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Latest push shows Democrats are worried about not looking tough enough on US southern border as polls show immigration a major concern for voters
Good morning, US politics blog readers. Senate Democrats will try once again to pass a bill to tighten immigration policy, which Donald Trump and his Republican allies killed earlier this year.
It is likely to be a fruitless effort. While the legislation may get through Congress’s Democratic-led upper chamber, the Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and his colleagues announced that the bill would be, once again, “dead on arrival” when it gets over to his side of the Capitol.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is expected to return to the witness stand for the final day of testimony in his business fraud trial. Follow our live blog for more.
Julian Assange won a court ruling in the UK that will allow him to again appeal his extradition to the United States on espionage charges.
The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor announced arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the leaders of Hamas. We have a live blog about that, too.
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