Article snippet: President Trump and lawmakers searched anxiously Tuesday for a way to end the policy of separating families after illegal border crossings. A dispiriting 27 percent of the country supports the so-called zero-tolerance policy that has led to a sudden, dramatic increase in families being separated at the southern border. Governor Andrew Cuomo said at least 70 children who were separated from their parents are currently being housed in New York facilities that have contracts with the federal government. Trump envoy Nikki Haley says the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it “not worthy of its name.” Joe Hagin, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, has served in every Republican White House since the Reagan administration. Both the Republican-led House and Senate VA committees requested briefings from VA officials following the investigative report by the Globe and USA Today. The Cannabis Control Commission will vote Thursday on whether to issue a license to a cultivation facility in Milford. Calls are mounting on Capitol Hill for the Trump administration to end the separation of families at the southern border ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss legislation. The civil lawsuit expands the legal trouble for Bryon Hefner, but marks the first court action taken against former Senate President Stanley Rosenberg. President Trump would seriously consider a stand-alone bil... Link to the full article to read more