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Wiretap: Trump’s late night tweet on DACA confuses everything and everyone

This won't surprise you, but Donald Trump was back at the Twitter machine and was once again undercutting a day's worth of policy. After...

Littwin: If Trump told the truth, he’d admit to crushing 800,000...

The first thing to know about Donald Trump's cruel and gratuitous decision to end the DACA program is that he did not do it...

Wiretap: Trump has definitely turned his back on Dreamers, unless he...

Donald Trump, who campaigned on ending DACA, has apparently decided to pull the plug on the program that protects immigrants who were brought here illegally...

Littwin: Shutting down DACA would be an entirely Trump-made disaster

Here's a guess. Even Donald Trump knows that shutting down the DACA program, as he's strongly hinted he would, would be a disaster, both...

Head of Denver schools: Removing DACA protections for undocumented immigrants would...

Rolling back protections for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children would prove “catastrophic” for Denver Public Schools and the city, DPS...

Wiretap: The real story on repeal and replace is why GOP...

Why are so many Republicans reluctant to pass Republican versions of healthcare reform? It seems they're learning the same thing that Democrats learned when...

Wiretap: The new attorney general did meet with Russians; he just...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions had at least two meetings with the Russian ambassador during the Trump campaign. When asked during his confirmation meetings, he...

Court ruling extends legal limbo for immigrants

When President Obama announced last November that more than four million immigrants in the country illegally would be eligible for new protection from deportation...

In last-stretch Pueblo face-off, Udall, Gardner fire up supporters

In Pueblo, the moderator left it to the candidates to hold each other accountable. It didn't work. Boos and hisses abounded after every non-answer.

Wiretap: Hard questions loom over Iraq bombing

  Barack Obama made the hard call in Iraq, but he didn't answer the hardest questions. As John Cassidy asks in the New Yorker, "Once...