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Dozens of lawsuits being filed across the nation against President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Customs and Border Protection division contend that customs officials are subjecting refugees, immigrants and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries to flagrant religious and racial discrimination. They also claim that customs officials refuse to provide information […]

Sens. Charles E. Grassley and Dianne Feinstein announced Friday they have introduced legislation to kill a controversial investor visa program that critics have derided as a backdoor way for wealthy foreigners to essentially buy a pathway to U.S. citizenship. “I was hoping that it would not come to this point, but absent serious efforts to

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, who spoke recently with the Australian ambassador to the U.S., said Friday he’s not sure how many more of those calls he’ll have to make to apologize to an ally for something from the White House. “I thought it was extraordinarily unfortunate, apparently, that the conversation between Prime Minister [Malcolm] Turnbull

Former ExxonMobil Corp. Chief Executive Rex Tillerson was sworn in only Wednesday, and already Congress is moving to benefit the new secretary of state’s former—and only—place of work by shredding two major oil industry regulations. Early Friday morning, the Republican-led Senate voted 52 to 47 on a House resolution scrapping a Securities and Exchange Commission

South Korea’s Defence Minister says the US Defence Secretary’s visit to Seoul – his first trip abroad as defence secretary – sends a clear message of strong US support. “Faced with a current severe security situation, Secretary Mattis’ visit to Korea…also communicates the strongest warning to North Korea,” Han Min-koo told reporters in Seoul. The