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The armed man who for more than an hour blocked a highway near the Hoover Dam with an armored truck and held a sign that said "Release the OIG report" is in an Arizona jail accused of several felonies, police said Saturday. Matthew Phillip Wright, 30, of Henderson, Nevada, is accused of terrorist acts, unlawful flight from law enforcement, carrying a weapon in the commission of a felony and misconduct involving weapons.
A bill reintroduced in Congress would require the federal government to buy flags made in the U.S. only with American-made materials. Titled the "All-American Flag Act," U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown introduced the legislation on Flag Day to commemorate the flag and its symbolism.
The Senate wants to turn up the pressure on President Donald Trump and his military chiefs to strike back against Russian hacking. The massive defense policy bill the Senate approved Monday night calls on Trump to curb Russian aggression in cyberspace.
President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policies on immigration have spurred a contentious and controversial debate across the country. Because of that, there is plenty of misinformation about the immigration rules and laws floating around the internet.
The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2018. Calls are mounting on Capitol Hill for the Trump administration to end the separation of families at the southern border ahead of a visit from President Donald Trump to discuss legislation.
Michael Horowitz, inspector general with the Department of Justice, left, and Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, swear in to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday. Michael Horowitz, inspector general with the Department of Justice, left, and Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, swear in to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Monday.
Modern conservatives (including elected Republicans) aren't very shy about advertising their racism and cruelty. It isn't hidden. You don't have to call a fire engine siren a "dog whistle." They don't bother with the dog whistles anymore.
U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela speaks during a roundtable discussion on immigrant children being stripped away from their parents and detained, some of them at Southwest Key Programs Casa Padre in Brownsville, Texas, Monday, June 18, 2018. Vela took a tour of the facility on Monday, with other dignitaries.
Wrenching scenes of migrant children being separated from their parents at the southern border are roiling campaigns ahead of midterm elections, emboldening Democrats on the often-fraught issue of immigration while forcing an increasing number of Republicans to break from President Donald Trump on an issue important to the GOP's most ardent supporters. Kim Schrier, a Democrat running for a House seat outside of Seattle, said Trump is pushing an "absolutely unethical, inhumane" policy.
Verizon is pledging to stop selling data through intermediaries that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned. It is the first major U.S. wireless carrier to step back from a business practice that has drawn criticism for endangering privacy.
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general demanded Tuesday that the Trump administration end a "zero tolerance" policy that has resulted in children being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Led by New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, 21 top state prosecutors from California to Massachusetts sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday, calling the policy inhumane and draconian.
Customs and Border Protection photo shows intake of illegal border crossers by US Border Patrol agents at the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas An innocuous, one-page pamphlet with silhouettes of adults holding hands with children provides a seemingly simple step-by-step guide for parents separated from their children after crossing the border. The information, in both Spanish and English, includes 1-800 numbers and email addresses for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's call center and the Office of Refugee Resettlement's "Parent Line."
Majority Whip Steve Scalise scores on a wild pitch thrown by Cedric Richmond during a Congressional baseball game. Scalise can be seen wearing a uniform from Archbishop Rummel High School, his alma mater.
Immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their parents under a new "zero tolerance" policy by the Trump administration, are being housed in tents next to the Mexican border in Tornillo, Texas, U.S. June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake The Trump administration defended its hardline immigration policy at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday as furor grew over the separation of immigrant parents and children, including video of youngsters sitting in concrete-floored cages.
Democrats hoped a Wisconsin case would be the vehicle the U.S. Supreme Court would use to strike down highly partisan gerrymandering of electoral maps. When those hopes fizzled Monday, attention turned to North Carolina.
In a sudden reversal, Gov. Charlie Baker's administration on Monday canceled its plan to send Massachusetts National Guard members and equipment to the southwestern U.S. border in light of the federal government's "inhumane" practice of separating undocumented children from their families, the governor's office said. Baker announced on June 1 that he would send a UH-72 Lakota helicopter and two military analysts to pilot the chopper to the southwestern border by the end of the month in support of President Donald Trump's mission to curb illegal border crossings and drug trafficking.
As President Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats on Monday, demanding again that Congress act to tighten federal immigration laws, more Republicans in the Congress began to distance themselves from a recent Trump Administration policy change, which has resulted in the separation of some 2,200 illegal immigrant families detained by border authorities. "As the son of a social worker, I know the human trauma that comes with children being separated from their parents," said Rep. Kevin Yoder , as he asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to "take immediate action to end the practice of separating children from families at the border."
Elizabeth Menes makes a point during a platform debate at the Republican Party of Texas convention in San Antonio on June 15, 2018. Elizabeth Menes makes a point during a platform debate at the Republican Party of Texas convention in San Antonio on June 15, 2018.
After a Blood Farm employee was seen allegedly hitting a pig destined for slaughter in the head, a federal Food Service Inspection Service inspector warned him the abuse was unacceptable. The USDA, however, as well as the family that has run the business for generations, felt otherwise.
House Republicans are at risk of losing several of their members in the midterm elections who are more moderate on the issue of immigration. Immigration has re-emerged as part of the national conversation in recent weeks as lawmakers in Congress attempted to address the fate of those immigrants affected by the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.