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Utah's chief law enforcement officer was deep in the fight against opioids when he realized that a lack of data on internet sales of Fentanyl was hindering investigations. So the officer, Keith D. Squires, the state's public safety commissioner, created a team of analysts to track and chronicle online distribution patterns of the drug.
If I'm peacefully marching and a person beside me throws a brick, who broke the law? In Washington, D.C., the capital of a nation of growing protest, the answer to that question should be relatively easy. Unfortunately, it's not.
To hear one of the most passionate arguments on behalf of young U.S. immigrant "dreamers," look south of the border. Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, has become known as an antagonist of President Donald Trump , using combative and profane language to rail against the president's character and his positions on binational issues, from plans to extend the border wall to restrictionist policies on immigration.
Facing possible deportation, Leonor Garcia, pictured in November, lives in a room at Forest Hill Presbyterian Church. The Cleveland Heights church has given the mother of four sanctuary.
Cassandra Stubbs, director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, speaks during the session, "A North American Perspective on the Death Penalty: The American, Mexican and Canadian Experiences," on Friday during the ABA Midyear Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. . When it comes to imposing the death penalty, the United States has long outpaced North American neighbors Canada and Mexico, according to the director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project.
Inside a vacant former maximum-security prison, the Pentagon has nearly finished building a new health clinic with nearby surgical and radiological suites. Soon, contractors will add furniture, equipment and put a padded cell in the facility's psych unit.
A federal judge in Austin sentenced three Houston men on Friday for a money laundering scheme involving millions of dollars, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. Nathaniel Itimi, 46, was ordered to 97 months in prison and also must pay more than $1.6 million in restitution.
Ostensibly, the purpose of the call was to thank Trump for intelligence the US provided Russia that helped them thwart a terrorist attack. Here's what the White House readout described.
A former Dallas accountant condemned for fatally shooting his two young daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone has been put to death in Texas. John David Battaglia received lethal injection Thursday night for the May 2001 killings of his 9-year-old daughter, Faith, and her 6-year-old sister, Liberty.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan, along with 15 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief in support of the City of Chicago in its lawsuit challenging the Department of Justice's efforts to punish so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions by putting immigration-related conditions on federal law enforcement grants. The attorneys general argue that the conditions far exceed DOJ's authority and interfere with the right of states and localities to set their own law enforcement policies.
Donald Trump's first State of the Union address, IPS Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis told the Real News Network after the speech, was "a campaign-style speech" designed to appease Trump's right-wing base. While the president mostly avoided foreign policy, she noted, the views he did express were "extremist positions that are guaranteed to be popular with his base."
The U.S. Census Bureau will not be adding a new ethnicity category in their 2020 survey that would help categorize people of Middle Eastern and North African decent. A research effort that spanned years, lead by ACCESS, Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans and the Office of Management & Budget, under the Obama administration, pushed to add a new category to the 2020 Census survey, called "Middle Eastern-North African," or "MENA."
It's part of a broader push by the network - backed by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch - to redouble its criminal justice reform efforts while embracing common ground with President Donald Trump and his administration, which have delivered mixed results at best for the unlikely alliances that have formed around changing the system. "We're going to meet people where they are," Mark Holden, a senior network official, told reporters here repeatedly - a kind of mantra for the network's eagerness to make progress on a host of policy issues in the Trump era.
Black lawmakers say that's the result of Trump repeatedly stirring racial controversies, from personally attacking two members of the caucus to casting equal blame on white supremacists and counterprotesters for fatal violence in Charlottesville, Va., last summer. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver , former head of the CBC, said the bitter feelings originated well before Trump arrived in office, when the real estate mogul began raising doubts about former President Obama's birthplace - and, by extension, his authority to be president.
One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with fictional horror character Slender Man is being sentenced for her role in the attack. Attorneys for a former Dallas accountant condemned for fatally shooting his two young daughters while their mother listened helplessly on the phone hoped a federal court would keep him from being put to death.
President Trump's executive order paving the way to send more terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is reversing more than a decade of U.S. policy aimed at winding down operations at the notorious prison. The "Gitmo" facility hasn't accepted a new detainee since June 2008 during the Bush administration, when Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani was sent there.
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. , speaks to members of the media outside federal court with his daughter Alicia Menendez in Newark, New Jersey, on Sept. 6, 2017.
The AP is fact-checking remarks from President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech. Here's a look at some of the claims we've examined : Most economists say wages should increase at a faster rate as the unemployment rate drops.
The FBI needed probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power, a standard that is not hard to meet. The controversy over FBI surveillance of Carter Page, who advised Donald Trump on foreign policy during his presidential campaign, tends to obscure how easy it is to get permission for a wiretap of a suspected foreign agent.