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As lawmakers clash over refugees, Syrian immigration quietly tops 100,000 since 2012 A proposal to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States has ignited a bitter debate in Washington, but more than 10 times that number of people from the embattled country have quietly come to America since 2012, according to... Read More Tax deal doles out year-end goodies for NASCAR tracks, racehorses, college students Congressional leaders agreed to a budget-busting set of tax cuts late Tuesday as part of a year-end, clear-the-decks deal that marks a major reversal from the last four years’ focus on deficits and streamlining the tax code. While the total... Read More Seeking action on guns, White House turns to governors Even as he prepares to take action on gun violence on his own authority, President Obama could turn to another source of potential source of executive action: The nation's governors. The White House is in talks with governors and other... Read More California DMV proposes ban on ‘driverless’ cars California regulators, calling for caution on self-driving cars, today proposed rules that would sharply restrict their use on the state’s roads -- and place an outright ban on “driverless” cars that travel with no humans onboard. Under the proposal by... Read More Judge Declares Mistrial of Baltimore Cop in Freddie Gray Case In what is a perceived legal blow for prosecutors, the jury was hung and the judge declared a mistrial in the trial of Baltimore police officer William Porter in the case of Freddie Gray's death after sustaining injuries while in... Read More Xi Jinping advocates for cyber sovereignty, defends ‘Great Firewall’ of China Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed during a summit in Zhejiang province on Wednesday that countries should respect one another’s “cyber sovereignty” and avoid prescribing online policies beyond their own borders. “We should respect the right of individual countries to independently... Read More