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In this Monday, July 23, 2018, file photo, Immigrant seeking asylum Ildra Medreano wears an ankle monitor at a Catholic Charities facility not long after she was reunited with her son in San Antonio. Federal authorities' shift away from separating immigrant families crossing into the U.S. illegally now means that many parents and children are quickly released from custody only to be fitted with electronic monitoring devices, a practice that has spiked in recent years but which both the government and advocacy groups oppose for different reasons. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

As more immigrants wear monitors, effectiveness is disputed

Federal authorities’ shift away from separating immigrant families caught in the U.S. illegally now means that many parents and chi ...

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President Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Judge deals blow to Trump effort to overhaul bureaucracy

U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Trump had "exceeded his authority" in issuing the orders.

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In this AP file photo, Michael Cohen, an attorney for President-elect Donald Trump, arrives in Trump Tower in New York, Friday, Dec. 16, 2016. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)

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Money and loyalty: A look inside dramatic Trump-Cohen rift

For Michael Cohen and Donald Trump, it's always been about money and loyalty.

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Demonstrators gather outside the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting to protest the use of

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DNC votes to largely strip ‘superdelegates’ of presidential nominating power

DNC members voted on a proposal to take away the role of elected officials and other party dignitaries in selecting a nominee at the Democratic convention

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FILE - In this Monday, June 18, 2018, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump will be in Las Vegas on Saturday, June 23, 2018, to headline the Nevada Republican Party's annual convention and appear at a fundraiser with Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller, Nevada officials confirmed Monday, June 18. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Fact check: Trump’s alternate-reality week

Here is a look at some of President Trump's rhetoric over the past week.

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A car is stuck partially submerged in floodwaters from Hurricane Lane rainfall on the Big Island on Wednesday in Hilo, Hawaii.

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Floods hit Big Island as other parts of Hawaii brace for hurricane

The National Weather Service said "extreme flooding" was happening on Hawaii's Big Island

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Education

Education Dept. proposals on guns in schools sparks outcry

he Education Department says it is weighing whether to allow states to use federal funds to purchase guns for schools

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In this Jan. 31, 2014 photo, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape & Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. The Aug. 21, 2018 plea deal reached by Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has laid bare a relationship between the president and Pecker, whose company publishes the National Enquirer. Besides detailing tabloid's involvement in payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal to keep quiet about alleged affairs with Trump, court papers showed how David Pecker, a longtime friend of the president, offered to help Trump stave off negative stories during the 2016 campaign. (Marion Curtis via AP)

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National Enquirer kept safe with damaging Trump stories

The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired back at President Trump Thursday after more criticism about his handling of the Justice Department.

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Sessions rebukes Trump with vow Justice Department won’t be swayed by politics

Attorney General Jeff Sessions answered needling by President Trump on Thursday with a vow that as long as he runs the Justice Department, it won't be swayed by politics.

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From l-r., Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Rep. Mike Bishop, R-Mich., meet with reporters to announce the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the tax code for individuals and corporations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017.

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The Conversation

Today’s GOP leaders have little in common with those who resisted Nixon

Today’s GOP leaders, with few exceptions, meekly follow President Trump.

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President Donald Trump speaks to the media on Tuesday in Charleston, W.Va., shortly after the guilty plea of his former lawyer Michael Cohen on campaign finance violations, among other charges, and the guilty verdict against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

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Fact check: Trump’s misguided defense of Cohen payments

Fox & Friends was the natural venue for President Trump to strike back against Michael Cohen.

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In this Tuesday, July 3, 2018, photo, a Pakistani recruit, 22, who was recently discharged from the U.S. Army, holds an American flag as he poses for a picture. The Army said in court documents it has reinstated more than 30 immigrant recruits and reservists whose contracts had been terminated. (Mike Knaak/AP)

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Army reinstates dozens of discharged immigrant recruits and reservists

The U.S. Army has reinstated more than 30 recruits it had forcibly discharged.

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A seawall, which will be increased in size, is shown along the banks near downtown Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Port Arthur, Texas. The oil industry wants the government to help protect some of its facilities on the Texas Gulf Coast against the effects of global warming. One proposal involves building a nearly 60-mile “spine” of flood barriers to shield refineries and chemical plants. Many Republicans argue that such projects should be a national priority. But others question whether taxpayers should have to protect refineries in a state where top politicians still dispute whether climate change is real. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)

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Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change

An ambitious proposal would build a nearly 60-mile "spine" of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Texas Gulf Coast.

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