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Byline: Jerry Markon;Ylan Q. Mui;Katie Zezima INDIANAPOLIS -- Retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to be his defense secretary, according to people familiar [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Emma Brown;Katherine Shaver A federal judge in New York blocked deportations nationwide late Saturday of those detained on entry to the United States after an executive order from [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for national security adviser partnered in recent months with a technology company co-led by a businessman who pleaded guilty to trying to sell [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Jenna Johnson;Elise Viebeck President-elect Donald Trump lavished praise on President Obama on Wednesday and said he is taking his predecessor's guidance on political appointments, but it seems unlikely [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Dan Lamothe President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly to run the Department of Homeland Security, turning to a blunt-spoken border-security hawk who clashed [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Sean Sullivan Supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are moving aggressively to challenge Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's push for a recount in three states, filing legal challenges [...]

Byline: Karen Tumulty;Jerry Markon President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday began to follow through on a pledge to put together a diverse administration -- not only expanding its makeup along ethnic [...]

Byline: Chico Harlan;Jerry Markon If Donald Trump sticks to the immigration pledges that helped drive his presidential election victory, he will begin a clampdown on illegal immigration that would be [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Fenit Nirappil;Wesley Lowery The growing national divisions over law enforcement and race hardened further on Sunday as police and political leaders condemned the recent killings of five officers [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Adam Goldman The mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando was the third time in recent years that someone who had been under FBI scrutiny carried out [...]

Byline: Hayley Tsukayama;Mark Berman;Jerry Markon ORLANDO -- A gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire inside a crowded gay bar and dance club here early Sunday, leaving [...]

Byline: Juliet Eilperin;Mike DeBonis;Jerry Markon President Obama will announce Wednesday he is nominating Merrick Garland to serve on the Supreme Court, according to three sources, setting up a protracted political [...]

Byline: Sari Horwitz;Robert Barnes;Jerry Markon President Obama is finalizing his decision on a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia and appears to have narrowed his choice to [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Sari Horwitz;Mike DeBonis Black civil rights groups and activists are pressing the nation's first African American president to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, calling it [...]

Byline: Christopher Haxel;Mark Berman;Jerry Markon HESSTON, Kan. -- Law enforcement officials struggled Friday to understand how this small town had become the latest American community to be shaken by a [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Mark Berman Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's free stay at the secluded Texas ranch where he died highlights questions about what gratuities judges can accept and whether they [...]

Byline: Eva Ruth Moravec;Sari Horwitz;Jerry Markon MARFA, Tex. -- In the cloistered chambers of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia's days were highly regulated and predictable. He met with clerks, [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The U.S. government will continue its controversial deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants even as the number of new illegal migrants has fallen dramatically, Department of Homeland [...]

Byline: Carissa Wolf;Mark Berman;Jerry Markon BURNS, Ore. -- Federal agents on Wednesday sealed off an Oregon wildlife refu -ge that remained occupied by armed protesters after one of the most [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The illegal immigrant population in the United States has fallen below 11 million, continuing a nearly decade-long decline that has the potential to reshape the debate over [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon The illegal immigrant population in the United States has fallen below 11 million, continuing a nearly decade-long decline that has the potential to reshape the debate over [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;David Nakamura The escalating tensions between Democrats and the Obama administration over its deportation raids targeting Central American immigrants burst into public view on Tuesday, with more than [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;David Nakamura The Department of Homeland Security has begun preparing for a series of raids that would target for deportation hundreds of families who have flocked to the [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon Former homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano is supporting executive action by President Obama to change immigration policy if Congress fails to pass a broad overhaul, citing what [...]