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In July 2019, we received inquiries from readers about a photograph of Alex Acosta and his family, which emerged on social media in the days leading up to Acosta’s resignation as U.S. secretary of labor: the acostas couldn’t look more like a strict christian family with dark secrets if they tried pic.twitter.com/OtDUijwnpl — erin (@eehouls) July 10, 2019   Several readers asked whether the photograph was authentic. It is. The…

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President Trump defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amid her dispute with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other freshman female Democrats. He said Democrats have been “very disrespectful to Pelosi,” adding that the Speaker “is not a racist.” Trump strongly defended Speaker Pelosi, saying, “I’ll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you know better than I do, she is not a racist. OK? She is not a racist. For them to call…

Congress By QUINT FORGEY 07/12/2019 12:59 PM EDT Updated 07/12/2019 01:55 PM EDT 2019-07-12T01:55-0400 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday savaged White House adviser Stephen Miller for his role in engineering the administration’s family separation policy, accusing him of abetting the humanitarian crisis at the southern border. “It is a policy of dehumanization, implemented by this executive administration, laid at the feet of Stephen Miller, that create[s] a tinderbox of violence…

CLOSE After 9/11, the U.S. enforced stricter control on immigration. This enforcement led to the birth of Homeland Security and ICE, but what is ICE exactly? We explain. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY DENVER – Fear and anxiety spread through immigrant communities nationwide over anticipated federal raids aimed at detaining and deporting thousands of people accused of remaining illegally within the United States. Immigration reform advocates said that communities around Atlanta,…

Embattled Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has announced he is resigning Friday morning. Acosta made the announcement himself, accompanying the president out of the White House residence before the president’s departure for a trip to Milwaukee. “As I look forward, I do not think it is right and fair for this administration’s labor department to have (Jeffrey) Epstein as the focus rather than the incredibly economy we have today.” “I told…

CLOSE After 9/11, the U.S. enforced stricter control on immigration. This enforcement led to the birth of Homeland Security and ICE, but what is ICE exactly? We explain. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY DENVER – Fear and anxiety spread through immigrant communities nationwide over anticipated federal raids aimed at detaining and deporting thousands of people accused of remaining illegally within the United States. Immigration reform advocates said that communities around Atlanta,…

Video AOC delivers impassioned statement against Trump’s ‘policy of dehumanization’ Raw video: Democrat freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers opening statement at House Oversight hearing on ‘The Trump Administration’s Child Separation Policy: Substantiated Allegations of Mistreatment.’ Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into what she called the Trump administration’s “policy of dehumanization” and stood by claims that detained migrants were told to drink out of toilet bowls at a fiery and emotional…

Not seeing the video? Click here. Updated at 11:58 a.m. ET Vice President Pence visits the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday as a House panel heard testimony from Democratic and Republican lawmakers and others about conditions at facilities run by the Department of Homeland Security. At the Capitol, the House Oversight Committee heard from Republican lawmakers who represent border districts and from Democratic lawmakers who have recently traveled to the border….

Earlier this week, federal prosecutors in Manhattan brought new charges against Mr. Epstein, accusing him of sex trafficking, which revived concerns about the federal government’s handling of sex crimes charges against Mr. Epstein more than a decade ago. They also resurrected Mr. Trump’s previous relationship with Mr. Epstein, whom he described as “a terrific guy” in 2002. Democrats on Thursday demanded a briefing from the Justice Department about the 2008…

Trump Declares State Of Emergency In Louisiana Ahead Of Tropical Storm Barry President Trump has decided to declare a federal emergency for Louisiana, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate all disaster relief efforts ahead of the growing Tropical Storm Barry. RELATED: More Than 19,000 Without Power Across New Orleans Due To Massive Rainfall Trump approved the federal assistance after a request made by…

WASHINGTON – Two events today more than 1,700 miles apart will put on display the deep divisions over the worsening migrant crisis at the southern U.S. border.  Battling to shape public perceptions of the worsening migrant crisis at the southern U.S. border, Vice President Mike Pence and a group of Republican senators will head to the border to tour a migrant detention center while Democrats host a high-profile hearing about the centers featuring testimony from…

Video Howard Kurtz: A strange White House summit mainly rips tech giants ‘MediaBuzz’ host Howard Kurtz weighs in on President Trump’s social media summit that was absent Google, Facebook and Twitter. It was obvious from the outset that the media didn’t think much of Donald Trump’s social media summit. Before yesterday’s White House event got under way, a New York Times news story declared: “The guest list has alarmed critics…

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Media captionPresident Trump outlines his executive order, but will it work? President Donald Trump will no longer pursue adding a question on citizenship to the 2020 US census questionnaire. Instead, he said officials would obtain the information through an executive order for government agencies, as court challenges would have delayed a census. The retreat follows a long fight over the inclusion of the question, which the Supreme Court blocked in…

Simon Chaisson, left, flips a sandbag into the back of a pickup truck as members of the DSHS Softball team form a fire brigade passing sandbags down the line. Denham Springs has gone through a huge number, estimated 15,000, sandbags as of Thursday morning, July 11, 2019, in Denham Springs, La. Community groups are there shoveling the bags for the elderly and infirm. It’s so busy that police officers and…

Video Fox News Flash top headlines for July 11 Fox News Flash top headlines for July 11 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com President Trump unleashed on Paul Ryan in a late-night tweetstorm in response to criticisms the former speaker made in an upcoming book. In the book, “American Carnage,” Ryan recalled his difficult working relationship with the president. He told Politico’s Tim Alberta that Trump “didn’t know anything about the government”…

Video Feud between Speaker Pelosi and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez heats up in the House Capri Cafaro and Terry Holt weigh in on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent comments insinuating that Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t respect her as a ‘woman of color.’ Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., added to the mounting Democratic criticism of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., slamming her “inappropriate” suggestion that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is singling out the New Yorker…

President Trump’s many policy reversals and blunders draw into question his administration’s immigration strategy. But for all the dysfunction, one thing is and has been evident: Trump wants the border enforced. So do the majority of Americans, according to a new poll. A new Hill-HarrisX poll found that 41% of voters believe that those who cross the border illegally should face criminal punishment — a key Trump administration policy. Only…