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Top Homeland Security officials hit back Friday at viral claims that a 5-year-old boy was used as “bait” to arrest his father and then detained by ICE in Minnesota earlier this week. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) head Marcos Charles said the little boy, identified as Liam Conejo Ramos, was abandoned in a car by his illegal migrant father as federal officers attempted to arrest the dad Tuesday as part of a targeted operation. Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled ICE on foot, leaving his son behind, the ICE official said.

Just because, in wild desperation, you link the TEA Party movement to today’s anniversary of the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing does not make it so, or me a terrorist. I will not blow up a federal building today, or any day. I will not threaten violence upon a politician today, or any day. I will not incite others to break laws to achieve victory in this epic struggle between our desire to return America to its founding principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility and free-market enterprise and your soft tyranny and oppressive seizure of private life and industry...

- Congressional Democrats unveiled their energy policy Tuesday, but party leaders from the Senate and the House of Representatives could not agree on when -- or even if -- the U.S. would achieve independence from foreign oil. "Democrats have real plans that would end our dependence on foreign oil in the long term -- and we intend to do it within 10 years," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the beginning of the event. Just a few minutes later, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who was identified at the press conference as "the Senate Democrats' point person on energy...