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WASHINGTON — President Trump embraced a proposal on Wednesday to slash legal immigration to the United States in half within a decade by sharply curtailing the ability of American citizens and legal residents to bring family members into the country. The plan would enact the most far-reaching changes to the system of legal immigration in decades and represents the president’s latest effort to stem the flow of newcomers to the United States.

The New York Times story published on Tuesday cited an "internal announcement to the ABC News' Mike Levine contributed to this report.

Newly appointed White House Jeff Sessions on Saturday to reassure him of his job security, a senior level source familiar with the situation told ABC News. The news of the conversation between Kelly and Sessions was first reported Wednesday by The Associated Press.

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President Capitol Hill to present the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act, dubbed “RAISE.” The bill aims to prioritize workers’ skills over family ties, and amounts to the “most significant reform to our immigration system in half a century,” Trump said. The goal of the bill would be to knock down the number of legal immigrants admitted into the U.S.

While Senate Republicans’ efforts to overhaul the health care system failed last week, lawmakers are still working on short-term reforms, most notably to keep insurance premiums from skyrocketing next year. Led by Chairman the Senate Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee, which oversees health policy, will begin holding bipartisan hearings in September on strengthening the individual health insurance market in the very near term. “If your house is on fire, you want to put out the fire, and the fire in this cas

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that two phone calls President Donald Trump spoke publicly about receiving — from the head of the Boy Scouts and the president of Mexico — were not fabricated but instead took place in person. ‘‘The conversations took place,’’ Sanders told reporters at a White House briefing. ‘‘They just simply didn’t take place over a phone call. ...

Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories A proposal by President Trump’s administration would undo the Affordable Care Act’s five-year-old mandate for birth control coverage.  Two conversations President Trump spoke about — with the head of the Boy Scouts and the president of Mexico — were not fabricated, Sarah Sanders said.  White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller tore into CNN’s Jim Acosta without really engaging in substance.  Calling the current system broken, President Trump said the aim of the leg

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Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Governor Charlie Baker will attend a Republican Governors Association meeting for four days in Aspen, Colo., a spokesman said Friday.  CAPITAL SOURCE Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Wednesday endorsed Michael Kelley in the District 2 City Council race.  CAPITAL SOURCE On Monday, almost a year to the day after he was offered the running-mate spot, Kaine was back at One Beacon Street.