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The Capitol Rotunda is seen with the statue of George Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, ahead of the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump. From the rarified air President Donald Trump breathes, the state of the American union looks just fine.
During President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, the White House confirmed that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp will stay open. The announcement follows a leak of a plan to overturn President Obama's move to close it.
President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order announcing his intent to keep the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay open, the White House announced Tuesday. Trump made it clear during his 2016 campaign for president that he wanted to keep Guantanamo open and "load it up with some bad dudes."
President Donald Trump, facing sagging approval ratings in a midterm election year, is seeking to rally a deeply divided nation in Tuesday night's State of the Union address with optimism about the growing economy and calls for action on immigration, trade and infrastructure rebuilding. White House officials said Trump would appeal for bipartisanship, though it's unclear if his rhetoric will be matched by any real overtures to Democrats.
Bipartisan legislation that U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly helped introduce and pass in the Senate last fall to protect amateur athletes from sexual abuse passed the U.S. House of Representatives today. The Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act would require amateur athletics governing bodies to report sex-abuse allegations immediately to law enforcement or a child-welfare agency designated by the Justice Department.
Denea Joseph is a 23-year-old recent UCLA graduate who grew up in South Central Los Angeles. She's also undocumented, having moved to the United States from Belize when she was seven.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas Hall in Dallas. This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas Hall in Dallas.
Jaboree Williams was a pimp and drug dealer who brutally abused and psychologically tortured his victims. And thanks to the joint efforts of the FBI and local law enforcement, he will spend the next 30 years in federal prison.
In a campaign video ad produced for Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran , an "illegal immigrant" wearing a hoodie is depicted shooting a young, red-haired woman who is walking through a suburban neighborhood as she smiles and texts on her phone. In a voice-over, Corcoran says, "This could have happened to any family, anywhere," and added, "Incredibly, some Tallahassee politicians want to make Florida a sanctuary state."
October, 2013, a drug dealer in Los Angeles nicknamed Dreamer organized an international conference call with members of MS-13, the Salvadoran-American street gang. There are roughly ten thousand MS-13 members in the United States, and some fifty thousand spread throughout Central America, but the gang is diffuse and disorganized, grouped in a loose patchwork of local chapters known as cliques.
Illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens are being swept up by ICE agents on their first attempts to gain residency in a ramp-up of the crackdown on migrants, according to Bay State lawyers. "It's cold.
Gov. John Bel Edwards makes a point while speaking at the annual meeting of Jump Start, which allows high school students to get workforce training in addition to regular academic classes, Tuesday Jan. 23, 2018, in Baton Rouge, La. It's not exactly breaking news that Gov. John Bel Edwards' 2105 election didn't usher in a Democratic wave in Louisiana.
But the fact that somebody in the president's National Security Council was at least thinking about it shows how seriously the administration is taking America's technological competition with China, and the immense potential of next-generation wireless technology. The teacup-sized tempest began Sunday night, when the online news service Axios published a startling report based on an NSC memo and PowerPoint presentation.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas Hall in Dallas. less This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows William Rayford, who is scheduled for execution Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, for the 1999 killing of his ex-girlfriend Carol Lynn Thomas ... more HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Carol Lynn Thomas Hall knew William Rayford had spent time in prison for killing his estranged wife but defended her own relationship with him, telling relatives she believed it was her Christian duty to give the parolee a second chance.
Adm. Paul Zukunft , a 1977 graduate of the US Coast Guard Academy who is now the Coast Guard commandant, assumed command of the 88,000-strong force on May 30, 2014, overseeing a military branch that patrols from Guam in the Pacific to Puerto Rico in the Atlantic and from north of the Arctic Circle to south of the equator. Business Insider sat down with Zukunft at the Coast Guard's Washington, DC, headquarters at the end of December to discuss his time as commandant, how his approach to leading the service changed during his tenure, and how the force had adapted to new threats.
In this Jan. 15, 2018 photo, Honduras' new national Police Chief Jose David Aguilar Moran, center, leaves after a ceremony that transferred command to him in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. When Aguilar took over as Honduras' new national police chief, he promised to continue reforming a law enforcement agency stained by corruption and complicity with drug cartels, but a confidential government security report obtained by the Associated Press says Aguilar himself helped a cartel leader pull off the delivery of nearly a ton of cocaine in 2013.
Progressive People's Party 2016 parliamentary candidate for Obuasi East in the Ashanti Region, Frank Aboagye Denyansah has called on former President John Dramani Mahama to adopt the two ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees brought into the country while he was in office as his sons and keep them at his home. "Let John Mahama or any other NDC member adopt them as their sons to stay with them", the outspoken PPP communicator said.