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Melania Trump makes unannounced visit to Texas border amid crisis over separated families

The Trump administration has still not made clear how they intend to reunite the families already separated.

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Why Trump was forced to back down on family separation policy

Analysis: For a president who loves to dig in when he's criticized, a stunning about-face.

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DHS secretary heckled at Mexican restaurant over child separations

"If kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in peace," demonstrators with the group Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America shouted at the DHS secretary.

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Fact check: Did Obama administration separate families?

This claim, from DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and conservative commentators, is false, according to immigration advocates and former officials.

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Trump to face Republicans upset over border policy

Trump's family separation policy has turned Hill Republicans into administration critics.

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640 United Methodist clergy, members file complaint against Jeff Sessions

"[D]ig deeply into Mr. Sessions' advocacy and actions that have led to harm against thousands of vulnerable humans."

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U.S. to withdraw from U.N. Human Rights Council

The expected announcement comes a day after the U.N.'s top human rights official criticized the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

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Migrant parent-child separations can be permanent, says ex-ICE chief

"You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S.," said ex-Acting Director John Sandweg.

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Despite claims, GOP immigration bill would not end family separation, experts say

The legislation could be voted on next week in the House, along with another proposal backed by conservatives.

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Melania Trump ‘hates to see’ child migrants separated from families

The US first lady responds to the controversial “zero tolerance” policy of her husband’s administration, calling for consensus on immigration reform and “a country that governs with heart”.

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Trump: I won't sign GOP bill that would stop separating families at border

The remarks could upend a painstaking process to reach a compromise in the House that would end the administration's policy of tearing families apart.

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DOJ report on Clinton probe hits its mark: Comey

Analysis: The fight over FBI director's firing will go on — and the DOJ inspector general's report provides plenty of reason for it

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Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents

The attorney general, who spoke about immigration to a group of law enforcement officers in Indiana on Thursday, called on his "church friends" not to blame him for the policy.

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New York attorney general sues Trump Foundation, alleging illegal activity

The lawsuit seeks $2.8 million in restitution, and additional penalties.

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California to vote on splitting into three states

The initiative that would direct the governor to seek Congressional approval to split the state into three has enough signatures to get on the ballot.

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Senate blocks ZTE deal in rebuke of Trump deal

The move comes less than a week after the president entered into an agreement with telecom giant.

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North Korea's many nuclear weapons and how to rid the world of them

Kim Jong Un has dozens of nuclear warheads and the missiles to deliver them — one expert estimated it could take 15 years to destroy it all.

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Sessions: Domestic, gang violence not grounds for asylum

"The asylum statute does not provide redress for all misfortune," Sessions wrote in a formal legal opinion.

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Japanese citizens simply vanished. North Korea had abducted them. But why?

Trump promised Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he would bring up the painful issue during his Tuesday nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un.

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US is a 'piggybank everyone is robbing', says Trump at G7

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he told Group of Seven leaders that the United States required fair access to markets and an end to unfair trade practices.