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Moving the deadline up two weeks comes amid another surge in new cases, especially among young adults.

Hastings, who had been serving his 15th term in Congress, was impeached and removed in 1989 as a federal judge before his congressional career.

CBP wouldn't give the total number of people stopped at the border whose names were on terror or no-fly lists, but said the incidents are "very uncommon."

NBC News is tracking the progress made and the time that's left to meet the administration's goal.

“There's so much trauma when you lose a loved one in that way," said Mucarsel-Powell, whose father died at the hands of a gunman, and who is now a senior adviser with the gun advocacy group Giffords.

“If this Administration is truly committed to ensuring that our courts reflect the communities they serve, they will need to nominate more Hispanic candidates." 

The government is planning multiple opportunities for the public to weigh in on how schools should respond when a student reports sexual misconduct.

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Utah appears to be the first state to mandate prenatal child support, according to the state’s Planned Parenthood association and the bill’s sponsor

In a letter sent to the team, Abbott said he will no longer participate and that Texas won't seek to host any future MLB events.

"This would be and is a vast government overreach," Gov. Asa Hutchinson said of the bill.