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  • Federal agency says it lost track of 1,475 migrant children

    GARANCE BURKE|Apr 27, 2018

    Federal officials lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year after a government agency placed the minors in the homes of adult sponsors in communities across the country, according to testimony before a Senate subcommittee Thursday. The Health and Human Services Department has a limited budget to track the welfare of vulnerable unaccompanied minors, and realized that 1,475 children could not be found after making follow-up calls to check on their safety, an agency official said. Federal officials came under fire two years ago after...

  • National security aide Sebastian Gorka leaves White House

    GARANCE BURKE and CATHERINE LUCEY|Aug 25, 2017

    WASHINGTON (AP) — White House national security aide Sebastian Gorka tells The Associated Press he has resigned from his position. A White House official, however, says Gorka did not resign but "no longer works at the White House." That official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Gorka is declining to discuss the reasons he has left the White House, but is pointing toward excerpts from his resignation letter that were posted Friday evening by The Federalist website. Gorka wrote that "the i...