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5:21 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the entire southern border wall with Mexico is being painted black to deter illegal immigration

3:52 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he’s willing to use the vast powers of his office to prevent his party from losing control of Congress in next year’s midterm elections

3:35 PM on Tuesday, August 19

3:30 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Immigrants seeking a legal pathway to live and work in the United States will now be subject to screening for ‘anti-Americanism’ due to a new policy implemented by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

3:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump is willing to “crush” Russia's economy with sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

2:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump has been projecting himself as a global peacemaker since returning to the White house in January, claiming to have ended seven wars during the first months of his second term

2:24 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Syria’s state-run news agency says the country’s foreign minister has held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris

2:20 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Syrian state media say that Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani held a rare meeting with an Israeli delegation in Paris

2:07 PM on Tuesday, August 19

Nebraska has announced plans for an immigration detention center in the state’s remote southwest corner as President Donald Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations

1:06 PM on Tuesday, August 19

The Trump administration says it's revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials

12:27 PM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump’s decision to increase federal law enforcement and immigration agents in Washington, D

10:28 AM on Tuesday, August 19

A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea

9:30 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Hot mics have a knack for revealing unguarded moments in politics

9:06 AM on Tuesday, August 19

Mexico’s president says there’s been no agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

8:54 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The United States is deploying three guided-missile destroyers to the waters off Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels

8:35 AM on Tuesday, August 19

The remote Amazon island of Santa Rosa is at the center of a territorial dispute between Peru and Colombia

5:36 AM on Tuesday, August 19

President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine to defend against Russia, after seeming to leave open the possibility the day before

10:15 PM on Monday, August 18

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday confirmed the U.S. government is vying for a 10% stake in Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in an unusual deal that would deepen the Trump administration’s financial ties with major computer chip manufacturers and punctuate a dramatic about-face from the president’s recent push to oust the company’s CEO

9:01 PM on Monday, August 18

A California hearing on Democrats' redistricting effort turned into a shouting match Tuesday

4:27 PM on Monday, August 18

Oklahoma will require applicants for teaching jobs from California and New York to pass an exam that the state’s top education official says is designed to safeguard against “radical leftist ideology.”