target Mexicans for intrusive scrutiny.

April 17, 2016
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, has drafted a bill that insists companies help cracking the encryption on their devices under court orders. (Associated Press)

Apple, FBI encryption battle heats up in Congress

The battle between Apple and the FBI has shifted to the halls of Congress, where the House and Senate are taking dramatically divergent approaches as they weigh Americans' privacy rights against what the government says is a pressing need to get a peek at its citizens' secrets.

April 13, 2016