Trump administration offers unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily leave US, letter shows
By Christian Martinez LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 to leave the U.S. voluntarily, according to a letter seen by Reuters that was sent to migrant shelters. Officials at the Department
Education Department altered employees’ emails to blame shutdown on Democrats, lawsuit says
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal workers’ union filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging the Trump administration’s alteration of furloughed U.S. Department of Education employees’ out-of-office email messages to include language blaming Democrats in the U.S. Senate
US escalates criticism of Colombia’s president at the UN, calls for action against drug trafficking
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States accused Colombia’s president on Friday of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by “narco-terrorist groups” a priority. U.S. Ambassador Mike
Federal appeals court rules Trump administration can’t end birthright citizenship
BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for
Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas
SEATTLE (AP) — In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal
A Black champion boxer was held by police at gunpoint. The police chief says he gets the outrage
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The police chief of Nebraska’s largest city acknowledged Friday that police nationwide are more likely to pull Black people out of their cars at gunpoint than other racial groups as Omaha grapples with
Judge sets 14-day deadline for appointment of new prosecutor in Georgia election case against Trump
ATLANTA (AP) — The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others says he will dismiss the case in 14 days if a new prosecutor hasn’t been appointed to take it over.
A hurricane sank a Spanish fleet in 1715. This summer, salvagers found $1M in coins
A team of excavators has uncovered a load of long-lost Spanish coins buried for centuries under the surf and sand along a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.” This week, shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet
Portland braces for federal troops as protests escalate and a conservative influencer is arrested
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for its history of civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal
Government funding vote fails again in Senate as hopes fade for quick end to shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown faded Friday as Democrats refused to budge in a Senate vote and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal