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The U.S. government risks placing migrant children in the custody of human traffickers because federal agencies have delayed crucial reforms needed to keep the children safe, according to the findings of a Senate subcommittee obtained by The Associated Press. Federal officials came under fire two years ago for rolling back child welfare policies meant to protect unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America, and lawmakers said Thursday that the agencies had yet to take full responsibility for the children's care in the United States.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Erick Davila. Attorneys for the Texas death row inmate want the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution this week for the shooting deaths of a 5-year-old girl and her grandmother during a birthday party 10 years ago outside a Fort Worth apartment.
Public Broadcasting Service's Frontline television documentary series this week will revisit the arrest and conviction of several individuals who smuggled Central American teens into the country and forced them to work at Trillium Farms' Ohio egg production facilities. "Trafficked in America," a joint effort of Frontline and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley, includes an interview with the man who allegedly organized the labor trafficking and who has since been arrested.
One and a half million children die each year from vaccine-preventable diseases . This is because 1 in 5 children in the world still lacks access to the basic childhood vaccines we take for granted in the United States.
A woman who is seeking asylum has her fingerprints taken by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at a pedestrian port of entry from Mexico to the United States, in McAllen, Tex., on May 10, 2017. UNLIKE DEFENDANTS charged with crimes, illegal immigrants under threat of deportation - a civil proceeding - have no right to a lawyer.
Corporate media outlets were glad that the US, France and Britain bombed Syria in violation of international law , but lamented what they see as a dearth of US violence in the country. In The Atlantic , Thanassis Cambanis described the war crime as "undoubtedly a good thing," and called for "sustained attention and investment, of diplomatic, economic and military resources"-though the latter rubbed up against his assessment in the same paragraph that "a major regional war will only make things worse."
Defensive gun use happens more regularly in the United States than gun crimes, according to data the Centers for Disease Control never publicized. Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck has been arguing that point for a quarter of a century, saying that his own research led him to believe that DGU was far more prevalent than gun-control advocates claim.
FBI special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election might not have anything to do with the election any longer but instead where his business financing had come from, the Fusion GPS Founders' wrote in The New York Times op-ed Saturday titled "The Business Deals That Could Imperil Trump." The premise of Fusion GPS founders Peter Fritsch and Glenn R. Simpson's op-ed is Trump needed cash after his business bankruptcies ruled out American funding and forced him to some sketchy, wealthy foreign sources, including Russians, who "might have been entangled in foreign corruption."
Ramzi bin al-Shibh, the alleged deputy plotter of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is being held in an isolation cell with only a prayer rug and Koran - no bed and no running water - as punishment for protesting conditions in his Guantanamo confinement, his lawyer said on Saturday. Bin al-Shibh, 45, has for years claimed that somebody is causing his cell to vibrate and making noises in a campaign of sleep deprivation reminiscent of his 2002-2006 abuse in CIA custody.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused the U.S. government of arrogance and belligerence, saying that Washington needed "a change in attitude" before any meaningful negotiations can begin over several U.S. citizens being held prisoner in Iran. "It is important... for the administration to show the ability to engage in a respectful dialogue," Zarif said.
A Utah man will serve five years and three months in federal prison after he robbed three banks in three states last fall, officials said. Gregory Jerome Brown, of Bountiful, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The driver of a tractor-trailer found in Texas last summer packed with dozens of undocumented immigrants, 10 of whom died, was sentenced Friday to life without parole in a federal prison. James Matthew Bradley Jr., 61, pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to transport aliens resulting in death and one count of transporting aliens resulting in death.
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A truck driver was sentenced to life in federal prison without parole for a smuggling scheme that ended in the deaths of 10 immigrants who hid in his pitch-dark cargo trailer in the summer heat. James Matthew Bradley Jr., 61, of Clearwater, Fla., pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to transport aliens resulting in death and one count of transporting aliens resulting in death.
ATMORE, Ala. - An Alabama man convicted of sending mail bombs during a wave of Southern terror has been executed for killing a federal judge, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in modern times.
A federal appeals court in Illinois upheld a nationwide injunction Thursday that blocks the Trump administration from withholding federal money to hundreds of "sanctuary cities" in the United States. The grant money, which comes from a program called the Byrne JAG, is the primary provider of federal criminal justice funding to state and local governments.
An Alabama inmate convicted of the mail-bomb slaying of a federal judge during a wave of Southern terror in 1989 has been executed as the oldest prisoner put to death in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in the 1970s. Walter Leroy Moody Jr, 83, was pronounced dead at 8.42pm local time on Thursday following an injection at the Alabama prison at Atmore.
This photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Walter Leroy Moody. A federal appeals court has rejected the death row inmate's argument that Moody must serve out his federal sentence before Alabama can put him to death for the 1989 killing of a federal judge.