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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, sent a first-of-its-kind waiver to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeking federal funding for a state-administered family planning program that excludes abortion providers and their affiliates. (Associated Press)

Texas triggers plan to defund Planned Parenthood at federal level

By Bradford Richardson - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump meets with what the White House identifies as &quot;immigration crime victims&quot; to urge passage of House legislation to save American lives, Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump cancels Obama’s special immigration program for foreign entrepreneurs

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Critics of President Donald Trump's travel ban hold signs during a news conference with Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin in Honolulu on June 30, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Appeals court refuses to weigh in on Trump travel ban rules

By SUDHIN THANAWALA - Associated Press

Hawaii: Including grandmas in travel ban ‘preposterous’

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The sanctions issued Tuesday by the Trump administration mark a major increase in pressure on countries that refuse to take back their deportees. (Associated Press/File)

‘Sanctuary’ jurisdictions defend their policies to Justice Department

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Immigrant rights group say Milwaukee caves in to pressure

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Sharyl Attkisson with President Trump on the set of "Full Measure." She has authored a book "The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote." (Sinclair Broadcasting)

Inside the Beltway: Sharyl Attkisson reveals the ghastly world of political smears, fake news

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke took a close look at Bears Ears National Monument in May and recommended last month that President Trump reduce the size of the designation. Such a move is hardly unprecedented. (Associated Press/File)

Bears Ears monument changes have precedent

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Dreamers, who just weeks ago cheered the administration's announcement that it was maintaining DACA, were furious at the latest turn of events and called Texas' move racist. (Associated Press/File)

Texas forces Donald Trump to pick sides on Dreamer amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The National Council of Resistance of Iran holds a boisterous rally each year in France with current and former U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials speaking out in support of regime change in Tehran. (Associated Press/File_

Iranian dissidents rally in France for the overthrow of Iran’s theocracy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hanadi Al-Haj, right, greets her Yemeni mother Amal Bagoon in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport as her mother arrives from Jordan via Istanbul, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Latest: Iran says US travel ban ‘truly shameful’

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, joined by nine other state attorneys general and the governor of Idaho, says in a letter that the 2012 amnesty created by President Obama and continued by President Trump is illegal. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

State AGs threaten to sue Trump to stop Dreamer amnesty

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 2, 2017 photo, Eric Treene, Special Counsel For Religious Discrimination, Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. Treene lamented the lack of solid data on hate crimes during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in May, saying incomplete numbers stymie officials’ ability to fully understand the problem. But he said the department is committed to prosecuting hate crimes, even as critics have blamed the Trump administration’s tough rhetoric and policies for a spike in such offenses. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Over half of hate crimes in US go unreported, report says

By SADIE GURMAN and RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

Hanadi Al-Haj, right, greets her Yemeni mother Amal Bagoon in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport as her mother arrives from Jordan via Istanbul, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

The Latest: US adds fiancés to travel ban exemptions

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Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin speaks during the daily press briefing, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

With bank sanctions and arms sales, US hardens line on China

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON and JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Kate Steinle was fatally shot on July 1, 2015, allegedly by illegal immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. The U.S. House on Thursday passed Kate's Law, a federal provision aimed at penalizing illegal immigrants who return to the United States after being deported. (Associated Press)

House passes Kate’s Law, anti-sanctuary city bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE--In this Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, Khaled Almilaji, who coordinated a campaign that vaccinated 1.4 million Syrian children and risked his life to provide medical care during the country's civil war, stands for a portrait at Brown University in Providence, R.I. Almilaji says he won't return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown because of the Trump administration's travel ban. He was recently awarded a medal for meritorious service from Queen Elizabeth II. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Syrian doctor caught in travel ban gives up, moves to Canada

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press

Clouds hover over the Lake Champlain waterfront in Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Gov. Peter Shumlin on Tuesday signed into law the Vermont Clean Water Act, designed to clean up the lake by reducing pollutants that run into it. Shumlin said the law is an effort to correct a problem that has been centuries in the making. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

EPA moves to kill Waters of the U.S. rule

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 18, 2017 file photo, a Syrian National flag hangs out of a damaged building at the mountain resort town of Zabadani in the Damascus countryside, Syria. The Syrian government on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 dismissed White House allegations that it was preparing a new chemical weapons attack, as activists reported an airstrike on an Islamic State-run jail in eastern Syria that they said killed more than 40 prisoners. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

The Latest: US warns Syria against chemical attack

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People visit the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017, as justices issued their final rulings for the term. The high court is letting a limited version of the Trump administration ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Trump travel ban takes effect Thursday

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