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The president has proposed allowing US manufacturers to sell large batches of firearms to other countries without consulting Congress.  A delegation of 25 members of Congress visited a US Customs and Border Protection center in McAllen, Texas.  Brownsville’s mayor and other leaders said the turmoil President Trump refers to is largely fiction.  The White House press secretary was booted from a restaurant about three hours from Washington because, she said, she works for President Trump.

The president has proposed allowing US manufacturers to sell large batches of firearms to other countries without consulting Congress.  A delegation of 25 members of Congress visited a US Customs and Border Protection center in McAllen, Texas.  Brownsville’s mayor and other leaders said the turmoil President Trump refers to is largely fiction.  The White House press secretary was booted from a restaurant about three hours from Washington because, she said, she works for President Trump.

The president has proposed allowing US manufacturers to sell large batches of firearms to other countries without consulting Congress.  A delegation of 25 members of Congress visited a US Customs and Border Protection center in McAllen, Texas.  Brownsville’s mayor and other leaders said the turmoil President Trump refers to is largely fiction.  The White House press secretary was booted from a restaurant about three hours from Washington because, she said, she works for President Trump.

House GOP leaders plan to move forward with a compromise immigration bill next week despite a Friday morning tweet from MORE saying he thinks Republicans should hold off on immigration until after the midterm elections. Trump said Republicans should "stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November," dealing a setback to lawmakers who were looking to get the president's support befo

A Democratic lawmaker was shut down on the floor of the House on Friday after playing an audio recording of crying children who were separated from their families at the southern border. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said the American people should hear the recording, which was obtained by ProPublica. "Imagine being ripped away from your mother or father and not knowing if you're ever going to see them again, and then being placed in a detention facility with strangers.

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that law enforcement in most cases has to obtain a warrant in order to search and seize long-term cell phone records that would show a person's location. In a 5-4 ruling, the court held that the Fourth Amendment's protections against an unreasonable search protects people from having the government acquire their cell-site records from wireless providers in run-of-the-mill criminal investigations. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's four liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, to make up t

MORE on Friday may have doomed the chances for a House GOP immigration bill after urging Republican lawmakers to abandon the compromise effort they have been working on for weeks. The legislation was already on life support, with party leaders deciding on Thursday to postpone a vote to the following day as they struggled to garner enough support for the measure. But Trump likely put the nail in the coffin, telling Republicans they should “stop wasting their time” on the divisive issue. “Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect mo

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