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‘Dreamers’ remain in limbo Senate plans that spare young immigrants from deportation rejected By Alan Fram and Kevin Freking A S S OCIAT E D PRE SS
WASHINGTON — The Senate has left hundreds of thousands of “Dreamer” immigrants in limbo, rejecting rival plans that would have spared them from deportation and strengthened the nation’s bor-
Sen. Lindsey Graham, flanked by fellow Senators, discuss their bipartisan immigration deal during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday.
plan. Trump tweeted: “Cannot believe how BADLY DACA recipients have been treated by the Democrats...totally abandoned! Republicans are still working hard.” Also defeated Thursday was a compromise by a bipartisan group of senators that would have shielded the young im-
der security. Senators dealt President Donald Trump an especially galling defeat as more than a quarter of fellow Republicans abandoned him on an issue that helped propel him to the White House. Trump, on Twitter Friday, accused Democrats of abandoning Dreamers because they wouldn’t back his immigration
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TRUMP-RUSSIA PROBE
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7.2 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES CAPITAL Jon Elswick / AP
A Facebook posting, released by the House Intelligence Committee, for a group called "Being Patriotic" is shown in Washington on Friday. A federal grand jury indictment charges 13 Russians and three Russian entities with an elaborate plot to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election beginning in June 2016.
13 Russians charged with meddling Elaborate plot to disrupt 2016 presidential uncovered By Eric Tucker
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People stand in the street as an earthquake shakes Mexico City on Friday. A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake has shaken south and central Mexico, causing people to flee buildings and office towers and setting off the earthquake alert system.
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People flee swaying buildings and office towers
WASHINGTON — In an extraordinary indictment, the U.S. special counsel accused 13 Russians Friday of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, charging them with running a huge but hidden social media trolling campaign aimed in part at helping Republican Donald Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. The federal indictment, brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, represents the most detailed allegations to date of illegal Russian meddling during the campaign that sent Trump to the White House. It also marks the first criminal charges against Russians believed to have secretly worked to influence the outcome. The Russian organization was funded by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the indictment says. He is a wealthy St. Petersburg businessman with ties to the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin. Trump quickly claimed vindication Friday, noting in a tweet that the alleged interference efforts began in 2014 — “long before I announced that I would run for President.” “The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong — no collusion!” he tweeted. But the indictment does not resolve the collusion question at the heart of the continuing Mueller probe, which before Friday had produced charges against four Trump associates. U.S. intelligence agencies have previously said the Russian government interfered to benefit Trump,
MEXICO CITY — A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook south and central Mexico Friday, causing people to flee swaying buildings and office towers in the country’s capital, where residents were still jittery after a deadly quake five months ago. Crowds of people gathered on Mexico City’s central Reforma Avenue as well as on streets in Oaxaca state’s capital, nearer the quake’s epicenter. “It was awful,” said Mercedes Rojas Huerta, 57, who was sitting on a bench outside her home in Mexico City’s trendy Condesa district, too frightened to go back inside. “It started to shake; the cars were going here
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A patient is evacuated from a hospital during a powerful earthquake in Mexico City on Friday. Mexico's National Seismological Service put the magnitude of the quake at 7.0, and seismic monitor network Sky Alert said the quake was felt across the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca and Puebla.