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In this Feb. 7, 2017, file photo released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) aimed at immigration fugitives, re-entrants and at-large criminal aliens in Los Angeles. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP, File)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelsoi speaks to reporters during a weekly press briefing, June 14, 2018. (Image: C-SPAN screenshot)
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Suicidal Thought Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., speaks to supporters at the opening of her campaign field office Friday, May 18, 2018, in Ferguson, Mo. Less than six months before Election Day, McCaskills standing with Missouris African-American community is in question. And shes being forced to prove that shes not taking anyone for granted. McCaskill, a Democrat facing re-election in a state that has trended sharply Republican in recent years, knows she cannot afford to lose any support this fall _ especially not from a group of voters that was supposed to be among her most loyal. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)
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Jared Fogle, the disgraced former Subway spokesperson was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison for child pornography charges, as well as charges he crossed state lines to pay for sex with minors. In this Nov. 19, 2015, file photo, former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle arrives at the federal courthouse in Indianapolis. An Indiana judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's ex-wife, which alleged that the fast-food chain continued promoting Fogle as its spokesman even though it knew of his sexual interest in children. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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"We don't have a deal at this point," said Rep. Mark Walker, North Carolina Republican (right). "We're at the midnight hour," he said as he emerged from negotiations in House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's office. Mr. Walker is one of the conservative leaders on the immigration issue. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, left, and Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C., as House Republicans try to bridge their party's internal struggle over immigration at a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2018. Rep. Walker says a large group of conservatives he leads has discussed providing a pathway to citizenship to "Dreamers" in exchange for funding for the proposed border wall, ending the visa lottery and limiting the relatives immigrants can bring into the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)
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File - In this Sunday, April 2, 2017 file photo, rancher Jim Chilton poses for a photo on his ranch in Arivaca, about 80 miles southwest of Tucson, Ariz. A U.S. Border Patrol agent was wounded in a shooting on a southern Arizona ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border before dawn Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in a remote area known for drug and migrant smuggling, the agency and the cattleman who owns the property said. Chilton, a fifth-generation Arizona cattleman who runs a 50,000-acre (about 20,230-hectare) ranch outside Arivaca, told The Associated Press in an interview that the Border Patrol sent him an email saying the agent was alone when he was wounded on the ranch and was struck in the leg and the hand. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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Seattle City Council City President Bruce Harrell, left, speaks with council member Mike O'Brien before the council voted to approve a tax on large businesses such as Amazon and Starbucks to fight homelessness, Monday, May 14, 2018, in Seattle. The council on Monday unanimously backed a compromise tax plan that will charge large businesses about $275 per full-time worker a year. It's lower than the $500-per-worker tax initially proposed. The tax would begin in 2019 and raise about $48 million a year to pay for affordable housing and homeless services. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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"The Senate is saying loudly and in a bipartisan fashion that the president is dead wrong to back off on ZTE," said Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on "gay Christianity" by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, aerial file photo, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine agent looks out along the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border in Rio Grande City, Texas. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Wednesday, April 4, 2018, that President Donald Trump and border-state governors are working to immediately deploy the National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Illegal Aliens Warning Signs Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Jill Taylor, of Hamilton, Ohio, who lost her father Gary B. Shepherd taking his own life in 2011, steps up to a message board decorated with notes for loved ones during an Out of the Darkness Walk event organized by the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention in Sawyer Point park, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, in Cincinnati. Hundreds of supporters gathered to draw attention to and raise funds for the prevention of suicide that ranks as the tenth leading cause of death in the United States overall according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks about the economy during her weekly press conference, June 7, 2018. (Image: Facebook, Nancy Pelosi, live-stream screenshot)
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"There's not incentive for insurance companies in any way to contain their cost increases," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday. He said Obamacare's problem is its design, since taxpayer subsidies chase rising premiums. (Associated Press)
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Texas to meet with families of the Santa Fe school shooting victims, and to attend Republican fundraisers, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Illustration on ethanol legislation by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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ESPN's Stephen A. Smith talks about President Trump's leverage over the NFL regarding its national anthem protests. (Image: ESPN screenshot)
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President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Texas to meet with families of the Santa Fe school shooting victims, and to attend Republican fundraisers, Thursday, May 31, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)