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Overrides of vetoes on 2 election-related bills halfway done

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2018. 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. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump, GOP leaders strain for migrant-kids solution

By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Michael Grimm in GOP New York congressional battle over Trump loyalty

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Judge won’t restore North Carolina judicial primaries

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

Immigrant children play outside a former Job Corps site that now houses them, Monday, June 18, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. It is not known if the children crossed the border as unaccompanied minors or were separated from family members. Wrenching scenes of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern border are roiling campaigns ahead of midterm elections, emboldening Democrats on the often-fraught issue of immigration (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Border separations ripple through midterm campaigns

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 22, 2018 file photo, Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle speaks to his supporters as he enters a runoff with Brian Kemp during an election-night watch party in Gainesville, Ga. With a secret recording, allegations of political corruption and shots about the mishandling of sensitive voter data, the GOP nomination for Georgia governor has become a bruising brawl with still over a month left before the runoff is decide on July 24. (AP Photo/Todd Kirkland, File)

Secret recording, unpaid loan stir race for Georgia governor

By BEN NADLER - Associated Press

In a March 11, 2015 photo, U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., right, speaks to attendees at a meeting of the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in Mount Pleasant, S.C., to take public comment on opening areas off the Atlantic coast to drilling for oil and natural gas. The views of the five coastal congressmen in the Carolinas vary on the issue in states where the governors are advocates for offshore drilling but 18 coastal communities have gone on record against it. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Donald Trump ‘loyalty pledge’ the language of disgruntled losers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House: Trump supports GOP leaders’ immigration bill

By ALAN FRAM and JILL COLVIN - Associated Press

Republican John Warren participates in a gubernatorial primary debate at the University of South Carolina Tuesday June 5, 2018 in Columbia, S.C. (Grace Beahm Alford/The Post And Courier via AP)

House hopeful suggests, walks back claim about runoff delay

By MEG KINNARD - Associated Press

GOP, photographer prepare for trial over photo flap

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Republican primary senatorial candidate Corey Stewart gestures during a debate with E. W. Jackson and Del. Nick Freitas at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) ** FILE **

Corey Stewart does divide — but like Donald Trump, can conquer

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 6, 2018, file photo, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise speaks at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington. In the year since Scalise and others were wounded during a shooting rampage at a congressional baseball practice, mass shootings have occurred at a Texas church, a Las Vegas music festival and schools in Florida and Texas. Each incident is jarring, but GOP lawmakers say their views on gun control have not changed. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Congressional baseball game comes a year after shooting

By MATTHEW DALY and LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

The Capitol Dome of the Capitol Building in Washington, Monday, July 17, 2017. The Senate has been forced to put the republican's health care bill on hold for as much as two weeks until Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., can return from surgery. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House immigration vote snafu enrages activists

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 6, 2018 file photo, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise speaks at the 2018 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington. Scalise, the Louisiana Republican who was shot and nearly killed during a Congressional baseball practice, apparently has a memoir coming this fall. The 304-page book is called “Back in the Game,” according to listings on Amazon.com and the web site for the publisher Center Street. The release date is Nov. 13. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

A year after shooting, GOP lawmakers hold firm on gun rights

By MATTHEW DALY and LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford hugged his sons after addressing his supporters at Liberty Tap Room in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Sanford lost his first election ever Tuesday, beaten for the Republican nomination for another term in the coastal 1st District around Charleston by state Rep. Katie Arrington. (Wade Spees/The Post And Courier via AP)

In SC primary, ardent Trump backer defeats Rep. Mark Sanford

By THOMAS BEAUMONT and CHRISTINA L. MYERS - Associated Press

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes questions from reporters following a closed-door GOP meeting on immigration, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Ryan says compromise legislation is in the works on immigration that has an "actual chance at making law and solving this problem." The Wisconsin Republican gave an upbeat assessment to reporters after brokering a deal between party factions on a process to consider rival GOP immigration plans to protect young "Dreamer" immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans look to unite party on plan for immigration reform

By Seth McLaughlin and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Democrat in Arkansas highlights Pelosi opposition in TV ad

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

Abigail Spanberger, Virginia's 7th District Democratic primary candidate, smiles as she accepts the nomination to face incumbent Rep. Dave Brat on Tuesday June 12, 2018 at The Westin in Richmond, Va. (Joe Mahoney/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Women dominate in Va. Democratic House primaries

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

The Latest: Votes planned on 2 immigration bills

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar prepares to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at a hearing on prescription drug prices, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Before joining the Trump Cabinet, Azar was president of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly and Company, a major pharmaceutical drug company. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Alex Azar, HHS chief: Refusal to defend Obamacare is a ‘legal’ position

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times