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A gas pump at a gas station in Silver Spring, Md., is out of service, notifying customers they are out of fuel, late Thursday, May 13, 2021. Motorists found gas pumps shrouded in plastic bags at tapped-out service stations across more than a dozen U.S. states Thursday while the operator of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline reported making “substantial progress” in resolving the computer hack-induced shutdown responsible for the empty tanks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Gas crunch from cyberattack intensifies in nation鈥檚 capital

May 14, 2021 at 10:42 p.m.

Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation鈥檚 largest gasoline...

Migrants are processed at the intake area of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool)

Over 4,000 migrants, many kids, crowded into Texas facility

March 30, 2021 at 4:45 p.m.

The Biden administration for the first time Tuesday allowed journalists inside its main border detention facility for migrant children, revealing a severely overcrowded tent structure where more than 4,000 people,...

U.S. waives FBI checks on caregivers at new migrant facilities

March 27, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

The Biden administration is not requiring FBI fingerprint background checks of caregivers at its rapidly expanding network of emergency sites to hold thousands of immigrant teenagers, alarming child welfare experts...

AP FACT CHECK: Biden skews figures on border, taxes, more

March 25, 2021 at 6:45 p.m.

President Joe Biden on Thursday misstated the reality at the U.S.-Mexico border when he asserted that 鈥渘othing has changed鈥� when it comes to the number of children coming to the...

In this July 9, 2019, photo, a staff member works in the infirmary, a series of tents, at the U.S. government's newest holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. The government said the holding center will give it much-needed capacity to take in more children from the Border Patrol. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

White House officials, lawmakers to tour border facility

March 24, 2021 at 12:09 p.m.

A delegation of White House officials and members of Congress was traveling to the southern border on Wednesday to tour a facility being used to house migrant children as increasing...

FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, violent protesters storm the Capitol, in Washington. People charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol left behind a trove of videos and messages that have helped federal authorities build cases. In nearly half of the more than 200 federal cases stemming from the attack, authorities have cited evidence that an insurrectionist appeared to have been inspired by conspiracy theories or extremist ideologies, according to an Associated Press review of court records. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Capitol assault much bigger than intel suggested, U.S. Capitol Police chief says

February 25, 2021 at 10:51 a.m.

The acting U.S. Capitol Police chief was pressed to explain Thursday why the agency hadn鈥檛 been prepared to fend off a violent mob of insurrectionists, including white supremacists, who were...

Capitol Police Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman ...

Chief: Capitol Police were warned of violence before riot

February 24, 2021 at 5:10 p.m.

Capitol Police knew armed extremists were primed for violence at the iconic building on Jan. 6 and even provided officers with assault rifles to protect lawmakers, the acting chief acknowledged...

Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis

February 21, 2021 at 8:34 p.m.

Two days before the storm began, Houston鈥檚 chief elected official warned her constituents to prepare as they would for a major hurricane. Many took heed: Texans who could stocked up...

ICE nearly released sex abuse convicts despite Biden memo

February 13, 2021 at 3:58 p.m.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was prepared to release three men convicted of sex offenses against children, Texas officials said, in an apparent misapplication by authorities of enforcement directives from...

Police command structure crumbled fast during U.S. Capitol riot

January 18, 2021 at 1:32 p.m.

As the rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, many of the police officers had to decide on their own how to fight them off. There was no direction. No plan. And...

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