The ruling by a federal judge on Sunday invalidates two directives issued by Cuccinelli at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that were designed to tighten federal asylum guidelines.
The 38-year-old rose from being mayor of a midsize Indiana city to mounting a serious Democratic presidential run. He was the first openly gay candidate to win delegates in a presidential race.
The former U.S. attorney general is making a play for his old Senate seat in Alabama, and despite his public falling out with the president tells voters there, "I've been with him from the start."
The former vice president won by nearly 30 points in South Carolina, giving him a big claim to being the principal alternative to Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.
NPR's Leila Fadel asks Higher Heights of America CEO Glynda Carr about the policy preferences of African American women, and whether those choices changed significantly as candidates court them.
NPR political correspondent Mara Liasson discusses the results from Saturday's primary in South Carolina and looks ahead to Super Tuesday, where 14 more states will vote.
Sen. Bernie Sanders could become the first Jewish president of the U.S. Yet he has angered many Jews with his criticism of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group.