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Unidad Latina en Accion will hold a protest Thursday in front of the federal courthouse in New Haven in response to the 4-4 ruling by the Supreme Court that blocks President Barack Obama's immigration plan. In November 2014, President Obama released a plan to keep millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.
On Tuesday, in a crowded room in New York City, city councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland whipped out a small, wrapped tampon and waved it in the air. She did not sneak it from her purse or secretly shove it up her shirt sleeve.
Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, middle, reports to the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., on Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in a to serve a 15-month sentence. CHICAGO – Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert wheeled himself into a federal prison in Minnesota on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys while a high school wrestling coach in Illinois.
A man from Yemen who spent the past 14 years in custody at Guantanamo Bay has been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Montenegro, the Pentagon said Wednesday, marking the start of what is expected to be a new round of releases from the U.S. base in Cuba. U.S. officials cleared Abdel Malik Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi for release in December 2014 after an intensive security review.
A frontal boundary will trigger scattered showers and thunderstorms rom the Southwest to the Central Plains and east over the No... . This is the Weather Underground forecast for Thursday, June 23, 2016 for the central region of the United States.
EFF and privacy activists oppose Rule 41 changes, while the Department of Justice claims that the changes do not alter 'traditional protections' under Fourth Amendment. The fight over changes to Rule 41 kicked into high gear this week as privacy rights activists and tech firms joined forces to protest the changes in an open letter to Congressional leaders, urging them to block the changes before they become permanent at the end of the year.
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert arrived at a Minnesota prison on Wednesday to serve his 15-month sentence in a hush-money case involving revelations that he sexually abused at least four boys when he coached wrestling at an Illinois high school. The 74-year-old Illinois Republican - one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison - arrived around noon at the facility in Rochester where he will be known as Inmate No.
Hastert's attorney says that he will report to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota t... . FILE - In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse in Chicago.
Once again Donald Trump has opened a dialogue about a controversial issue. As he did with illegal immigration, he has brought to the forefront his desire to keep Americans safe by temporarily banning Muslims from entering the U.S. His critics are from the left and right, calling him a divider and a racist.
New York's governor demanded an investigation Tuesday into allegations that a lane in one of the traffic-clogged tunnels connecting Manhattan to New Jersey was shut down as a special favor to a politically connected businessman accused of paying bribes to police commanders. Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed the inspector generals for both the state and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to conduct investigations to figure out what role, if any, the Port Authority played in allowing the closure at the Lincoln Tunnel.
In this April 27, 2016, file photo, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse in Chicago. Hastert's attorney says that he will report to a federal prison in southeastern Minnesota this week to begin serving a 15-month sentence in his hush-money case.
Gun measures failed in the U.S. Senate on Monday. less AR-15, semi-automatic, magazine-fed rifle: The AR-15 has become the preferred instruments of mass killing in the United States, notably at San Barnardino, California, last December, and Orlando, Florida, ... more The Republican-run U.S. Senate on Monday rejected a pair of gun violence proposals, refusing to bar sales of firearms to persons who have been on a terrorist watch list, or tightening criminal background checks.
There's not enough evidence to support federal criminal charges in the case of a teenager found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat at a Georgia high school, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave voice to what hundreds of thousands of people of color have experienced when being stopped and harassed by police. Earlier today, the Supreme Court made a terrible decision to allow evidence obtained by police who've made an unlawful stop be considered in an arrest resulting from that stop.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the European Union can't pursue a lawsuit accusing tobacco giant R.J Reynolds of taking part in a global money-laundering scheme that sponsored cigarette-smuggling in Europe. In a 4-3 ruling, the justices said the EU has no right to sue in U.S. courts because federal racketeering laws don't allow recovery for injuries occurring outside the United States.
The Florida man who pleaded guilty to a felony after landing a gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol last year began serving his 120-day sentence in a Florida prison on Tuesday. He granted CNN exclusive interviews during his final hours of freedom.
It's been six months since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some 2,500 "juvenile lifers" could seek a chance at parole for their childhood crimes, but only a few aging inmates have walked out of prison. Public defenders fear many will need the blessing of a judge, a parole board and perhaps the victim's family, even after Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that only the "rarest of children" are so "incorrigible" they should never go free.
Jackie Lee Thompson poses for a portrait Tuesday June 7, 2016 near Wellsboro, Pa. Thompson, 61, appears to be the first of Pennsylvania's approximately 500 juvenile lifers released since the Supreme Court ruling in January.
Witnesses see the boys break out the large patio glass doors of a house near the canyon with rocks. The damage to the glass doors is substantial and expensive.