New DOJ rule allows attorneys without immigration experience to serve as temporary immigration judges amid massive case backlog and judge shortages.

A shooter killed two children and wounded 17 others during morning Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic church, prompting discussions about preventing mass violence.

Marco Rubio signs off on blocking visas for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and other officials from attending September's UN General Assembly in New York.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom warns Trump may refuse to step down after a second term, slamming his "authoritarian tendencies" at Sacramento summit.

President Donald Trump's suggestion that he would send National Guard troops to Democratic-led Baltimore and Chicago riled up Democratic senators, while some Republicans in states with high-crime blue cities welcomed the idea.

A visit by a pair of U.S. senators to Taiwan has drawn criticism from China, which claims the island as its own and objects to any contact between officials of the two sides. The pair's two-day visit to Taiwan follows stops in Hawaii, Guam, Tinian, Palau and the Philippines.

A case that could provide the Trump administration with new and expansive power over the traditionally independent Federal Reserve will get its first court hearing Friday.