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In this June 20, 2014, file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants entered the country through an area referred to as zone nine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Illegal immigrant children refusing to show up for deportation: report

Most of the surge of children caught jumping the U.S.-Mexico border illegally over the past two years haven't even had their cases decided by the immigration courts, leaving them in a legal limbo as states and counties struggle to assimilate them into schools and health care systems, according to a report released Thursday.

October 15, 2015
Glen Mead operates a line drill machine at a rock quarry, in Montrose, Pa., in this Oct. 9, 2015, file photo. Mead spent his life working as a dairy farmer and at age 60, began working with Rock Ridge Stone in Montrose, to make ends meet. For just the third time in 40 years, millions of Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal retirees can expect no increase in benefits next year, unwelcome news for more than one-fifth of the nation's population. (AP Photo/Brett Carlsen)

Feds say no raise for Social Security beneficiaries

Social Security recipients won't get a taxpayer-funded raise in 2016 after a still-sluggish economy and a drop in the price index showed seniors' costs haven't risen over the last year, the government reported Thursday.

October 15, 2015
Donald Trump. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump: Bernie Sanders is a communist

Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that up to 20 percent of reporters go out of their way to distort the truth about him, as he launched a wide-ranging critique of his fellow GOP presidential candidates, the press, Democrats' debate and his own campaign spending.

October 14, 2015
Democratic presidential candidates from left, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee take the stage during the CNN Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Democrats divide deeply over guns in debate

Gun control quickly divided the candidates in the kick-off Democratic presidential debate Tuesday, with two of them saying the party needs to respect the voices and wishes of Americans, particularly in rural areas, who believe guns are a critical right.

October 13, 2015
NumbersUSA, a lobby that wants to see a crackdown on illegal immigration, grades Rep. Paul Ryan a D-minus on the issue. (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan emerges as House speaker favorite despite immigration stance

He's been one of the GOP's biggest backers of legalizing illegal immigrants, and his chief legislative accomplishments were deals to boost spending and give President Obama more negotiating powers in trade deals -- yet Rep. Paul Ryan has become House Republicans' consensus choice to lead them.

October 11, 2015
Senate Environment Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan. 7, 2015 file photo (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Court halts EPA’s controversial water rule

A federal appeals court dealt the Obama administration's environmental agenda a major blow, halting a water rule and saying more time is needed to determine whether the regulations are legal.

October 9, 2015
The email scandal shows little sign of subsiding a year after the State Department first prodded Hillary Rodham Clinton to return some 30,000 messages from her four years as secretary.

Court refuses to combine Clinton email cases

The federal district court in Washington rejected the State Department's request that a single judge take over the dozens of Clinton email lawsuits pending, dealing a major blow to the Obama administration, which must continue to grapple with more than a dozen judges.

October 8, 2015
The House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, confers with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at the start of the panel's third public hearing to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Trey Gowdy: Democrats thwarting Benghazi investigation

Rather than cooperate, Democrats have tried to thwart the Benghazi probe from within since the beginning, the special panel's chairman said in a letter released Thursday that accused Democrats of bad faith and also announced the release of emails that call into question the relationship between former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her associate Sidney Blumenthal.

October 8, 2015
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Jan. 28, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Feds spend $60,000 on zombie apocalypse play

Federal taxpayers ponied up $60,000 this year to fund a raunchy zombie-themed play -- an expense one senator says is a brainless example of waste within the government.

October 8, 2015