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The nation's highest court took up a Texas-led immigration case that challenges the White House's border policy.

Now that Twitter is swapping hands, we take a look at the platform's impact on politics both past and future. Did Twitter play a role in the 2020 election, and what role might it play in 2022?

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President Joe Biden announced three pardons and commuted dozens of sentences as part of a White House initiative launching job training and reentry programs for prisoners.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy led a GOP delegation to the southern border this week. In a press conference on the banks of the Rio <span class="nanospell-typo" data-cke-bogus="true">Grande,</span> he appealed to keep Title 42 and criticized Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro <span class="nanospell-typo" data-cke-bogus="true">Mayorkas</span> over the uncontrolled influx of illegal migrants.

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