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The Obama administration is pushing back against a federal judge’s order sanctioning government lawyers for misleading the court about the implementation dates for executive amnesty. In a court filing Tuesday, the Justice Department argued that District Court Judge Andrew Hanen “far exceed the bounds of appropriate remedies for what this Court concluded were intentional misrepresentations” when he ordered government lawyers to undergo ethics training and turn over the immigration records of the illegal immigrants who benefited from the government’s implementation snafu.

Within eight hours of the initial attack on the United States' diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, the CIA decided to scrub and abandon rather than protect its annex, a military intelligence source told Fox News. “The defensive posture was no longer sustainable," the source told Fox News, revealing for the first time how quickly the CIA chose to secure classified material and close down the facility after it took indirect fire from two mortars at about 5:15 a.m. local time Sept. 12. The adjoining U.S. consulate, by contrast, has never been secured, even three months after the attack. The process...

Authorities arrested a 44-year-old man Friday who they suspect set nine fires in two days south of Sierra Vista. Mario Martinez Gurrola of Mexicali, Mexico, was arrested early Friday after four vehicles - including a tractor-trailer rig - and a mobile home were torched Wednesday, according to a news release from the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. Evidence from the scenes in the communities of Hereford and Palominas, as well as similarities the fires shared, led the Sheriff's Department, Bisbee police and the fire officials to conduct an undercover operation Thursday night, the release said. That night, four more vehicles in...