Costa Rica to accept 25 ‘third country’ deportees from US every week

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting
The Latest: Almost 500 TSA officers have quit during the shutdown

The latest proposal, made by Republican senators, would fund most of DHS but not the immigration enforcement and removal operations. The offer added some new restraints on immigration officers, including the use of body cameras, but excluded
Runway reopens at New York’s LaGuardia after fatal collision

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – One of two runways that has been closed since Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport after a fatal collision between an Air Canada Express plane and fire truck reopened Thursday ahead of schedule,
Brother and sister are charged after an explosive device was found outside a Florida Air Force base

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A man who fled to China and his sister have been charged after an explosive device was left outside a gate at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa this month. Alen Zheng,
Quadruple amputee cornhole player waives extradition hearing in fatal shooting case

CHARLOTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A professional cornhole player who’s also a quadruple amputee waived his right to an extradition hearing on Thursday, as authorities seek to move him from Virginia to Maryland, where he faces charges of
Doors were propped open at missing mother’s Arizona home, Savannah Guthrie recounts in interview

The back doors of Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home were found propped open and her phone and purse were still at the home when the 84-year-old disappeared, daughter Savannah Guthrie said in an interview that aired Thursday on
Trump administration opens investigations into three medical schools, NYT reports
WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has opened investigations into admissions policies at three major medical schools, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two administration officials and documents it reviewed. The Justice Department
LaGuardia Airport runway where plane collided with fire truck, killing 2, reopens

NEW YORK (AP) — The runway where a plane collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, killing the two pilots and injuring several others, reopened Thursday morning. The Port Authority of New York and
Washington’s cherry blossoms hit peak bloom, sending a fleeting burst of pink across the capital

It’s finally peak bloom for the airy pink cherry blossoms in Washington, a welcome sign of spring in a city of concrete and granite continuously weighed down by the necessary heft of the nation’s decision-making. The thousands
US fixed 30-year mortgage rate jumps to six-month high as Iran war drags on

WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) – The average rate on the popular U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has jumped to a six-month high as rising oil prices from the dragging Middle East war fanned inflation worries, which could weigh