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An annually released report by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that that illegal population living in the U.S. has risen nearly two million in two years, now standing at about 14.3 million illegal aliens. FAIR analysts fault the increase in illegal aliens to an unsecured southern border, growing sanctuary city policies, widespread available U.S.

WASHINGTON — Democrats moved assertively Monday to increase political pressure on the White House and congressional Republicans to furnish documentation about explosive allegations that President Donald Trump sought to pressure the Ukrainian president to help produce damaging information on a leading political rival. In the House, where the revelations about a conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, were fueling new calls for impeachment, the chairmen of three committees investigating the matter threatened to issue subpoenas in the coming da

The Democratic National Committee is increasing the polling and fundraising requirements for presidential candidates to qualify for the campaign’s fifth debate in November. But the increases are not as steep as the increases from the first and second debates during the summer to the third and fourth debates after Labor Day. To make the November stage, candidates must have at least 165,000 unique donors across at least 20 states.

Democrats are finding it harder to ignore the growing calls for beginning impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The latest calls for an inquiry are related to recent revelations that Trump pressured the leader of Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

WASHINGTON — President Trump claimed Monday that he deserves a Nobel Prize for ‘‘a lot of things’’ but complained that the committee that hands out the awards does so unfairly. The comment came during a bilateral meeting in New York with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan after Trump said he was ‘‘ready, willing and able’’ to mediate between India and Pakistan in a decades-old dispute over the territory of Kashmir. ‘‘If you can solve this outstanding issue of Kashmir, very likely and definitely you’ll be deserving a Nobel Prize,’’ a Pakistani journalist told Tr

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials. Officials at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) relayed Trump’s order to the State Department and the Pentagon during an interagency meeting in mid-July, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity t

MORE's dealings with Ukraine to be investigated amid reports of a whistleblower who is said to have raised concerns about the president's interaction with a foreign leader who may have been Ukraine's president. "Now the Fake News Media says I 'pressured the Ukrainian President at least 8 times during my telephone call with him.' This supposedly comes from a so-called 'whistleblower' who they say doesn’t even have a first hand account of what was said," the president tweeted Sunday evening. "Breaking News: The Ukrainian Government just said they weren’t pressured at al

Sen. MORE. “If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme.

MORE and the whistleblower who reportedly raised concerns about the president's interaction with a foreign leader said to be the president of Ukraine. Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump again defended his conduct during the call with Ukraine.