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The Department of Health and Human Services is urging lawmakers to schedule visits to detention centers housing migrant children instead of showing up at the facilities unannounced.In a letter sent Tuesday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyOvernight Health Care: HHS pushes back on lawmaker visits to detention centers | Abortion rights group targets Susan Collins over Supreme Court | Judge blocks anti-abortion law in Arkansas HHS tries to clamp down on unannounced lawmaker visits to child detention centers Creates Act will bring lower priced prescription drugs to market for hardworking Americans MORE (R-Iowa) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob GoodlatteRobert (Bob) William GoodlatteOvernight Health Care: HHS pushes back on lawmaker visits to detention centers | Abortion rights group targets Susan Collins over Supreme Court | Judge blocks anti-abortion law in Arkansas HHS tries to clamp down on unannounced lawmaker visits to child detention centers Ariz.

HeadlineMar 13, 2018Defense Secretary James Mattis has arrived in Kabul for an unannounced trip to Afghanistan.His trip comes after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered to begin peace talks with the Taliban without precondition.

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray made an unannounced visit to Speaker Paul Ryan's office Wednesday as the Justice Department grapples with an increasingly hostile faction of House Republicans demanding documents related to the bureau's Russia probe.

23, 2017, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.23, 2017, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.