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During an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Cuccinelli said despite a delay of mass deportations by President Trump two weeks ago, ICE agents are ready to detain and deport the roughly one million illegal aliens who have been ordered deported from the country. Cuccinelli said: Cuccinelli said mass deportations by ICE of illegal aliens with final deportation orders “should be going on on a rolling basis” and blamed “the politics of Washington” for inte

Judge Michael Kemp in the Grant Ronnebeck murder trial ruled that 34-year-old illegal alien Apolinar Altamirano, an alleged self-proclaimed member of the Sinaloa Cartel, is ineligible for the death penalty because he is intellectually disabled, the Associated Press reports. Kemp said that Altamirano only has a fifth-grade education and was unable to obtain special educat

Former vice president Joe Biden said Friday that he had not been prepared for Senator Kamala Harris to so pointedly question his record on school busing during the first Democratic debates, extending the dispute between the two presidential candidates, who have sparred repeatedly in the week since their high-profile confrontation. In an interview broadcast Friday morning on CNN, Biden said that while he had expected candidates to target him, he had been caught off guard by Harris’s criticism in part because of their relationship. “I was prepared for them to come

PROVINCETOWN — With supporters sporting handheld paper fans, signs, and shirts reading “Pete Town,” Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made his presidential pitch to locals and out-of-town visitors at a town hall event Friday afternoon. Hundreds of people attended the event held at Provincetown Town Hall. Buttigieg — one of the top-polling candidates in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary — fielded questions from audience members that focused on issues like climate change, improving the lives of LGBTQ individuals, and attacking Preside

As Representative Seth Moulton spent the Fourth of July shaking hands in Nevada in an attempt to drum up support for his presidential campaign, a city councilor in his Massachusetts congressional district put the finishing touches on her announcement to take him on in the Democratic primary next September. Lisa Peterson, a financial planner who was first elected to the Salem City Council in 2017, will announce Monday in a video that she intends to battle Moulton for the nomination in the district, which includes the North Shore and parts of Essex and Middlesex counties.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrats in the early presidential contest states of Iowa and Nevada will be able to cast their votes over the telephone instead of showing up at their states’ traditional neighborhood caucus meetings next February, according to plans unveiled by the state parties. The tele-caucus systems, the result of a mandate from the Democratic National Committee, are aimed at opening the local-level political gatherings to more people, especially evening shift-workers and people with disabilities, whom critics of the caucuses have long said are blocked from the proc

NEW YORK — A federal grand jury in New York is investigating top Republican fund-raiser Elliott Broidy, examining whether he used his position as vice chair of President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee to drum up business deals with foreign leaders, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press and people familiar with the matter. A wide-ranging subpoena the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn recently sent to Trump’s inaugural committee seeks records relating to 20 individuals and businesses.

Former Vice President MORE apologized Saturday for his recent remarks about his ability to work with segregationists during his time as a Senator. The remarks are his first mea culpa over the comments this campaign cycle. The White House hopeful maintained he had done the right thing by working across the aisle with people whose views he found “repugnant,” but apologized if he gave the impression he was praising the senators. “Everything they stood for offended me. They represented everything that I ran against.” Biden said in Sumter, S.C.

MORE told reporters on Friday that he is considering an executive order to ensure a citizenship question is included on the U.S. census. Trump told reporters on the White House lawn that he has four or five options and is "thinking about" an executive order.

MORE is rolling into a post-Independence Day weekend at his Bedminster, N.J., property with reason to feel good about himself and his reelection prospects for 2020. A number of things are going Trump’s way, leaving him better positioned for victory in a second term. The first is the economy, which is showing little sign of slowing down. The monthly employment report issued Friday showed the economy gained 224,000 jobs in June.