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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greats the crowd at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, in Des Moines. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Donald Trump immigration plan wins praise from GOP hardliners

Donald Trump's immigration plan has won widespread backing from conservatives in the hours since he announced it, sparked stern condemnation from immigrant-rights activists -- and instantly reshaped a policy debate that's raged for more than a decade.

August 17, 2015
Crystal A. Diaz, a U.S. Border Patrol agent with the Tucson Sector in Arizona, rides her ATV while on patrol. (AP Photo/U.S. Border Patrol)

Border braces as number of illegals swells

The number of illegal immigrant mothers and children jumping the Southwest border swelled in July, according to new Border Patrol statistics that suggest last year's surge could be repeating.

August 17, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton answers reporters questions about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after announcing her college affordability plan at the high school in Exeter, N.H., on Aug. 10, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Hillary Clinton aides had other unreported email accounts: State Dept.

Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's top aides, used personal email accounts to conduct government business in addition to a State Department email and an account on the controversial server Mrs. Clinton kept at her New York home, the State Department confirmed to a federal court Friday.

August 14, 2015
A man applying for a U.S. visa holds his U.S. Department of State forms and Cuban passport as he waits in line outside the U.S. Interests Section in Havana on July 1, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

State Department employee sentenced for selling visas at up to $70K

A State Department employee who sold U.S. visas on the black market in Vietnam for up to $70,000 a pop was sentenced Friday to 64 months in prison, after a scam authorities said allows hundreds of travelers who had previously been denied entry to sneak into the U.S.

August 14, 2015
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with the media in Phoenix on Jan. 9, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Appeals court rejects Arpaio challenge to Obama deportation amnesty

Sheriff Joe Arpaio can't sue the Obama administration to stop the president's deportation amnesty, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decision saying it was too tenuous to try to argue that the amnesty will entice other illegal immigrants to try to make the crossing.

August 14, 2015
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2015, file photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks during an interview with The Associated about the CIA torture report, in her Capitol Hill office in Washington. Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity. The Senate Intelligence Committee has included the requirement in a broader intelligence bill. The House didn’t include a similar provision in its bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Feinstein defends Hillary Clinton on classified emails

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, rose to the defense of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying Thursday there is no evidence she herself sent classified information and that the emails now under scrutiny were not marked classified at the time she sent them.

August 13, 2015
The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington is seen here on March 22, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

IRS cuts cyber-hack victims a break

At least some good news for the millions who have had their personal information stolen in cyberattacks -- the IRS said Thursday that the free credit monitoring the government and companies are offering victims doesn't count as taxable income.

August 13, 2015
President Obama speaks Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama amnesty chaotic, but no intent to flout judge, IG audit says

Immigration officials didn't intend to flout a federal judge when they broke his order halting President Obama's new amnesty, but the agency's process is so gummed up that it doesn't even know how many erroneous three-year amnesties it issued, an inspector general said in a new report Thursday.

August 13, 2015
People kayak in the Animas River near Durango, Colo., on Aug. 6, 2015, in water colored from a mine waste spill. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that a cleanup team was working with heavy equipment Wednesday to secure an entrance to the Gold King Mine. Workers instead released an estimated 1 million gallons of mine waste into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River. (Jerry McBride/The Durango Herald via Associated Press)

Indians say EPA trying to swindle them in mine spill

The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency's Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration's public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways.

August 12, 2015