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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks to the Associated Press in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 13, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Nancy Pelosi: ‘I support the sanctuary’

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she supports San Francisco's sanctuary city policy even after authorities say it may have directly led to the murder of a young woman in the city earlier this month.

July 16, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials in Las Vegas on June 18, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Hispanics already in Democratic corner for 2016

Hispanic voters remain firmly entrenched in the Democratic camp, according to a new survey released Thursday that found them favorable toward President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and skeptical of Republicans -- though largely unfamiliar with the GOP presidential field.

July 16, 2015
Donald Trump answers questions surrounding his bid for the U.S. presidency in Albemarle House, a property of his outside of Charlottesville, Va., Tuesday, July 14, 2015. (P. Kevin Morley/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) ** FILE **

Donald Trump: Net worth more than ‘TEN BILLION DOLLARS’

Donald Trump earned more than $200 million from NBC for his 14 seasons of "The Apprentice," he reported in new federal financial disclosure forms filed with the government Wednesday as part of his presidential campaign.

July 15, 2015
Liz Sullivan (left) and Jim Steinle, parents of Kathryn Steinle, talk to members of the media outside their home in Pleasanton, Calif., on July 2, 2015. Kathryn Steinle was shot to death, apparently at random, while walking with her father and a friend along a popular pedestrian pier on the San Francisco waterfront on July 1. The woman was shot Wednesday evening at Pier 14 and died at a hospital. (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Associated Press)

DHS says it has contacted family of Kathryn Steinle, S.F. victim

Immigration officials did contact the family of Kathryn Steinle to offer their condolences on her murder, the Homeland Security Department said in a statement Wednesday, a day after Secretary Jeh Johnson said he wasn't aware of whether any contact had been made.

July 15, 2015
Democratic presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley is eager to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton on the debate stage and to strengthen his national name recognition, but he will have to wait for the Democratic National Committee to schedule candidate face-offs. (Associated Press/File)

Martin O’Malley: Give health care to illegals

Democratic presidential candidate Martin O'Malley's new immigration plan would extend Obamacare privileges to illegal immigrants, including those here under President Obama's deportation amnesty, allowing them to use their own money to buy in the health exchanges.

July 15, 2015
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson declined to criticize sanctuary cities and told Congress not to try to pass laws forcing cooperation, saying it could conflict with the Constitution, and it won't win over the hearts of reluctant communities. (Associated Press)

Sanctuary cities beyond federal control, DHS chief Jeh Johnson admits

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson admitted Tuesday that the administration goofed in releasing an illegal immigrant to sanctuary city San Francisco ahead of a shocking murder earlier this month, but said there's little the government can do to pressure sanctuary communities to change their minds.

July 14, 2015
President Barack Obama, standing with Vice President Joe Biden, delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 14, 2015, after an Iran nuclear deal is reached. After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, diplomats Tuesday declared that world powers and Iran had struck a landmark deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Congress unlikely to stop Iran deal

Congress will get 60 days to review the Iran nuclear agreement, and it's no sure thing lawmakers will accept the deal the administration struck -- though President Obama will still likely get his way in the end.

July 14, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to local residents during a campaign stop at the Iowa City Public Library in Iowa City, Iowa, on July 7, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump: Hillary Clinton ‘desperate,’ ‘sad’

GOP presidential candidate Doland Trump on Tuesday called Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton 'desperate' after the former first lady attacked him for his comments over Mexico and illegal immigrants.

July 14, 2015
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in New Jersey take a person into custody on March 28, 2012, during Operation Cross Check III. (Associated Press/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) **FILE**

Hundreds of released illegals convicted of kidnapping, homicide

More than 1,000 of the criminal aliens immigration authorities released into the community while awaiting deportation in 2014 were then convicted of still more crimes ranging from kidnapping and sexual assault against a child to vehicular homicide, according to statistics released Tuesday.

July 14, 2015
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee from an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early-morning raids on March 3. (Associated Press)

Victims of illegal immigrants’ crimes to testify to Congress

Those who have suffered at the hands of illegal immigrants have been invited to testify to the Senate next week on the crimes they or their families faced, as GOP lawmakers in Congress try to refocus the immigration debate away from legalization and toward enforcement.

July 13, 2015
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks in the garden of Coburg where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Sunday July 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran plans major celebration over nuclear deal

Iran is already making preparations for a major celebration declaring the looming nuclear deal a success for the Islamic Republic, Iranian news agencies reported Monday as negotiators met in Vienna to work out final details.

July 13, 2015
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this May 20, 2013, file photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sanctuary cities policy in GOP cross-hairs

Seeking to shift the immigration debate's focus to the victims of criminal aliens, Republicans this week vowed to punish states that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities in deporting illegal immigrants.

July 9, 2015
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the stark number of missed contraband items looked bad "out of context," but said the tests were important in trying to advance TSA's mission. (Associated Press)

Illegals refuse to give up three-year amnesties

The Homeland Security Department is predictably having a devil of a time trying to get illegal immigrants to send back their three-year amnesty approvals, administration lawyers said as they admitted to a federal judge Thursday, saying that more than 40 percent of them remain outstanding.

July 9, 2015
Former Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta (Associated Press) **FILE**

Fed data hack reached staggering 21 million

Federal officials acknowledged Thursday that hackers managed to steal information on more than 21 million Americans from the government's background check computers, including details of their health and financial histories, as the shocking outlines of the breach finally became clear.

July 9, 2015
In this June 28, 2015, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, to talk about the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress pulls bill amid Confederate flag fight

South Carolina will pull the Confederate battle flag down from a Statehouse memorial Friday, but the national debate over the flag showed no sign of waning as Democrats in Washington, sensing momentum, moved to furl state flags at the Capitol that still include Confederate symbols.

July 9, 2015