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The Homeland Security Department said Monday wealthy financier William Browder, a British citizen who lobbied for a law targeting Russian officials over human rights, was cleared for travel to the United States on Oct. 18, four days before he says he was denied entry into the U.S. Browder tweeted on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin placed him on an Interpol travel list and the U.S. had simultaneously revoked his visa. His comments drew outrage from congressional Republicans and Democrats who immediately demanded answers from American officials.
Former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Jones, left, and Steven Feldstein, Frank and Bethine Church chair of public affairs at Boise State University and a former deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state, were among the speakers at the 34th annual Frank Church Conference at BSU on Monday, Oct. 23, 2017 in Boise. BOISE - The United States has helped create the current worldwide refugee crisis, former Idaho Supreme Court Justice Jim Jones said Monday, and it needs to step up to help solve it.
As a response to President Donald Trump about the problems and dangers to American citizens that sanctuary cities presented, the Democratic leadership, endorsed by Gov. Jerry Brown, passed a new law making California itself a sanctuary state. Prior to this new law, there were some 35 cities across California that were identified as sanctuary cities, although several of those cities subsequently disputed that label.
The fate of Bowe Bergdahl - the Army sergeant who pleaded guilty to endangering his comrades by leaving his post in 2009 in Afghanistan - now rests in the hands of a judge. A sentencing hearing for Bergdahl starts Monday at Fort Bragg and is expected to feature dramatic testimony about soldiers and a Navy SEAL badly hurt while they searched for the missing Bergdahl, who was held captive for five years by Taliban allies after leaving his post.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will appear Monday before the judge deciding his punishment for endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009.
Two prominent Republicans last week warned that the United States is embracing division over unity and cruelty over idealism. The citizens and leaders of this great nation should take heed.
Workers prepared the 79-foot Pacific Paradise commercial fishing vessel for salvage off the shore of Waikiki on Thursday. The boat ran aground while transporting foreign fishermen to work in Hawaii's commercial fishing industry and has raised new questions about the safety and working conditions for foreign laborers in the U.S. fleet.
This past May, the entire world saw the photos and videos of Cuban dissident Daniel Llorente as he ran onto the May Day parade route in Havana waving a U.S. flag. The brave protestor was quickly caught and in front of the crowds and cameras, beaten and arrested.
Today, it seems as if that "detention facility" will have a far longer life than I ever imagined and that it, and everything it represents, will become a true, if grim, legacy of twenty-first-century America. It appears that we just can't escape the perpetual pendulum of the never-ending war on terror as it invariably swings away from the rule of law and the protections of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court of the United States halted the execution of Alabama inmate Torrey McNabb minutes before it was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday. McNabb was found guilty of killing veteran Montgomery police officer Anderson Gordon in September 1997.
October 19 - An honor long overdue was awarded to one Vietnam Veteran Thursday morning at the Illinois National Guard Army Aviation Support Facility at the Decatur Airport. From August 1971, to March 1972, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Kenneth Carlock served as an artillery forward observer, which from the very front lines, advised his commander on artillery fire support.
A Tunnel Boulevard man has been sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison for selling large amounts of marijuana and being a convicted felon in possession of weapons. On Sept.
Grieving aunt of slain US Special Forces hero who was killed in Niger ambush slams President Trump's 'heartless and disgusting' remarks to his widow Nine-month-old boy undergoing chemotherapy for a brain tumor is REJECTED coverage by insurance company because they claim the treatment is 'unnecessary' One in five women who use sunbeds are 'tanorexics' - and it is most common in girls with depression, study warns ISIS fanatics 'plotting new 9/11': Homeland Security chief says jihadists are working on a 'big explosion' and want to bring down planes to inflict mass civilian casualties Aaron Hernandez's estate sues NFL helmet manufacturer for his 'horrendous existence' due to the rare form of CTE he suffered before taking his own life after murder conviction Man who sparked a massive manhunt is arrested in Delaware after 'shooting dead three co-workers and injuring two others' at a Baltimore ... (more)
A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man known as the Houston area's "Tourniquet Killer" so authorities can investigate an alleged scheme in which the inmate says a fellow death row prisoner asked him to confess to another killing. Anthony Allen Shore was scheduled to be given a lethal injection Wednesday evening, but the judge withdrew the execution warrant at prosecutors' request just hours before Shore was set to die.
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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl returns to the Fort Bragg courthouse after a lunch break on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, on Fort Bragg, N.C. Bergdahl, who walked off his base in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban for five years, is charged with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. By JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Army Sgt.
A pilot who was pulled off an airplane in Traverse City, MI in August of last year has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for operating an aircraft while intoxicated. The incident occurred before the plane left Traverse City, and his lawyer tried to argue that the pilot, 35-year-old Sean Michael Fitzgerald, had not operated the airplane under the influence because it had been sitting at the gate and no passengers had boarded when he was removed from the aircraft with a blood-alcohol level of 0.34 percent.
FILE In this April 7, 2017 file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington. - The Supreme Court is intervening in a digital-age privacy dispute between the Trump administration and Microsoft over emails stored abroad.