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MORE as White House press secretary and presided over the end of the daily news briefing, will leave her post at the end of the month, Trump announced Thursday. Sanders’s departure caps off a tumultuous, two-year run as Trump’s top spokeswoman, marked by tensions with the press corps and questions about the White House’s credibility.

ICE agents last conducted a raid across Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin that resulted in the arrest of 140 illegal aliens, five of whom were women and the other 135 of whom were men. Almost a third of the illegal aliens arrested in the raid, 42 in total, had prior criminal records and convictions but continued to live illegally in the U.S. after serving time.

The claim that some FBI rank-and-file workers lost confidence in Comey following his infamous press conference announcing that no charges would be brought has been in dispute. Yet in largely unreported testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on December 21, 2017, McCabe confirmed that some FBI personnel were “surprised” and “frustrated” with the result of the Clinton email case as announced by Comey.

Ranking member Jordan, Government Operations subcommittee ranking member Meadows, and National Security subcommittee ranking member Hice, sent a letter, obtained by Breitbart News, to McAleenan on Thursday, requesting information regarding a DHS alert that Chinese-made drones could be “used to collect and exfiltrate sensitive data out of the United States.” According to a DHS alert, the three House conservatives said that Chinese-made unmanned aerial systems (UAS) [drones] “pose a ‘potential risk of an organization’s information.'” Jordan’s letter continues: The report did not

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will leave the White House at the end of June with plans to return to Arkansas. After announcing the news on Twitter, President Trump called Sanders up to the podium during a White House event in the East Room to thank her for her service. “She’s done an incredible job and we’ve been through a lot together and she’s tough, she’s good,” he said as the room applauded. “She’s a special person, a very, very fine woman.

Massachusetts voters really don’t like President Trump, but that doesn’t mean they want Democrats on Capitol Hill to try to impeach him. Sixty-one perecent of those surveyed in a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll viewed Trump unfavorably — far more than any of the other politicians included in the question. Just 30 percent held a favorable view of Trump. However, 49 percent of Mass. voters said the House of Representatives should not seriously consider impeaching Trump, according to the survey released Tuesday.

President Trump is showing off the red-white-and-blue paint job he’s demanded for new Air Force One jets, underscoring his determination to put his stamp on the presidential planes long known internationally for their sky blue-and-white exterior. “There’s your new Air Force One, and I’m doing this for other presidents, not for me,” Trump said as he held up a design in an interview with ABC News. He also boasted he got “$1.6 billion” off the price of the project. The Air Force has said negotiations that Trump led with Boeing Co.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s assertion that he would be open to accepting a foreign power’s help in his 2020 campaign ricocheted through Washington on Thursday, with Democrats condemning it as a call for further election interference and Republicans struggling to defend his comments. Trump seemed to dismiss the threat posed by Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, one that led to sweeping indictments by special counsel Robert Mueller, and his incendiary remarks come as congressional investigations into the meddling have quickened. Asked by AB

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular press briefings and questions about the administration’s credibility, as well as her own, will leave her post at the end of the month, President Trump announced Thursday. Trump, calling Sanders forward at an unrelated event in the East Room, called her ‘‘a warrior’’ and said he was encouraging her to run for governor as she returns home to Arkansas.

WASHINGTON — The Democratic National Committee announced Thursday that 20 candidates have qualified for the party’s first presidential debates later this month. Representative Seth Moulton, the Salem Democrat, and Montana Governor Steve Bullock were the only major candidates who failed to meet the polling or grass-roots fundraising measures required to get a debate spot. US Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who recently had been on the bubble, both made the cut based on polling measures. The campaign’s opening deb