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Ingrid Vaca, originally of Bolivia who now lives in Arlington, Va., rallies for immigration reform after marching from Arlington, Va. to the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 20, 2015, on the one-year anniversary of President Obama's announcement concerning Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DAPA). (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Democrats to demand new amnesty from Obama for Central Americans

Congressional Democrats are circulating a petition pressing President Obama to extend a new temporary amnesty to potentially millions of illegal immigrants from Central America, saying the violence in their home countries makes it too dangerous to continue deporting anyone to the region.

January 8, 2016
Rep. Ed Royce said a new bill holds the White House to committing to pressure Iran on supporting terrorism. (Associated Press)

House set to vote for North Korea, Iran sanctions

House Republicans said they'll vote next week to slap new sanctions on North Korea and Iran to punish the rogue nations for continuing to develop their weapons programs, as they try to force President Obama to drop his more accommodating stance toward the two enemy nations.

January 7, 2016
"While he represented a potential safety threat, there is no indication that he planned any acts of terrorism in this country," U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, in the eastern district of California, said in a statement announcing the arrest of Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab. (Associated Press)

Iraqi refugees arrested on terrorism charges

Authorities arrested two Iraqi refugees on terrorism-related charges Thursday, in a move that undercuts President Obama's plans to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. this year.

January 7, 2016
Just months after Republicans helped grant President Obama fast-track negotiation powers to finish the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, GOP leaders said they were disappointed with the final deal the president won in the 12-nation talks. Democrats, meanwhile, have been overwhelmingly opposed from the start. (Associated Press)

Keystone pipeline lawsuit threatens Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership

This week's Keystone pipeline lawsuit may deliver the death blow to a seemingly unrelated Asian trade deal, with environmentalists and labor unions saying a Canadian company shouldn't be allowed to use international trade agreements to force changes in U.S. energy and environmental policy.

January 7, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign event, at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. (Mikayla Whitmore/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

Bernie Sanders demands halt to deportations to Central America

Seeking to put distance between himself and President Obama, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernard Sanders fired off a letter Thursday demanding the administration halt its new round of raids designed to find and deport illegal immigrants who are ignoring judges' orders that they leave the country.

January 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton's email arrangement has proved an embarrassment both for her and for President Obama, her political opponent in 2008 who then became her boss in 2009 after he tapped her to be his top diplomat. (Associated Press)

State Department misled on Hillary Clinton emails, investigation concludes

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aides knew about her secret email account but allowed the department to mislead the public about its existence, an inspector general said in a report Thursday that found widespread problems with transparency during Mrs. Clinton's tenure.

January 7, 2016
FILE - In this Sept 23, 2011 file-pool photo, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson speaks in Orlando, Fla. The Libertarian Johnson is running for president a second time after winning more than a million votes in 2012. Johnson announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party nomination at the New Mexico state capitol in Santa Fe. (AP Photo/Joe Burbank, Pool, File)

Gary Johnson announces bid for president

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who washed out of the 2012 GOP presidential primary then ran as a Libertarian, capturing 1 percent of the vote in the general election, said Wednesday he'll try again.

January 6, 2016
Pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry wait in line Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, in San Diego. On Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection began capturing biometric facial and eye scans of foreigners entering the country at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry on foot. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

DHS says sweep of illegals has begun

Moving to belatedly counter a new surge of illegal border crossings, Homeland Security has launched a new effort to try to kick out new arrivals, Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday, defending a series of raids over the weekend that have enraged immigrant-rights activists.

January 4, 2016
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her phone after attending a U.S.-Russia meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 23, 2010. The revelation that Mrs. Clinton used an off-the-books email account during her time as secretary of state has raised fresh questions about her credibility heading into 2016. (Associated Press)

State Dept. breaks judge’s deadline on Clinton emails

The State Department broke a judge's order on the number of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails it was supposed to release Thursday, blaming the holiday season for throwing it off track.

December 31, 2015
President Obama is piling up red tape just as fast as conservatives are plotting to cut it after he departs. (Associated Press)

Obama sets record for new rules in 2015

The administration issued a record amount of heft in the federal rule book in 2015 as President Obama's team, carrying out his orders to work around Congress, pushed his expansive government agenda on environmental, labor and Wall Street policy.

December 30, 2015
Texas Department of Safety Troopers patrol on the Rio Grand along the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, Texas, on July 24, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Agents nab Pakistanis with terrorist connections crossing U.S. border

When the U.S. Border Patrol nabbed two Pakistani men with ties to terrorism at the U.S.-Mexico border in September, it marked just the latest instance of illegal immigrants from so-called "special interest countries" using the southern border as a point of entry into the country.

December 30, 2015
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2020 census will benefit Texas, Florida in congressional numbers

Texas is in line to be the biggest winner in congressional reapportionment at the end of the decade, when the country's 435 U.S. House seats are divvied up by population, with new estimates showing the Republican powerhouse state poised to gain three seats.

December 28, 2015
President Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State John Kerry, meets with veterans and Gold Star Mothers to discuss the Iran nuclear deal in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington on Sept. 10, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Congress warns Obama to enforce foreign fighter ban against Iran

House Republicans demanded this week that President Obama apply strict visa travel rules to anyone who visits Iran and then tries to come to the U.S., saying the Islamic republic was always meant to be one of the targets of a crackdown on potential foreign fighters sneaking into the country.

December 23, 2015
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Duncan Hunter slams Nancy Pelosi’s push to regulate e-cigarettes

Democrats cheered after they managed to prevent a carve-out for e-cigarettes in last week's year-end spending bill, but one congressman -- an admitted "vaper" himself -- says they've only succeeded in making more people end up choosing to go back to traditional, and deadlier, tobacco.

December 22, 2015
An American flag on a nearby resident's home waves in the breeze on Dec. 15, 2010, near a U.S. Border Patrol truck blocking the road leading to a search area near where agent Brian Terry, 40, was killed northwest of Nogales, Ariz. (Arizona Daily Star via Associated Press)

U.S. deports fewer illegals, criminals as Obama amnesty kicks in

President Obama slashed the number of deportations in 2015, the administration announced Tuesday, removing out only about 235,000 aliens from the U.S. as his amnesty kicked into full gear, putting most illegal immigrants out of reach of agents.

December 22, 2015