President Trump is planning to sign an executive order to allow children to stay with parents caught crossing the border illegally -- a step that could avoid the ...

Protesters chanted "end family separation" at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as she dined at a Mexican restaurant in Washington, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he would be signing an executive order later Wednesday that would end the process of separating children ...

President Trump would support a narrow legislative fix specifically aimed at halting his administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents.

It will take more than the cries of babies to make President Donald Trump back down on immigration, an issue that has animated his most ardent political ...

The policy is unpopular, and vulnerable Republicans in competitive districts stand to be punished by voters in the midterms if this continues much longer.

It has taken the administration only 18 months to destroy our immigration policy's foundation of equal treatment and family integrity. It may well take years to undo ...

The family separation policy is bringing up once again a question for Democrats: How should they react to Republicans who break with President Donald Trump ...

The Trump administration issued a final rule making it easier for small businesses to band together and offer insurance that is exempt from many requirements of ...

The Trump administration issued new rules on Tuesday that will help small businesses and self-employed people get health insurance that costs less because it ...

Washington notoriously accomplishes little during the summer months but the Department of Labor's refreshing AHP rule is a rare exception.

In a bid to revive the Republican effort to roll back the Affordable Care Act, a group of leading conservative healthcare advocates is proposing a new strategy to ...

Police shot and killed a 17-year-old boy who fled from them near Pittsburgh Tuesday after he was pulled over in a car believed to have been connected to an ...

A 17-year-old boy was shot three times by police and killed while fleeing from a car that was pulled over in East Pittsburgh following a reported shooting in North ...

The teenager was running away from a traffic stop on Tuesday night where the driver was arrested.

Police say officers in East Pittsburgh pulled over a car Tuesday believed to have been involved in a prior shooting.

For President Trump's senior adviser, the public outrage and anger elicited by policies like forced family separation are a feature, not a bug.

To understand what the Trump administration is thinking about separating families and locking kids up at the border, you have to understand Stephen Miller's ...

The New York Times says it agreed at the request of the White House not to use audio from an interview with President Trump's aide Stephen Miller for ...

The New York Times backed down from airing an interview on its podcast with White House adviser Stephen Miller Tuesday after host Michael Barbaro said ...

President Donald Trump heads to key midterm election state Minnesota on Wednesday trailed by one of the biggest crises of his presidency. The president ...

Trump had a historic victory in counties that were once a Democratic bastion – now he's aiming to help his allies do the same. Ben Jacobs in Pillager, Minnesota.

The Trump administration ratcheted up its criticism of China in a report released by the White House on Tuesday detailing its claims of "economic aggression" by ...

The White House has asserted the US has the whip hand in a tariff fight between the world's largest economies — with a senior economic adviser saying "it's ...

The Trump administration is dialing up its rhetoric against Chinese trade practices, accusing Beijing in a report released Tuesday of waging a systematic ...

Donald Trump loves to hate on the US-China trade deficit. Ironically, these days that deficit proving to be a source of tactical strength. As the White House trade ...

Federal immigration officials arrested 146 undocumented immigrants late Tuesday in raids on meat-packing plants in northeast Ohio.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested more than 100 workers suspected of using stolen or fraudulent identification to gain employment ...

SALEM, Ohio -- ICE arrested more than 100 undocumented immigrants Tuesday afternoon at a Northeast Ohio-based meat packing plant. U.S. Immigration and ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 146 employees at a meatpacking plant in northeast Ohio on Tuesday, according to multiple ...

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who led the Archdiocese of Washington and was a political force in the nation's capital, said on Wednesday that he has been ...

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, was removed from ministry Wednesday, when church officials announced that he has been ...

More details into allegations of abuse and imprisonment against a Riverside County couple are expected to be revealed in a Wednesday court hearing.

Disturbing details of abuse were released Wednesday, as the parents accused of torturing their children in Perris appeared in court Wednesday for a key ...

David and Louise Turpin allegedly abused their 13 children while holding most of them prisoner in their home in Perris, California.

Disturbing details of abuse were released Wednesday, as the parents accused of torturing their children in Perris appeared in court Wednesday for a key ...

As the Trump administration continues to forcibly separate immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, “babies and other young children” are being sent to ...

Experts say the treatment of putting immigrant children in “tender age” shelters stunts young children's development, and under the disorganized U.S. system, ...

The Trump administration has been sending immigrant toddlers and babies forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S. border to at least three “tender age” ...

The Trump administration is reportedly operating three "tender age" detainment facilities in Texas, where undocumented babies and toddlers are sent after ...

The family of a 12-year-old who committed suicide has filed a lawsuit against the young girl's school district, claiming it failed to protect her from months of ...

The parents of a 12-year-old girl who killed herself are suing a New Jersey school district for not doing enough to protect their daughter. WABC reports Mallory ...

"It changes your DNA," Dianne Grossman told reporters Tuesday. The New Jersey mother was speaking on the suicide of her 12-year-old daughter, Mallory, ...

Police identified the child whose body was found as 4-year-old Jayden Lopez from Houston.

GALVESTON, Texas -- A child found dead on a Texas beach last October has been identified by authorities, and the boy's mother and her girlfriend are under ...

The body of the boy, dubbed “Little Jacob,” was identified on Wednesday, nearly a year after his body was found on a Texas beach that prompted a nationwide ...

The mother of a boy known as “Little Jacob,” whose body was found on a Galveston beach last year, is among two people arrested after the boy was identified, ...

Archaeologists have found a pit where two soldiers and some amputated arms and legs were buried after the Civil War's Second Battle of Bull Run near ...

WASHINGTON — It's a discovery for the history books. The National Park *Service* has found the remains of two Civil War soldiers and a battlefield surgeon's pit ...

Bones uncovered in Manassas National Battlefield Park reveal stories of field surgeons' work during the Civil War.

Archaeologists discovered a pit filled with the remains of two Union soldiers who died during the Second Battle of Bull Run, which claimed the lives of about ...

Corey Lewandowski refused to apologize Wednesday after he dismissed the story of a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who was reportedly separated from ...

Corey Lewandowski enraged a fellow panelist on Fox News on Tuesday when he derisively brushed off reports of a girl with Down syndrome being separated ...

As the father of an 11-year-old with Down syndrome, this story is hitting me hard, writes David M. Perry. It's time to stop the Trump administration's systematic ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed that agents separated a child with Down Syndrome from her mother.

Five people were charged in a human “smuggling scheme,” federal prosecutors said Tuesday, after an SUV carrying 14 people crashed while fleeing border ...

The situation on America's southern border is worse than we've been led to believe. While much is being made of the “humanitarian” crisis on the border, few ...

DALLAS -- Authorities say five people have been charged in a "smuggling scheme" following the fatal crash of an SUV that was fleeing Border Patrol agents and ...

Republicans and Democrats sparred for a second day Tuesday over an internal Justice Department report that sharply criticized former FBI Director James ...

News Tuesday that FBI agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the FBI building and effectively suspended from his duties was long overdue and a welcome ...

Inspector general's report only reinforces the recklessness of Hillary Clinton for her use of private email accounts and servers while serving as secretary of state.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow broke down in tears on-air over a report about the Trump administration operating “tender age” shelters for migrant babies and ...

"I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I intended that to go," the MSNBC host later wrote.

When she first received the breaking news report, Rachel Maddow seemed to be holding it together like any other night. “This has just come out from the ...

Maddow, one of the most popular hosts on cable news, choked up while sharing a news story about what's happening to the youngest migrants who are ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's campaign manager called on his boss Tuesday to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. "Time to fire Sessions End ...

President Trump's 2020 campaign manager tweeted Tuesday that Trump should fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and “end the Mueller investigation.”.

Logic not being the strong point of the Trump administration, it claims that it is not to blame for the separation of families at the border and that a just God is ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the U.S. may use DNA tests to verify the relationship between children and adults who cross the border illegally.

Ivanka Trump met with her father, President Donald Trump, on Tuesday to discuss the images of immigrant families being separated at the US-Mexico border, ...

Meghan McCain blasted Ivanka Trump on Tuesday for remaining silent on the Trump administration's highly controversial family separation policy affecting ...

Registering public outrage over the lack of public outrage from particular members of the Trump administration is probably counterproductive.

After hearing the “horrible audio” of immigrant children screaming for their parents in a border detention center, The View's Meghan McCain said Tuesday ...

Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime confidant and former personal attorney, has resigned from his post as deputy finance chair of the Republican ...

As Donald Trump's personal fixer, Michael Cohen arranged hush money to buy the silence of Stormy Daniels, with whom Trump allegedly had an affair, and ...

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen has signaled to friends that he is "willing to give" investigators information on the President ...

A billboard in Texas made waves on social media Tuesday after its message was posted online.

A billboard along Interstate 40 near the town of Vega, Texas, tells liberals to keep driving "until you have left our great state of Texas." The reaction on social ...

Motorists passing through the state might not find the most welcoming of greetings in the Texas Panhandle, where a billboard is making waves for...

The move is largely symbolic but a politically significant rejection of the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy.

At least three states have removed National Guard troops from the border in response to the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy's impact on families, ...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Wednesday said he will not recall National Guard deployments from his state over the Trump administration's “zero-tolerance” ...

"I can't in good conscience send Delawareans to help with that mission," Gov. John Carney tweeted. - Michael Boren, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News.

Steve Schmidt, the veteran GOP strategist who worked in the George W. Bush White House and ran John McCain's campaign for president, accused ...

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, one of the GOP's loudest critics of President Trump, renounced the party early Wednesday and announced that he will ...

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, a senior adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), announced early Wednesday that he is leaving ...

Veteran GOP strategist Steve Schmidt renounced his Republican Party membership on Wednesday and pledged to vote for Democrats in an effort to preserve ...

Sen. Jim Inhofe is back in Scott Pruitt's corner after meeting with the embattled EPA chief Tuesday night — and “a little embarrassed” to have doubted his ...

“There are probably times when he displayed questionable judgment,” said Inhofe, who met with Pruitt, a longtime friend from Oklahoma, Tuesday evening.

This post has been updated. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) looked up from a set of talking points he'd been reading Wednesday morning about Scott Pruitt to ...

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has managed to stay at the helm of the agency tasked with massive deregulation under the Trump ...

Despite polls showing Republicans trailing in polls, the GOP's top leader has revealed that it has raised more money in a midterm election year than any party in ...

Republicans say it is the first time in the state's history that Democratic voter registration has dropped below 50 percent. Is it?

The president likes tough language. Let's use it for what he's doing with immigrant children.

For the midterms, Democrats need a commanding message to motivate them to overcome party divisions on how to deal with Trump.

Protesters gathered in Rittenhouse Square to greet Vice President Pence. - Andrew Seidman, Jeff Gammage, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News.

With Vice President Pence visiting upstate New York Tuesday, Gov. Cuomo sent an open letter to him ripping the Trump administration's policy of separating ...

Philadelphia protesters set up lines of children's shoes near the Rittenhouse Hotel, where Vice President Mike Pence was attending a fundraiser.

Hundreds of protesters at Rittenhouse Square on Tuesday evening chanted their disapproval of Vice President Pence, who was attending a nearby fund-raiser, ...

John Kirby writes that although there may be issues of timing and resources, Trump's desire to invest in the creation of a space force could pay dividends down ...

We often think of space as a big, empty void, except for the occasional planet, moon or star. But in reality, it's getting dangerously crowded up there. More than ...

During Monday's meeting of the National Space Council the President surprised many by directing the Pentagon to establish a sixth force — a Space Force.

If it isn't obvious already, there's one more reason not to go near the lava that has already covered nearly ten square miles of Kilauea Volcano's Eastern Rift ...

Dozens of selfie-taking tourists in parks have already been cited across Hawaii for trying to get close-up pictures of fast-moving lava.

In Puna, the area of Hawaii island that's been hardest hit by the Kilauea volcano eruption, those who lived nearest to the lava flows watched the forest around ...

While the impacts of erupting volcanoes can be devastating, over time they have benefitted the environment and mankind.

ProPublica published a surreptitious recording of distressed immigrant children inside an unnamed detention facility.

A Vox-ProPublica collaboration delves into the story behind a devastating audio clip.

The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for ...

Crying. Screaming. Shouts of “Mami!” and “Papá!” This is what President Donald Trump's policies sound like on the ground as asylum-seeking families are split ...

A Massachusetts woman is opening up about how she managed to fight off a convicted rapist who attacked her over the weekend and tried to force her into his ...

In an incident caught on video, Gordon Lyons allegedly tried to kidnap a woman jogging over the weekend.

A jogger says she managed to fight off a convicted rapist who tried to attack her over the weekend and force her into his car.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross defended the Trump administration's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum before Congress on Wednesday amid withering ...

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Wednesday his agency is launching an investigation of recent steel price hikes to determine whether some ...

Senators of both parties lit into Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, saying they're ...

The Trump administration has completed its review of a handful of the thousands of requests filed seeking exemptions from its steel and aluminum tariffs, ...

Former President Barack Obama is calling out President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy that separates families at the border, asking "are we a nation that ...

Since leaving office, former President Barack Obama has been at times reticent to comment on the actions of his successor. But on Wednesday, just as President ...

President Trump on Tuesday formally revoked an order that former President Barack Obama issued after the massive BP oil spill eight years ago, an effort to ...

Obama expressed sympathy for people who fled violence in other countries only to see their families broken apart when they reach the U.S..

House Republicans offered a budget proposal on Tuesday that would cut mandatory spending by $5.4 billion over a decade, including $537 billion in cuts to ...

House Republicans released a budget proposal Tuesday that would balance in nine years — but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including ...

The budget, which claims to balance by 2027 through $8 trillion in spending cuts, seeks to revive the deficit-cutting mantle for Republicans after 2-year deal.

Ending family separation will require short-term triage and long-term electoral action. Here are five specific things you can do.

Advocacy groups and social justice leaders have responded in force in the wake of the Department of Homeland Security disclosing that thousands of children ...

Border agents have reportedly been telling illegal immigrant parents that they are taking their children 'for a bath' before separating them as photos show the ...

"We refrain from public comment on immigration," said the president of SBA List, whose mission is to "encircle the vulnerable ones who need us."

The cost of holding migrant children who have been separated from their parents in newly created "tent cities" exceeds other options.

Newly created "tent cities" for separated children cost two to three times what it would to keep them with their parents.

The news that the Trump administration is aggressively pursuing policies separating undocumented migrant children from parents has caused a groundswell of ...

The government is building tent cities to hold thousands of minors for months at a time.