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September 25, 2017

Texas Gov. Abbott: Houston suffering 'once-in-a-lifetime flooding event'

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told Fox News' "Special Report with Bret Baier" Tuesday night that "it will be many more days before the water recedes" in Houston after Tropical Storm Harvey dropped record levels of rain on America's fourth-largest city.

September 19, 2017

Obama: Targeting Dreamers is 'wrong' and 'cruel'

Former President Barack Obama released a lengthy statement on Tuesday, criticizing President Trump's decision to end a program giving illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children a reprieve from deportation.

June 30, 2017

Republican state AGs threaten lawsuit if Trump doesn't end DACA

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and eight other state attorneys general, along with Republican Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, are urging the Trump administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Program.

June 21, 2017

Agency hands out federal cash in Alaska but does nothing to make sure it's spent properly

An obscure federal commission has funneled $47 million to 21 towns in Alaska but is doing little to oversee how the money, which came with strings attached intended to wean the recipients off of federal dependency, was spent.

April 11, 2017

Feds halt reports singling out local police over immigration enforcement

A widely criticized weekly report publicized by President Donald Trump's administration to showcase local police seen as uncooperative with immigration enforcement was suspended Tuesday after the administration acknowledged the report contained flawed data.

April 10, 2017

Federal judge again rules Texas voter ID law is discriminatory

Dealing Texas another rebuke over voting rights, a judge Monday again ruled that Republican lawmakers purposefully designed a strict voter ID law to disadvantage minorities and effectively dampen their growing electoral power.

March 28, 2017

Dem AGs vow to fight for Obama global warming plan after Trump energy order

New York State's Democratic attorney general vowed Tuesday that he would "oppose any effort" to roll back former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan after President Trump signed an executive order to suspend, rescind or flag for review more than a half-dozen measures in an effort to boost energy production from fossil fuels.

March 20, 2017

DHS names local jails that won't hold illegal immigrants

The Trump administration is naming some names in its efforts to shame local jails that don't cooperate with immigration authorities.

March 7, 2017

Justice Department wants appeal of Trump's old travel ban tossed

The U.S. Justice Department wants to dismiss its appeal of a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's initial travel ban.

March 7, 2017

The GOP governor who will be a thorn in Trump's side (it's not Kasich)

President Trump seems to have mended fences with most Republican governors, even hosting a cordial meeting last month with ‘never Trumper’ John Kasich of Ohio. But one GOP governor from the land of Bernie Sanders is emerging as the exception – threatening to cause turbulence for the president from the same side of the aisle.