WASHINGTON — Under increasing political pressure, President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that temporarily prevents the separation of families prosecuted for illegally crossing the border. “We’re going to keep the families together,” he added. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. At the same time, we are keeping a very powerful border and it…
The country has the highest murder rate in the world for young people under 19.
“He became extremely lethargic, loss all color that was left, became extremely nauseous,” she wrote.
Plastic straws account for 40 percent of plastics in the ocean, according to Greenpeace. Getty Seattle residents will be sipping their drinks a bit differently this summer, with biodegradable straws instead of plastic ones. The Emerald City will become the first major U.S. metropolitan area to enact a ban on plastic straw and utensils when the law goes into…
“There’s the beautiful quote by Dr. King that says the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice,” he continued.
The chance of rain and storms won’t go away for a while
President Trump says he will sign an executive order Wednesday afternoon ending family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Deputies and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation filed an affidavit detailing the allegation against Molly Wray on Wednesday.
President Trump on Wednesday claimed House Republicans “laughed loudly” in a Tuesday night meeting on Capitol Hill over comments he made about Rep. Mark Sanford, the South Carolina Republican who lost his primary after Mr. Trump blasted him on Twitter hours before the polls closed on the day of the primary. But multiple Republicans in the meeting, both before and…
LOS ANGELES — David George fought back tears as he spoke publicly on Wednesday for the first time since he shot and killed a gunman who opened fire in a Walmart in Tumwater, Washington, on Sunday. “The gunman came past me waving and pointing his gun and he exited the building,” he recalled. But the church pastor was also legally…
Agents arrested 146 people in one of the largest workplace immigration raids in recent years.
KidsandCars.org counts 18 child heatstroke deaths in vehicles in Mississippi from 1995 to 2016.
In a shift from previous policy, families prosecuted will now be held together during the process of prosecution and deportation at the border.
Endia Martin Family photo via CBS Chicago CHICAGO — A Chicago teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting another 14-year-old girl in a street fight in 2014 that escalated from a Facebook feud over a boy will be eligible for parole in April next year. The teen, who turns 19 next month, struggled to hold back tears as she read a…
The Clooneys said, “We can’t change this administration’s policy but we can help defend the victims of it.”
The girl said the house had so much dust she couldn’t breathe, and that she hadn’t taken a bath in more than a year, Comstock reported.
The strategy and action plan says it is intended to “inform” policy development and that future funding “will be determined through the budget process.”
The Facebook user who posted it claimed to be a friend of a flight attendant whose coworker initially wrote about the incident
Since Kilauea first started erupting weeks ago, many people have had to evacuate and hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
A number of local governments elsewhere in Mississippi have stopped flying the flag.
A look at GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s critical comments of Trump Few Republicans have criticized Trump more strongly than former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who is seeking his old job. In 2016, Pawlenty said Trump was “unsound, uninformed, unhinged and unfit to be president of the United States” in the days after a recording of the presidential candidate making vulgar comments…
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday responded to the Trump administration’s decision to separate children and parents who cross the southern border, shortly before President Trump announced he would be signing an executive order to put an end to the practice for now. The Trump administration’s policy, which Mr. Trump and his administration had blamed on Democrats, has been severely…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria ripped away part of the steel roof from Carmen Lidia Torres Mercado’s home in the Puerto Rican capital. Nine months later, she is still relying on a blue plastic tarp to protect her home, even with a new storm season already two weeks old. Torres points out where rain seeps into the bedroom…
Around 4:30 Tuesday, police stopped a car travelling East on I-22. Police Chief Chris Robertson says 21 lbs of marijuana was found inside.