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WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the [...]

Edith Renfrow Smith family collection/Drake Community Library Archive Collection Edith Renfrow Smith died Friday at her home in Chicago. She was 111. In addition to a notably [...]

Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio Just outside Salt Lake City, in Sandy, Utah, there’s an old, two-story brick hotel — now given new life as a homeless shelter for [...]

Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, says the Trump administration’s plans for Venezuela after removing sitting President Nicolás Maduro from power are [...]

Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images/AFP On Oct. 15, 1929, the Yale economist Irving Fisher gave a small speech to an industry organization in New York City. It was the [...]

Federico Parra/AFP via Getty Images Now that ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is on U.S. soil, the criminal case against him is in motion. Maduro pleaded not [...]

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Apu Gomes/Getty Images North America A typical single-family house is encircled by green, its shrubs and plants sitting just under windows and hugging exterior walls. [...]

Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel Anthony Tata wrote in a memo last month that the effort is to determine the “operational [...]

Alex Wong/Getty Images North America President Trump is set to meet with House Republicans at the Kennedy Center on Tuesday as lawmakers in both chambers are calling for more [...]