Spotlight: U.S. House Republicans delay voting on immigration bill amid chaos

U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan holds a press conference on the immigration bill on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., the United States, on June 21, 2018. Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday delayed a vote on a "moderate" immigration bill amid chaos over the White House practice of separating families who illegally cross the U.S. border.

FBI joins investigation into suspicious powder sent to office of Caroline Nokes

THE FBI have joined the investigation after a suspicious package sent to Romsey's MP brought the town to a standstill two months ago. The office of Romsey and Southampton North MP Caroline Nokes was quarantined in April after a potentially dangerous substance was found within a letter sent to the Immigration Minister.

Texas Senators Ted Cruz, John Cornyn to visit border facilities in Weslaco Friday

Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are expected to tour immigrant detention facilities for children in South Texas and hold a roundtable at the Weslaco Border Patrol Station Friday afternoon, according to a press release from the office of Cornyn. The roundtable will include representatives from federal agencies involved in the process of receiving, detaining and adjudicating immigrant families, as well as non-profits and local elected officials.

The Latest: Separated 7-year-old, migrant mom are reunited

The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents following President Donald Trump's order allowing them to remain with their parents : Kansas' child welfare agency has concluded after an inspection that immigrant children housed in Topeka group homes are "having their needs met." Spokeswoman Taylor Forrest issued an email statement Friday evening after the state Department for Children and Families completed an inspection of The Villages homes on a 400-acre site outside Topeka.

Begich, Dunleavy, Hawkins & Treadwell Offer Gubernatorial Campaign Remarks

Your Alaska Link checked in with 2018 gubernatorial candidates Mead Treadwell, Mark Begich, Mike Dunleavy and Scott Hawkins about their campaign run and what they want for the great state of Alaska. As Dunleavy states, "I think it's good for the people of Alaska to have folks in a Primary so they have somebody to choose froma some of the folks that just got in are kind of on the left side of the spectrum, and there's others like myself that are on the right side of the spectrum, so people have an opportunity to chose."

UK honors ‘Windrush generation’ amid scandal over their immigration status

LONDON Friday marks 70 years since the MV Empire Windrush docked here with nearly 500 people from Caribbean nations ready to help rebuild Britain after the ravages of World War II. But this year's Windrush Day celebration is marred by an ongoing political scandal over suddenly classifying these long-term residents and descendants from former British colonies as illegal immigrants.

MPs warn that fast fashion also has a ‘huge’ impact on the planet

Children of illegal immigrants claim they were pepper sprayed and strapped to chairs at detention centers as details of 'cruel' treatment emerge from lawsuits filed against government Former Sex and the City star-turned gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon brands ICE a 'terrorist organization' and calls for it to be abolished MPs warn that fast fashion also has a 'huge' impact on the planet as much as bags, bottles and microbeads They say cheap, throwaway clothing is having a 'huge' impact on the planet with the use of toxic chemicals and production of climate-changing emissions.

GOP Rep. Mike Coffman to Trump: The time has come to fire Stephen Miller

Yeah, good luck with that, buddy. If Corey Lewandowski could earn brownie points with Trump just by womp-womping at the misfortune of a little girl, how many brownie points has Miller earned by spearheading the child separation policy? By the logic of TrumpWorld, maximum "political incorrectness" is a virtue even it produces a political fiasco that you're forced to hurriedly undo for fear of the political consequences.

Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist and pundit, dies

Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from "Great Society" Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to denouncer of Donald Trump, has died at age 68. His death was announced Thursday by two longtime employers, Fox News Channel and The Washington Post. Krauthammer had said publicly a year ago he was being treated for a cancerous tumor in his abdomen and earlier this month revealed that he likely had just weeks to live.

DOA? Mulvaney rolls out proposal to consolidate Labor, Education, food safety

What came first - the USDA-regulated chicken or the FDA-regulated egg ? OMB director Mick Mulvaney wants to end that question entirely by eliminating silly overlaps in government. The White House rolled out its long-awaited government reform program, which headlines a consolidation of the Departments of Labor and Education into one Cabinet-level office.