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WATCH LIVE: The heads of ICE and immigration agencies testify as funding deadline approaches

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💥 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Customs and Border Protection,Department of Homeland Security,ice,immigration and customs enforcement,uscis ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The heads of agencies implementing President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress on Tuesday and face questions about how immigration enforcement is pursued within American cities. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EST. Watch the event live in the player above. Trump's immigration campaign has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks, after two protesters were shot and killed in Minneapolis by Homeland…

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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter talk about Trump’s low approval ratings

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✨ Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Politics Monday ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: A new poll shows what Americans think of President Trump and his policies, and it's not good news for the White House.For more, let's go to the Monday policy duo. This is Amy Walter from The Cook Policy Report with NPR's Amy Walter and Tamara Keith.Always great to see you both.So, Amy, the latest poll from PBS News, NPR and Marist shows that a majority of Americans disapprove of the job President Trump is doing, with a majority…

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Vance visits Armenia, a country no U.S. president or vice president has ever visited

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🔥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Armenia,JD Vance ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in Armenia on Monday — a country no U.S. vice president or president has visited before — where the Trump administration offered economic opportunities as it works to advance a U.S.-brokered deal aimed at ending the decades-long conflict with Azerbaijan. Vance and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan signed an agreement to advance negotiations on a civil nuclear energy agreement, and Vance said that the United States is ready to export advanced computer…

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Watch: The Senate reconvenes amid trade offers between Democrats and the White House on funding the Department of Homeland Security

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💥 Read this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Homeland Security,senate,White House 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have begun tentative talks with the White House over their demands for “dramatic” new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown, discussing a potential deal just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security expires. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Democrats have sent the White House their list of demands for Immigration, Customs Enforcement and other federal law enforcement agencies. The White House said Monday evening that it responded with…

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WATCH: Coomer says Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions about Epstein in House deposition

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💥 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,epstein files,Ghislaine Maxwell,house oversight committee,jame comer,jeffrey epstein 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, declined to answer questions from House lawmakers in her filing Monday, but indicated that if President Donald Trump finishes her prison sentence, she is willing to testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton did anything wrong in their relationships with Epstein. Watch the clip in the video player above. The House Oversight Committee wanted Maxwell to answer questions during a video call to…

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Trump criticizes Olympian for expressing “mixed feelings” about what is “happening in the United States”

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✨ Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: 2026 winter olympics,Donald Trump news,immigration enforcement,Milan Cortina Olympics,skiing,Sports 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that it is difficult to encourage American athletes who speak out against his administration's policies. Read more: Vance says the Olympics are "one of the few things" that unite Americans When asked at a news conference at the Milan Cortina Games how it felt to represent the United States while ICE agents detained immigrants back home, freestyle skier Hunter Hess responded that he had mixed feelings: “If it…

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WATCH: Democrats say Ghislaine Maxwell is not cooperating as she campaigns for Trump’s pardon

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✨ Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Ghislaine Maxwell,James Comer,Melanie Stansbury 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer told lawmakers Monday that she would be willing to testify that neither President Donald Trump nor former President Bill Clinton is responsible for any wrongdoing in their ties to Epstein, according to both Democratic and Republican lawmakers who emerged from a closed session with Maxwell. Watch the clip in the video player above. Democrats argued that Maxwell's confirmation was a plea for Trump to end her prison sentence. “It's very clear that she's campaigning…

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WATCH LIVE: House gavel as DHS funding deadline approaches

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🔥 Read this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: congress,immigration and customs enforcement,U.S. Department of Homeland Security ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Along with smashing car windows, tackling people on city streets — or even detaining a toddler wearing a snow hat with floppy bunny ears — images of masked federal officers have become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations. The House of Representatives is expected to meet at 12 noon EST. Watch the live stream in our video player above. Never in recent U.S. memory has a U.S. police operation…

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4 takeaways from the Epstein files about the FBI’s investigation into possible sex trafficking

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💥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: epstein files,fbi,jeffrey epstein ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI collected ample evidence that Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused underage girls, but found little evidence that the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows. The prosecutor wrote in one of his 2025 memos that videos and photos seized from Epstein's homes in New York, Florida and the Virgin Islands did not depict victims being abused or implicate anyone else in his crimes.…

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Trump’s racist post about the Obamas was deleted after backlash despite the White House defending it earlier

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Barack Obama,Donald Trump news,Michelle Obama,racism ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's social media post showing former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama as monkeys in the jungle has been deleted after backlash from both Republicans and Democrats who criticized the video as racist. The Republican president's post was deleted Thursday evening, Friday, and a staffer was blamed after widespread backlash, from civil rights leaders to veteran Republican senators, over his treatment of the nation's first black president and first lady.…

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