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FILE - This June 18, 2014, file photo, detainees sleep in a holding cell at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection, processing facility in Brownsville,Texas. Immigration courts backlogged by years of staffing shortages and tougher enforcement face an even more daunting challenge since tens of thousands of Central Americans began arriving on the U.S. border fleeing violence back home. For years, children from Central America traveling alone and immigrants who prove they have a credible fear of returning home have been entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool, File)

Mexican, Central American immigrants slower to assimilate in U.S.

Immigrants overall do rather well at assimilating into the U.S., but there are major differences — particularly for poor Mexican and Central American immigrants, whose families lag behind the kind of integration the U.S. has prided itself on for decades, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine said in a report Monday.

September 21, 2015
Hillary Rodham Clinton turned over about 30,000 email messages in December, while her aides turned over more than 100,000 pages between them, with the final set only being returned, by Huma Abedin, earlier this month, the State Department said in court filings. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton emails: FBI refuses to cooperate in server probe

The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a court-ordered inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's email server, telling the State Department that they won't even confirm they are investigating the matter themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government what's going on.

September 21, 2015
Huma Abedin, who has been at Hillary Rodham Clinton's side as her personal assistant or "body woman" since the 2008 presidential race, faced criticism for standing by her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, after sexting scandals that damaged his political career. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton aides relinquish more than 100,000 pages of emails

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aides have belatedly turned over more than 100,000 pages of emails they had kept on personal email accounts, or accounts tied to Mrs. Clinton's server, the government told a federal judge late Friday.

September 19, 2015
The 2010 census forms (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) ** FILE **

Investigation finds sex, fraud and retaliation at Census office

Forty employees in the Census Bureau's hiring office bilked the government out of $1.1 million in pay they never earned, broke government rules by hiring friends, and tried to intimidate whistleblowers who ratted them out, according to a new inspector general's report Thursday that said supervisors even "led" the misconduct.

September 17, 2015
Donald Trump took much of the fire in the early part of the debate, with debate moderator Jake Tapper of CNN asking the other candidates whether they would trust Mr. Trump as commander in chief. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Donald Trump defends place at head of Republican field

The Republican field sparred for the title of anti-establishment champion Wednesday in the second debate of the presidential campaign, with front-runner Donald Trump defending his temperament amid attacks from fellow candidates, but struggling to lay out plans on how to deal with Syria or Russia.

September 16, 2015
The Islamic State is building up infrastructure across territory its militants have captured in Iraq and Syria. Analysts say the group will become more entrenched among local populations if its governance goes unchallenged. (jihadology.net) **FILE**

Only ‘four or five’ U.S.-trained fighters in Syria

Only "four or five" U.S.-trained rebels are currently fighting in Syria, or thousands less than the Pentagon expected, the chief of the military campaign against the Islamic State told Congress on Wednesday as President Obama's war plans came under withering criticism from both Republicans and Democrats.

September 16, 2015
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said the Senate will keep debating the Iran nuclear deal and take votes Thursday. (Associated Press)

Mitch McConnell to force tough votes on Iran, 4 U.S. prisoners

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he'll force tough votes this week on whether senators back Iran over Israel and over four American prisoners still being held by the regime in Tehran as all sides scrambled for ways to stiffen the nuclear deal President Obama reached with the Islamic republic.

September 15, 2015
A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped in Granjeno, Texas, on June 25, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FIL E**

Democrats shift radically on illegal immigration as Republicans remain adamantly opposed

Democrats have become far more open to legalizing illegal immigrants over the last decade, while Republicans remain adamantly opposed, according to extensive new polling by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that helps explain the rise of businessman Donald Trump within the GOP presidential field and the dim hopes for getting anything done in Congress.

September 15, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at Uncle Nancy's Coffee House, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

John Cornyn calls for special counsel to investigate Clinton emails

A top Republican called Tuesday for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to name a special prosecutor to oversee the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, saying Americans need greater assurance that any wrongdoing will be investigated without fear of political influence from President Obama and his team.

September 15, 2015
Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department employee who helped set up and maintain a private email server used by Hillary Rodham Clinton, departs Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 10, 2015, to give his deposition to a House panel on the Benghazi investigation. Pagliano will assert his constitutional right not to testify before any congressional committees, his lawyer says. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Senators seek ways to get Pagliano to talk about Clinton emails

Two top senators asked the Justice Department on Monday to reveal whether it has opened an investigation involving Bryan Pagliano, the tech worker who assisted former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in setting up her email server, as Congress continues to try to find ways of learning what he knows.

September 14, 2015
Syrian refugees sleep inside a greenhouse at a makeshift camp near Roszke, Hungary, on Sunday. The U.S. and many European countries are facing internal political pressures regarding the influx of migrants, seen by many right-wing fringe groups as suspect or even extremists. (Associated Press)

Syria refugee crisis a no-win for Obama

Human rights groups say President Obama's opening bid of accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees next year is far too timid in the face of the humanitarian catastrophe playing out in the Middle East, and even his own party colleagues in Congress are preparing to raise him tenfold, calling for the U.S. to take in 100,000 Syrians.

September 13, 2015
Republican presidential candidate and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks at the Defending the American Dream summit hosted by Americans for Prosperity at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 22, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Rick Perry to suspend 2016 GOP presidential campaign

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is suspending his campaign to win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, announcing the decision in a speech to the Eagle Forum in St. Louis on Friday afternoon.

September 11, 2015