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The Supreme Court has repeatedly come to MORE’s aid over the border, bolstering his efforts to build a wall and turn aside migrants seeking asylum on the southern border. The latest example came Wednesday night, when the court issued an unsigned order allowing the administration’s stringent new asylum policy to remain in place while battles over its legality continue. The new rule is essentially a blanket rejection of asylum-seekers who pass through Mexico before arriving at the southern border, denying entrance to almost all Central American migrants, who make up the

For several members of the House, the gun violence epidemic is personal.

The dynamic came into full view this week as the House Judiciary Committee engaged in an emotional debate over legislation to ban high-capacity magazines and prevent potentially dangerous people from having guns following a string of mass shootings this summer.

Two Democrats on the committee have lost family members to gun violence. And three others represent districts where their constituents were gunned down in recent high-profile mass shootings.

The Republican-led Senate confirmed Trump’s 150th judicial nominee on Wednesday– a significant milestone that continues to fill one of the president’s key campaign promises of putting Constitutional conservative judges in the courts. According to the Washington Times: The Times notes that Trump’s judicial confirmations surpass those of Obama’s– “who only saw 20 circuit court nominees and 74 district court judges confirmed during the same period of time.” Trump celebrat

The former First Lady is scheduled to appear at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, for the November 3 event “A Moderated Conversation with Michelle Obama”: The most expensive ticket is listed for $4,200, giving the attendee a “suite-level ducat,” according to the New York Post. Meet and greet tickets are selling for $2,500.

A video surfaced Saturday evening showing the far-left “Squad” member speaking to a group and comparing migrant shelters in the U.S.

The socialist senator told a group that, under a Sanders administration, the U.S. would cease ICE raids and deportations. “We’re gonna end the ICE raids which are terrorizing communities all across this country,” Sanders said. “We are gonna impose a moratorium on deportations,” he continued. “There are some things that a president can do with executive orders.” The latter is a new policy position, according to a senior policy adviser who spoke to CNN’s Annie Grayer: Sanders also told the group that Medicare for All and free college would extend to individuals residing in the U.S.

HOUSTON — The leading Democratic presidential candidates split sharply over the issue of health care in a debate Thursday night, exposing the gulf between former vice president Joe Biden’s careful moderate politics and the transformational liberal ambitions of Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Biden, facing all of his closest competitors for the first time in a debate, quickly took the initiative to challenge Warren and Sanders for supporting a “Medicare for All”-style health care system that would displace the existing forms of privat

WASHINGTON — Ten Democrats seeking the presidency sparred Thursday night in a sprawling debate that put all qualifying contenders on the same stage for the first time. Here’s a look at how some of their claims from Houston stack up with the facts: Joe Biden: ‘‘We didn’t lock people up in cages, we didn’t separate families.’’ THE FACTS: His comment about cages is wrong. The ‘‘cages’’ — chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants have been temporarily housed, separated by sex and age — were built and used by the Obama a

Beto O’Rourke has already backed mandatory buybacks for assault weapons, but at Thursday’s Democratic debate, he left no ambiguity about what that would mean. ‘‘Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,’’ he said. Less than an hour later, O’Rourke received what he described as a ‘‘death threat’’ from a fellow Texas politician.