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President Obama will ask Congress for $2 billion to deal with the crisis that has seen thousands of unaccompanied children, mostly from Central America, illegally surge across the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)
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Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, has been chipping away at Obamacare, but if his party takes control of the Senate in November elections, he hopes to overhaul President Obama's signature health care law. (The Washington Times)
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Despite recent gaffes over her family finances, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains she is committed to the lower and middle classes. (Associated Press)
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Displaced Iraqi Christian girls who fled with their parents from the Christian village near Mosul province in Iraq, play by their balloons at a temporary shelter for the displaced Christian families in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil, with a majority Christian population, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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People line up for an orientation seminar for illegal immigrants, to determine if they qualify for temporary work permits, at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Schools and consulates have been flooded with requests for documents since President Barack Obama’s administration said many young illegal immigrants may be eligible for two-year renewable work permits. The new policy has left schools and consulates scrambling for quick fixes ranging from new online forms, reassigned workers and extended hours. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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National Edition News cover for June 28, 2014 - ALL of the net jobs gains in the U.S. since 2000 have gone to immigrants: People line up for an orientation seminar for illegal immigrants, to determine if they qualify for temporary work permits, at the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Schools and consulates have been flooded with requests for documents since President Barack Obama’s administration said many young illegal immigrants may be eligible for two-year renewable work permits. The new policy has left schools and consulates scrambling for quick fixes ranging from new online forms, reassigned workers and extended hours. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Racial bias in the UAW revived, says Lawrence Collins, after the 1970 death of longtime union president Walter Reuther, shown here with Rev. Martin Luther King at a 1963 meeting of black leaders in New York. (AP photo)