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Eleven victims were killed after a longtime public utilities employee began shooting at a municipal building Friday afternoon, Police Chief Jim Cervera said. Officers shot back at the suspect, who is dead, police said.
The backlog of more than 800,000 immigration cases awaiting hearings, which has grown almost 50 percent under the Trump administration, is forecast to grow even larger.
The president says he may triple the number of forces that were deployed just this week. The defense secretary likens the deployment to when troops help after a natural disaster.
The court ruled the government must abide by a decades-old court settlement affecting the detention of migrant children.
The Trump administration has a policy of separating families at the border, which means children are detained at Border Patrol facilities for up to three days and then moved to shelters.
A federal judge in California has ruled that Facebook can be sued in a class-action lawsuit brought by users in Illinois who say the social network improperly used facial recognition technology on their uploaded photographs.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the question will help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act. Opponents say the question will discourage immigrants from being counted.
DACA would have ended Monday but courts have blocked Trump from phasing out the program that protects childhood arrivals. “It’s been quite a roller coaster ride of anxiety,” says one advocate.
The court ruled that immigrants, even those who are permanent legal residents and asylum seekers, have no right to periodic bond hearings, meaning they could be held indefinitely in some cases.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said a former student, Nikolas Cruz, 19, is in custody, suspected of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Cruz was arrested off campus without incident.
The move had been rumored following the publication of Fire and Fury, which included quotes that were embarrassing to President Trump.
LGBTQ activists say they hope lawmakers in other states will also ban the legal defense, which blames a victim’s sexual orientation for an attacker’s violent reaction.
“In light of its decision to consider the case on an expedited basis, we expect that the Court of Appeals will render its decision with appropriate dispatch,” the order says.
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says there is no excuse for the cover up of a 2016 data breach. A source tells NPR that the company paid hackers $100,000 to delete the data and keep the attack a secret.
The star of the highly regarded PBS talk show Charlie Rose and co-host of CBS This Morning issued a statement apologizing for his actions.
The oil leak occurs just a few days before Nebraska state regulators will decide on the fate of TransCanada’s controversial sister project, the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Travelers from six Muslim-majority nations may be temporarily barred entry into the United States if they don’t have a close “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in this country.”
The Astros defeated the Dodgers 5-1 in Game 7 at Dodger Stadium.