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Migrants form lines in May outside the border fence waiting for transportation to a U.S. Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas. Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right. The debate is now focused on measures meant to keep migrants out as Republicans sense they have the political upper hand. A bipartisan group of senators tasked with finding a border deal this week is running out of time to reach an agreement.

Washington's center of gravity on immigration has shifted to the right. Can the parties make a deal?

It was a decade ago that Capitol Hill was consumed by an urgency to overhaul the nation's immigration system, fueled in no small part by Republicans who felt a political imperative to make inroads with minority voters by embracing more generous policies.
Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, speaks during a July 2023 news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Texts and emails sent by Perry have emerged publicly in a court filing that hints at how Perry worked to keep Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss.

A court filing gives a rare look inside the FBI seizure of a lawmaker's phone in 2020 election probe

Just how hard did some Republican members of Congress work to keep President Donald Trump in office after his 2020 election loss? A court case is providing a few tantalizing clues.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd Saturday during a caucus event at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Trump tells supporters, 'Guard the vote.' Here's the phrase's back story and why it's raising concern

Former President Donald Trump is urging supporters to "guard the vote" during next year's election, a phrase that has set off alarm bells among pro-democracy advocates who say it signals permission to take extreme measures that could intimidate voters and threaten election workers.
Nile Rodgers, musician and producer, participates Wednesday in a demonstration at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks

After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate summit Wednesday finished up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.
Authorities responding to reports of multiple victims in shooting at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Police said a suspect was found dead Wednesday as officers responded to an active shooter and reports of multiple victims at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, speaks to reporters hours after he was ousted as speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington.
Kevin McCarthy was booted as House speaker two months ago. Now he's leaving Congress by year's end
Two months after his historic ouster as U.S. House speaker, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday that he is resigning and will leave Congress by the end of the year.
Demonstrators march and gather in Austin, Texas, following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her terminate the pregnancy, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
A pregnant Texas woman is asking a court to let her have an abortion under exceptions to state's ban
A pregnant Texas woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis asked a court Tuesday to let her have an abortion, bringing what her attorneys say is the first lawsuit of its kind in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.
United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, greets Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival Wednesday at an international airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Russia's Putin is visiting the UAE and Saudi Arabia, seeking to bolster Moscow's Mideast clout
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a lightning tour intended to raise Moscow's profile as a Middle East power broker, even as his war in Ukraine grinds on.
Neighborhood residents speak to Austin Police officers in Austin, Texas late Tuesday. Texas authorities say a daylong series of attacks in Austin has left four people dead and at least three injured, and a man believed to be connected to them and the deaths of two people near San Antonio was taken into custody.
Suspect in custody after 6 dead and 3 injured in series of attacks in Texas, authorities say
Texas authorities on Wednesday charged a man with capital murder following a wave of daylong violence across two major cities that left six people dead and two police officers recovering from gunshots, including one who was shot in the leg outside a high school in Austin.
The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. Israeli officials say victim testimony and evidence gathered by rights groups indicate that Hamas militants carried out widespread sexual and gender-based crimes during their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.
New signs emerge of 'widespread' sexual crimes by Hamas, as Netanyahu alleges global indifference
While investigators are still trying to determine the scope of the sexual assaults, Israel's government is accusing the international community, particularly the United Nations, of ignoring the pain of Israeli victims.
Palestinian Wisam Tamimi, 17, a released prisoner under the Israel Hamas cease-fire agreement last week, poses for a photo Thursday at the family house in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The release of Palestinian prisoners under the Israel-Hamas cease-fire agreement last week has touched nearly everyone in the occupied West Bank, where 750,000 Palestinians have been arrested since 1967. In negotiations with Israel to free hostages in Hamas captivity in Gaza, the militant group has pushed for the release of high-profile prisoners. But experts say most Palestinians passing through Israel’s ever-revolving prison door are young men arrested in the middle of the night for throwing stones and firebombs in villages near Israeli settlements.
Generation after generation, Israeli prison marks a rite of passage for Palestinian boys
The release of Palestinian prisoners under the Israel-Hamas cease-fire agreement last week has touched nearly everyone in the occupied West Bank, where 750,000 Palestinians have been arrested since 1967.
President Joe Biden speaks Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington. Biden will sign an executive order during a 2023 tribal nations summit that aims to make it easier for Native Americans to access federal funding and have greater autonomy over how to invest those funds.
At tribal summit, Biden says he's working to 'heal the wrongs of the past' and 'move forward'
President Joe Biden told Native American nations gathered for a summit Wednesday that his administration was working to heal the wrongs of the past as he signed an executive order that seeks to make it easier for Indigenous peoples to access federal funding, and have greater autonomy over how to spend it.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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