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On again, off again, on again are plans to transport illegal alien detainees from overcrowded and overwhelmed Rio Grande Valley detention centers. These centers have gained national attention for housing vast numbers of unattended Central American children, captured while crossing

After decades of debate and deliberations, bridge officials on Friday gave their blessing to a $76 million “safety net” which will act as a suicide barrier to prevent individuals from jumping to their deaths off of San Francisco’s Golden Gate

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — After more than a decade of helping fight Islamic militants, the United States is disbanding an anti-terror contingent of hundreds of elite American troops in the southern Philippines where armed groups such as Abu Sayyaf have

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts, ruling that extending such a buffer zone violates the First Amendment rights of protesters. According to the Associated Press, Chief Justice John

Ghana President John Dramani Mahama reportedly flew over $3 million in cash on a plane Wednesday to Ghana’s soccer squad to prevent a potential boycott of their game against Portugal on Thursday. Ghana’s players demanded the money to be delivered

The remains of 474 children who died in Irish hospitals and mother and baby homes were used for anatomical research over a period of 25 years, it was revealed yesterday. The Irish Independent reports that the remains of the “unclaimed

Michael Egan, the man who accused four major Hollywood players of sexually abusing him years earlier, has now dropped not one but two lawsuits tied to those charges. The suit against Garth Ancier, a veteran television executive with NBC, FOX

Santa Monica has joined cities like Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Long Beach in banning e-cigarettes from all locations regular cigarettes are not allowed–including clubs, bars, restaurants, etc. –, following a unanimous vote by the Santa Monica City Council on Wednesday

Illegal immigrants from Central America who are making the journey to the United States largely believe that they will be allowed to indefinitely remain in the United States once they surrender to Border Patrol agents because of changes in U.S.

The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District board of directors will vote Friday on whether to green-light $76 million for the construction of a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge. According to local Fox affiliate KTVU, approximately 24

FIFA is investigating German fans who showed up Ghana in blackface and a neo-Nazi sympathizer who ran onto the field during the Ghana-Germany game over the weekend. According to the Associated press, messages written on the man’s “chest and back

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A debris field at the bottom of Lake Michigan may be the remains of the long-lost Griffin, a vessel commanded by a 17th-century French explorer, said a shipwreck hunter who has sought the wreckage for

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government plans to turn an empty 55,000-square foot warehouse in South Texas into a processing facility for unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally, according to construction permits obtained by The Associated Press

The Associated Press reports that 3 Al Jazeera reporters were sentenced to 7 years in prison by an Egyptian court Monday for charges related to terrorism. The basis for the government’s charges was support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which has

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that non-Muslims cannot use the word “Allah” to refer to God, adding to a contentious debate that has reinforced complaints that religious minorities are treated

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court on Monday upheld a government ban forbidding non-Muslims from using “Allah” to refer to God, rejecting an appeal by the Roman Catholic Church that argued that the law failed to consider the

After the federal government canceled its plans to send 300 illegal immigrants from Central America to California on Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents said that as soon as the media’s glare fades, California will receive illegal immigrants from Texas who flooded

It will likely be years before the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors illegally coming to America face any action related to their immigration status, according to an Associated Press investigation. Since October, Border Patrol has apprehended more than 52,000

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts mayor is calling for an end to refugee resettlement in his city, saying Somali families are putting pressure on already strained services in Springfield, a onetime industrial center where nearly a third of the

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The South Korean army captured a soldier Monday who it says killed five comrades and then fled into the forest where he holed up with a rifle for two days before shooting himself as pursuers

Illegal immigrant children and families overflowing into Texas from Central America and being held in overcrowded detention centers will soon see 300 detainees flown out to the southern California cities of San Diego and El Centro according to an Associated

A Pennsylvania man led police on a wild chase early on June 21 after being pulled over. When things started off badly after the driver began threatening them, the police zapped him with a stun gun. But the man was

HOUSTON, Texas–Charities and attorneys in North Texas are strained as a result of the tidal wave of immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, hundreds of miles away at the U.S.-Mexico border. Catholic Charities in Fort Worth has organized aid and shelter

On June 18, Stephanie Klowlek–the inventer of Kevlar–died. Klowlek invented Kevlar in 1965 and it has been used in bullet-proof vests, helmets, tires, “airplanes and armored military vehicles,” and more.  According to the Associated Press, Klowek developed Kevlar when she

Amtrak has canceled an agreement with the California High-Speed Rail Authority to pursue contractors to build trains that could operate on both traditional and bullet-train systems, the Associated Press reports. In the latest blow to the high-speed rail project embraced by

MINYA, Egypt (AP) — The Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader and over 180 others were sentenced to death Saturday by an Egyptian court in the latest mass trial following last year’s overthrow of the country’s Islamist president. The ruling by the

As Wikileaks’ Julian Assange marks a second year living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London decrying the alleged suppression of free press in the Anglo West, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa plots even more potent initiatives to silence opposition media in

BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint in eastern Lebanon, while troops raided two hotels in the capital, arresting 17 suspected members of an al-Qaida breakaway group allegedly plotting terrorist attacks in the

Fans who watched Costa Rica defeat Italy in Recife, Brazil on Friday were also warned to be on the lookout for shark attacks.  According to the Associated Press, there have been “24 deadly attacks around Recife since 1992,” and officials

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is “totally out of control,” according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says the medical group is stretched to the limit in its capacity to respond. International

Starting in July visitors will be able to carry guns inside the Kansas statehouse. On June 19 legislators “refused… to use authority granted to them by Kansas law to block holders of concealed permits from entering the buildings with their

Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos is enjoying a victory lap after being reelected last week–an election that many interpret as a mandate to continue peace talks with the terrorist guerrilla, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The United States,

TUSCON, Arizona–Wednesday, June 18, marked the first day since over a thousand unaccompanied alien children (UACs) were shipped from south Texas to Nogales, Arizona ten days ago that reporters were allowed to see the inside of the Border Patrol holding