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WASHINGTON — President Trump is planning to take another step in his ongoing battle to place a question about citizenship on the 2020 census by announcing an executive action in the Rose Garden on Thursday, according to a senior administration official familiar with the decision. Mr. Trump said on Twitter that he would hold an afternoon news conference on the issues of “census and citizenship” days after his attorney general,…

Congress By SARAH FERRIS and TED HESSON 07/11/2019 11:20 AM EDT Updated 07/11/2019 01:25 PM EDT 2019-07-11T01:25-0400 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday warned her caucus about President Donald Trump’s planned immigration raids this weekend, urging members to spread information about undocumented immigrants’ legal rights. Speaking to a closed-door whips meeting, Pelosi urged members to spread the party’s “know your rights” campaign, according to two people in the room. Democrats…

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For weeks last month, the ICE director at the time, Mark Morgan, signaled that agents would escalate efforts to round up families. Days before the operation was to begin, Mr. Trump forecast the plan on Twitter, blindsiding ICE agents whose safety officials feared would be compromised as a result. In early June, the Department of Homeland Security’s acting secretary, Kevin K. McAleenan, told Mr. Morgan to call off the operation….

Video Report: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard unsuccessfully tried to seize British ship United Nations General Assembly president Maria Fernanda Espinosa discusses tensions with Iran on ‘The Story.’ Five Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday but backed off after a British warship approached, a senior U.S. defense official told Fox News. The British warship was said to have been less than 5…

The current projected track would mean no surge or major wind issues for Southwest Louisiana, but until a definite track is nailed down, that threat cannot be totally discounted. Hopefully today, with an actual storm developing and a center of low level circulation to lock in on, we’ll have a better feel for exactly where this storm will make landfall on Saturday, but if recent trends from the past two…

Video Speaker Pelosi clashes with leftist freshmen representatives Richard Fowler, Guy Benson and Howard Kurtz weigh in on the growing divide in the Democratic Party and who is really controlling the narrative. The public spat between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, got a lot nastier on Wednesday, with the freshman congresswoman suggesting that the speaker is “singling out” her and her colleagues based on their race. Pelosi has worked…

Marianna Massey/Getty Images Grand Isle, Louisiana, ahead of Tropical Storm Karen on Oct. 4, 2013. Marianna Massey/Getty Images Grand Isle, Louisiana, ahead of Tropical Storm Karen on Oct. 4, 2013. Related content (CNN) – US oil has surged above $60 a barrel amid concerns that Tropical Storm Barry could derail crude production in the Gulf of Mexico. US oil futures for August delivery settled 4.5% higher at $60.43 on Wednesday,…

House Democrats on Wednesday will hold a hearing titled “Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border.” It will once again be an attempt to divert attention from the real reason why migrants kids are dying at the southern border. The root of each and every death at the border is traced to a belief, on the part of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, that they can and should…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption HMS Montrose is reported to have driven off the Iranian boats Iranian boats tried to impede a British oil tanker near the Gulf – before being driven off by a Royal Navy ship, the Ministry of Defence has said. HMS Montrose, a British frigate escorting the tanker British Heritage, was forced to move between the three boats and the tanker, a spokesman said. He described…

President Trump’s threatened deportation raids are “absolutely going to happen,” says senior Department of Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli. “There are approximately 1 million in this people with deportation orders,” the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told reporters on the White House driveway. “Of course, that isn’t what ICE will go after in this, but that’s the pool of people that have been all the way through…

Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath’s reversal came just 36 hours into her nascent candidacy against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. | AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File 2020 elections By JAMES ARKIN 07/10/2019 09:26 PM EDT Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath flip-flopped on supporting Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the span of several hours Wednesday. McGrath, who announced a challenge to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week, tweeted that…

A British warship prevented an apparent attempt by five Iranian small boats to direct a British oil tanker towards Iranian waters on Wednesday, according to two U.S. officials. The incident is the first provocative action since Iranian officials warned of consequences after the United Kingdom seized an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar that was carrying Iranian oil to Syria in violation of international sanctions. The United Kingdom flagged…

SHREVEPORT, La. – The National Hurricane Center says conditions appear favorable for a weather system in the Gulf of Mexico to strengthen into a hurricane as it approaches the United States coastline by this weekend. Forecasters said the weather disturbance is expected to become a tropical depression by Thursday morning; a tropical storm by Thursday night and a hurricane on Friday. Forecasters said parts of the central…

Yazmin Juárez, testified on Wednesday before Congress about the treatment of her daughter Mariee, who died after being released from detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle caption Jacquelyn Martin/AP Yazmin Juárez, testified on Wednesday before Congress about the treatment of her daughter Mariee, who died after being released from detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Jacquelyn Martin/AP “I’m here today because I want…

In July 2019, registered sex offender and hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges relating to the sex trafficking of minors. In addition to the severity of the alleged crimes, Epstein’s arrest made headlines due to his connections to well-known public figures and politicians, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton. The news of Epstein’s arrest sent political partisans into overdrive as they attempted to show…

House Democrats on Wednesday will hold a hearing titled “Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border.” It will once again be an attempt to divert attention from the real reason why migrants kids are dying at the southern border. The root of each and every death at the border is traced to a belief, on the part of hundreds of thousands of Central Americans, that they can and should…

U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended a 2008 plea deal made when he was a U.S. attorney in Florida with Jeffrey Epstein, a wealthy financier accused of yearslong sex trafficking of minors. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended a 2008 plea deal made when he was a U.S. attorney in Florida with Jeffrey Epstein,…

Video Labor Secretary Alex Acosta makes statement regarding Epstein matter Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta pushed back Wednesday against calls for him to step down over his past involvement in a plea deal for financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged in federal court this week with sex trafficking — saying his office fought for a tougher punishment after state prosecutors were ready to let him “walk free.” “Facts are important, and facts…