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“HUGE CENSUS NEWS — the Government just advised that the decision has been made to print the the census questionnaire WITHOUT the citizenship question. We won,” Daniel Jacobson wrote on Twitter, before sharing a screenshot of the email from Department of Justice trial attorney Kate Bailey confirming the news. The development comes after the Supreme Court last Thursday kept the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the census for now.

He was only found guilty on one count related to taking a photo of the ISIS fighter’s corpse, which carries a maximum sentence of four months. As Gallagher has already served nine months in pre-trial confinement, he will not serve any time in jail at all, his lawyer Tim Parlatore said. “Suffice it to say — huge victory.

After a night of few fireworks Wednesday, tension over the issues of race boiled over to the forefront during Thursday night’s Democratic primary debate. Senator Kamala Harris challenged former vice president Joe Biden over his record on civil rights issues in the Senate in the 1970s. “I do not believe you are a racist and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground,” she said.

MIAMI — As her fellow Democrats talked over one another amid a discussion of race and policing, Senator Kamala Harris interrupted and told the moderators of Thursday night’s presidential debate that she’d like to speak “as the only black person on stage.” Then she delivered a powerful blow to the field’s front-runner, former vice president Joe Biden — just one of many attacks the 76-year-old would endure throughout the course of a night that raised doubts about the stability of his spot on the top of the polls. Harris sharply criticized Biden’s record on race, b

(Bloomberg) -- Former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination has shrunk by 10 percentage points in a CNN poll conducted since last week’s debates that showed Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren getting significant bumps in support. The poll of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents found Biden drew support from 22%, compared with 32% a month ago, while Harris and Warren, who both delivered strong performances in the debate, drew 17% and 15% respectively.

WASHINGTON — The House filed a lawsuit Tuesday to force the Treasury Department to turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns, escalating a fight with an administration that has repeatedly dismissed as illegitimate the Democrats’ attempt to obtain Trump’s financial records. The lawsuit moves the dispute into federal courts after months of sniping between the Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee, which requested and then subpoenaed the returns, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

A government watchdog is warning of dangerous conditions inside migrant detention facilities in Texas, releasing photos of the conditions inside the centers that show a crush of people inside cells, some begging for help. “We encourage the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take immediate steps to alleviate dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults in the Rio Grande Valley,” the Office of the Inspector General said in a letter to DHS officials. The

MORE said Monday he's looking “very strongly” at delaying the 2020 census if the administration is not allowed to add a citizenship question, an unprecedented move that would surely trigger new legal challenges. “We’re looking at that,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked about a delay. “So you can ask other things, but you can’t ask whether or not somebody is a citizen? So we are trying to do that.

MORE said Monday that delayed immigration raids will begin after the July 4 holiday. The president made the announcement in the Oval Office while signing legislation providing $4.6 billion in funding to address the influx of migrants from Central America at the southern border.  “After July 4, a lot of people are going to be brought back out,” Trump told reporters. Trump said late last month he was temporarily delaying the sweeping raids and told Congress

Sen. MORE (D-Mass.) to rank third in the Democratic field after the first primary debate last week, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll. The survey, which was conducted between June 29 and 30 among 449 registered voters, found that 11 percent of possible Democratic primary voters chose Harris as their first choice for president, compared to 9 percent of those who favored Warren. This marks a 6-point bump for Harris from when an identical poll was conducted two weeks ago.