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Senate nears deal that avoids major shutdown, revisits Homeland Security funding

With a partial government shutdown looming by week's end, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined at right by Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., confers with an aide following a closed-door meeting with fellow Democrats on spending legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies as the country, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

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The Senate on Thursday night was preparing to vote on a spending package to avoid another prolonged government shutdown, but with only a two-week stopgap for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats push to put guardrails on ICE.

Operation Metro Surge crosses 3,500 arrest mark; here’s who’s getting caught

A man is arrested by federal immigration officers Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Victor Navarro Govea, a Mexican, crossed into the U.S. illegally in 2009. Last year, he was deemed to be a bona fide candidate for a special victim’s visa. He was granted a four-year deportation amnesty by Homeland Security, which should have lasted through 2029.

A man is arrested by federal immigration officers Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Operation Metro Surge crosses 3,500 arrest mark; here’s who’s getting caught

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A person holds drug paraphernalia near the Washington Center building on SW Washington St. in downtown Portland, Ore. on April 4, 2023. A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers are working to boost funding for jails to provide medication used to treat opioid addiction. The move comes as the fentanyl crisis has pushed the Legislature to consider overhauling the state's pioneering drug decriminalization law by once again making it a crime to possess small amounts of drugs. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP, File)

Trump creates federal program to treat addiction as chronic health issue

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A woman charges her phone in one of the tents set up by the emergency service following Russia's regular air attacks that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Trump says Putin won’t fire on Ukrainian cities because of the deep freeze

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A Ukrainian drone operator from the Kraken 1654 unit, callsign Imla, flies a Vampire drone during a demonstration for The Associated Press, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

Ukraine using un-crewed drones for 80% of strikes against Russian targets

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From left, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks as Attorney General Pam Bondi, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem listen during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senate Democrats call on Kristi Noem to testify ‘immediately’

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A Ukrainian drone operator from the Kraken 1654 unit, callsign Imla, flies a Vampire drone during a demonstration for The Associated Press, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

Ukraine using un-crewed drones for 80% of strikes against Russian targets

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From left, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks as Attorney General Pam Bondi, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem listen during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Senate Democrats call on Kristi Noem to testify ‘immediately’

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The state and U.S. flags fly over the Virginia State Capitol as the 2024 session of the Virginia General Assembly gets underway, Jan. 10, 2024, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Virginia Democrats advance restrictions on immigration officers, including mask ban

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Members of the National Guard patrol in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump’s crime crackdown with troops cost nearly $500 million

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A woman charges her phone in one of the tents set up by the emergency service following Russia's regular air attacks that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Trump says Putin won’t fire on Ukrainian cities because of the deep freeze

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The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view through an airplane window in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

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A Ukrainian drone operator from the Kraken 1654 unit, callsign Imla, flies a Vampire drone during a demonstration for The Associated Press, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) **FILE**

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