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Terrified families trapped in rising Florence floods plead for help and admit they were wrong to ignore evacuation orders, as race against time begins for rescuers with 920K without power, five dead and hundreds of 911 calls coming in just one day Mom of MS-13 victim, who became an anti-gang crusader and was recognized by Trump at the State of the Union, is mowed down and killed at her daughter's memorial Kate's mission to rescue kids at risk: Duchess of Cambridge launches her first solo charity campaign to help disadvantaged children Ten-year-old Alaska girl is found dead eight days after she went missing from park in remote Eskimo town Three teens are arrested for shooting dead dad-of-one, 34, after he mistook their car for his Uber outside Atlanta wedding Husband who 'murdered his wife in Louisiana and fled the country with their daughter is arrested in Mexico after seven years' 'We ... (more)

Duckworth fears migrant kids at shelter are hungry and scared

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth raised concerns about an organization that cares for migrant children separated from their parents Monday, saying she worried they were hungry and stressed. Heartland Alliance runs a number of shelters in the Chicago area, primarily for unaccompanied minors -- children who arrive in the U.S. from other countries without an adult.

Russian immigrant running for US House seat in Alaska Source: AP

Born in the Soviet Union, Shein recalls standing in bread lines with his grandfather. After moving to Alaska in the early 1990s, he and his mother, who had married a man in Anchorage, wound up living in a shelter and on public assistance when the marriage soured.

11 kids removed after rural New Mexico compound searched

This Friday, Aug. 3, 2018, aerial photo released by Taos County Sheriff's Office shows a rural compound during an unsuccessful search for a missing 3-year-old boy in Amalia, N.M. Law enforcement officers searching the compound for the missing child didn't locate him but found 11 other children in filthy conditions and hardly any food, a sheriff said Saturday.

New Mexico sheriff: Compound searched, 11 kids removed

Law enforcement officers searching a rural northern New Mexico compound for a missing 3-year-old boy didn't locate him but found 11 other children in filthy conditions and hardly any food, a sheriff said Saturday. The children ranging in age from 1 to 15 were removed from the compound in the small community of Amalia, New Mexico, and turned over to state child-welfare workers, Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.

Top HHS official warned Trump administration against separating immigrant families

A top Health and Human Services official told Congress on Tuesday that he and others repeatedly warned the Trump administration that its policy of separating immigrant families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border would not be in "the best interest of the child." "During the deliberative process over the previous year, we raised a number of concerns in the program about any policy which would result in family separation due to concerns we had about the best interest of the child as well as about whether that would be operationally supportable with the bed capacity that we have," Jonathan White, with the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, told lawmakers at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

All That’s Left Is the Vote

The midterm elections are the last obstacle to Trump's consolidation of power - and the greatest obstacle to voting is the feeling that it doesn't matter. In the haze of summer, with books still to be read, weeds pulled, kids retrieved from camp, it's a little hard to fathom that, three months from now, American democracy will be on the line.

Children’s Meal Program Keeps Expanding In Alachua County

Every year, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service funds a national summer food service program which helps feed children 18 and under during the summer break from school. Alachua County Public Schools is the sponsor for sites in the county with its Food and Nutrition department.

U.S. to update judge as deadline looms to reunite migrant kids

FILE PHOTO: Immigrant children walk in single file at the facility near the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Mike B - The U.S. government will update a federal judge on Tuesday about its efforts to meet a Thursday deadline for reuniting roughly 2,500 immigrant children and parents who were separated by officials as they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trump administration seeks to stop ‘climate kids’ lawsuit

The Trump administration has gone to the U.S. Supreme Court in its effort to stop a lawsuit filed by young activists who say the government is failing to protect them from climate change. Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the court Tuesday to block further legal proceedings until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the government's latest request to have the lawsuit dismissed.

Trump Says Border Policy Mirrors Obama’s, Denigrates Immigration

President Donald Trump falsely claimed that his administration hadn't implemented new policies leading to the separation of children from their parents at the U.S. border, and said immigration is changing Europe "and I don't mean in a positive way." Trump was told during an interview on Air Force One with British journalist Piers Morgan that protests against his visit across the U.K. were a response to his administration's policy of child separation.

Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry

Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually - a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million dollars in 2017.