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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House, Friday, June 15, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump hits GOP immigration bill, then warms to it

by Alan Fram Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressJune 15, 2018

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Lawmakers decry family separations

by Matthew Daly Associated Press, Kevin Freking Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressJune 14, 2018

FILE - In this Nov. 2009 file photo, President Bush presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to boxer Muhammad Ali in the East Room of the White House. President Donald Trump said he is thinking "very seriously" about pardoning Muhammad Ali, even though the Supreme Court vacated the boxing champion's conviction in 1971. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump considers Ali pardon; late boxer’s lawyer says no need

by Jill Colvin Associated PressJune 9, 2018

President Trump sings the national anthem during a “Celebration of America” event at the White House, Tuesday.

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Political football: Trump boots Eagles

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Jonathan Lemire Associated PressJune 5, 2018

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz, right, hands the Vincent Lombardi trophy to Nick Foles after winning the NFL Super Bowl 52 football game against the New England Patriots in Minneapolis, Feb. 4, 2018. The Eagles won 41-33. President Donald Trump has called off a visit by the Philadelphia Eagles to the White House Tuesday due to the dispute over whether NFL players must stand during the playing of the national anthem. Trump says in a statement that some members of the Super Bowl championship team “disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart.” Trump says the team wanted to send a smaller delegation, but fans who planned to attend “deserve better.”

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Trump touts celebration of US after canceling NFL’s Eagles

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Errin Haines Whack Associated PressJune 5, 2018

In this May 28, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Trump on Tuesday seized on an error by liberal activists who tweeted photos of young-looking immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in steel cages and blamed the current administration for separating immigrant children from their parents. The photos were taken by The Associated Press in 2014, when President Barack Obama was in office. The photo...

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Trump, critics spar over immigration

by Jill Colvin Associated PressMay 29, 2018

IN this May 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on immigration policy at Morrelly Homeland Security Center in Bethpage, N.Y. Trump has spent recent weeks publically hammering Congress to build his promised border wall and pass immigration legislating cracking down on “legal loopholes” he says allow criminals to enter the country illegally. But behind the scenes, Trump has shown little interest in jumping into an intensifying Capitol Hill debate over...

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Trump steering clear of messy House immigration fight

by Jill Colvin Associated Press, and Lisa Mascaro Associated PressMay 25, 2018

President Donald Trump center, posthumous pardons Jack Johnson, boxing's first black heavyweight champion, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 24, 2018. Trump is joined by, from left, Linda Haywood, who is Johnson's great-great niece, heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, Keith Frankel, Sylvester Stallone, former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, and World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman Saldivar. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Trump pardons legendary boxing champ Jack Johnson

by Jill Colvin Associated PressMay 24, 2018

In this Jan. 19, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks to participants of the annual March for Life event, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.

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Trump thrusts abortion fight into crucial midterm elections

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressMay 19, 2018

White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Monday, May 14, 2018. Shah discussed the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a White House aide who dismissed Sen. John McCain's opposition on the president's nominee to be CIA director saying, "he's dying anyway," and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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White House not sorry for crass dig at McCain

by Jonathan Lemire Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressMay 17, 2018