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The legislation is an attempt to enlist the aid of states in efforts to enforce immigration at the border, and remove illegal immigrants that Sessions says are too easily entering and staying in the country. (AP Photo)

GOP senators: Let states enforce immigration laws

Elizabeth Potter · June 24, 2015 1:29 pm

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., agreed to hold a hearing on the Yoder bill, but he is not a co-sponsor and has not scheduled panel consideration of the measure. (AP Photo)

Lawmaker: Obama’s next phase on immigration ‘permits the release of criminal aliens’

Elizabeth Potter · June 23, 2015 8:10 pm

Rand Paul PAC zings Jeb with ‘Bailout Bush’ ad

Rand Paul PAC zings Jeb with ‘Bailout Bush’ ad

Elizabeth Potter · June 22, 2015 9:01 pm

Watch: John Oliver says Confederate flag a symbol for ‘the worst people in the world’

Watch: John Oliver says Confederate flag a symbol for ‘the worst people in the world’

Elizabeth Potter · June 22, 2015 8:17 pm

A missile is displayed at an exhibition on the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war at a park in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s Parliament rejects foreign access to military sites

Elizabeth Potter · June 22, 2015 6:02 pm

MSNBC roasts White House for downplaying Gruber’s role in Obamacare

MSNBC roasts White House for downplaying Gruber’s role in Obamacare

Elizabeth Potter · June 22, 2015 4:23 pm

A police officer stands next to a statue memorializing the Confederacy as it's taped off and its base covered by a tarp after police said someone spray-painted the message "Black Lives Matter" several days after a shooting at a historic black church Sunday, June 21, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. The pedestal's permanent inscription is "To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

‘Black lives matter’: Confederate memorial vandalized after Charleston shooting

Elizabeth Potter · June 22, 2015 3:00 pm

Nadine Collier, left, the daughter of Ethel Lance, one of the nine people killed in Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church, speaks to the media about her mother following the bond hearing for the suspected gunman Friday, June 19, 2015, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Arizona sheriff ramps up police protection for black churches

Elizabeth Potter · June 19, 2015 9:53 pm

Derek Martinez listens during a ceremony to receive a citizenship certificate at the Bronx Zoo, Tuesday, May 26, 2015, in New York. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

House Dems celebrate third anniversary of Obama’s unilateral immigration move

Elizabeth Potter · June 19, 2015 8:35 pm

Ted Cruz hold moment of silence for victims of church shooting

Ted Cruz hold moment of silence for victims of church shooting

Elizabeth Potter · June 18, 2015 8:24 pm

Â In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2012, file photo, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, right, talks to a supporter during a break in a hearing protesting his re-election in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo)Â

Pastor who was killed in Charleston Church ‘an advocate for the people’

Elizabeth Potter · June 18, 2015 5:20 pm

A resident of Charleston, S.C., kneels at a makeshift memorial down the street from where a white man opened fire Wednesday night during a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church killing several people in Charleston, Thursday, June 18, 2015. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Pastor says Charleston church murder may be attack on Christianity

Elizabeth Potter · June 18, 2015 4:17 pm