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In this Feb. 9, 2016, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton mingles with supporters at her New Hampshire presidential primary campaign rally in Hooksett, N.H. For young women, political revolution is currently trumping the idea of a Madame President. In New Hampshire, women under the age of 45 overwhelmingly backed Bernie Sanders over Clinton, exit polls showed. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Judge orders State Dept. to speed up Hillary Clinton emails

A federal judge has rejected the State Department's request to delay all of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails until the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries, issuing an order Thursday that instead makes the administration have to release the documents in four batches between now and the end of the month. Published February 11, 2016

In this June 20, 2014, file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Democrats call for government-funded lawyers for illegal immigrants

Top Senate Democrats introduced legislation Thursday that would grant government-funded lawyers to illegal immigrants who are part of the surge of Central Americans that have overwhelmed the border and stretched the immigration courts. Published February 11, 2016

A topic big broadcasters still avoid: Hillary Clinton's role in the Benghazi terror attacks. She is seen here testifying before the U.S. Senate in 2013. (AP Photo)

State Dept. vows to speed release of Clinton emails

After a judicial spanking earlier this week, the State Department said it has discovered it has "additional resources" that can speed up release of more than 500 pages of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails, and the department can post them Saturday. Published February 11, 2016

Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., addresses the Republican Leadership Conference at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, FILE)

Obama ignoring law with Iranian visa waiver bid: House GOP

President Obama's attempt to grant a special visa waiver to Iranians who hold passports from other countries as well plays into the hands of Tehran, experts told Congress on Wednesday, saying the regime relies on exactly those dual-passport holders for its terrorism and weapons plans. Published February 10, 2016

A ballot is posted to the wall as voters wait in line to cast their ballots for the New Hampshire primary at a polling place Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

GOP shatters its turnout record; Democrats lag behind

Republicans set a turnout record Tuesday in New Hampshire's primary, attracting more than a quarter of a million voters to the polls and offering evidence that most of the energy in the presidential race continues to be on the GOP side. Published February 10, 2016

President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplace executive order, affecting how contractors do business with the federal government. (Associated Press/File)

Federal workers hit record number, but growth slows under Obama

President Obama will set a record for the size of the basic federal workforce, leaving office with more than 1.4 million people collecting government salaries in the civilian agencies in 2017, according to the budget he delivered to Congress on Tuesday. Published February 9, 2016

In another blow to the Obama administration's regulatory agenda, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the EPA's regulations limiting carbon emissions. (Associated Press)

Obama carbon emissions rule halted by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court halted the EPA's major anti-global warming initiative late Tuesday evening, dealing a major blow to President Obama's hopes of overseeing a green energy transition in his final year in office. Published February 9, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigns outside a polling place during the first-in-the-nation presidential primary, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2016, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Judge to speed up Hillary Clinton emails

A federal judge told the State Department to speed up the final release of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails, saying the voting public has an interest in seeing them as the primaries are underway. Published February 9, 2016

In this March 3, 2015 photo, a person arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is electronically fingerprinted, at their headquarters, in New York, after a series of early-morning raids. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement say an increasing number of cities and counties across the United States are limiting cooperation with the agency and putting its officers in dangerous situations as they track down foreign-born criminals. Instead, more of its force is out on the streets, eating up resources and conducting investigations because cities like New York and states like California have passed legislation that limits many of the detention requests issued by immigration authorities. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) **FILE**

Eight illegal immigrant families released after New Year’s raids

Federal immigration officials have released eight of the families they targeted for deportation raids earlier this year, advocacy groups said Tuesday as they questioned the Obama administration's new get-tough approach on the surge of illegal immigrants from Central America. Published February 9, 2016

The Virginia House bill, written by Delegate Robert G. Marshall, Prince William Republican, would allow victims of sanctuary city policies to claim compensation from the state's criminal injuries fund. That bill passed on a 68-29 vote, with three Democrats joining Republicans in approving the bill. (Associated Press)

Virginia lawmakers push to hold sanctuary cities liable for illegal immigrants’ crimes

It's unclear whether any Virginia jurisdictions qualify as sanctuary cities, but the state legislature is determined to make sure none of them stray across the line, with Republican senators and delegates pushing to withhold money from those that refuse to cooperate -- and even considering making them have to pay restitution to those harmed by illegal immigrants within their borders. Published February 8, 2016

President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Congress snubs Obama’s budget chief, works on own spending plan

The chairmen of the House and Senate budget committees canceled the invitation they issue to the White House budget chief every year to come and explain the new blueprint, saying President Obama's latest plan is going nowhere and there is no need to bother hearing from him. Published February 4, 2016

Newly arrived people who were caught in Arizona by the U.S. Border Patrol are initially processed at Tucson Sector U.S. Border Patrol headquarters in Tucson, Ariz., on Aug. 9, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama reinstates ‘catch-and-release’ policy for illegal immigrants

The Obama administration has revived the maligned illegal immigrant "catch-and-release" policy of the Bush years, ordering Border Patrol agents not to bother arresting and deporting many new illegal immigrants, the head of the agents' labor union revealed Thursday. Published February 4, 2016

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen answers to the House Oversight Committee at the Capitol in Washington on March 26, 2014, in the panel's continuing probe of whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the government's tax agency. (Associated Press) **FILE**

IRS promises to stop erasing hard drives

The IRS has put an emergency stay on deleting its computer hard drives and devices such as BlackBerrys, with the commissioner saying in a letter to Congress on Wednesday that the agency goofed in deleting a key hard drive last year that was supposed to be preserved as part of a court case. Published February 3, 2016