Author: Pauline Edwards

The Biden administration plans to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment. Opposing attorney Leecia Welch says the Justice Department has said it will ask a federal judge to terminate what is known as the Flores agreement at the U.S. Health and Human Services Department. The move could strain President Joe Biden’s already rocky relationship with immigration advocates as he confronts an unprecedented surge in border crossings, with arrests topping 2 million in each of the last two budget years.

The Senate on Thursday cleared a procedural hurdle as it moved closer to reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ahead of Friday’s midnight deadline.  Senators voted 84 to 13 to open debate on the five-year reauthorization, putting them within shouting distance of clearing the complex package.  “We hope to get this done today to keep the FAA funded…

The ad accused her of reducing healthcare funding to pay for electric cars.

A man from Lower Merion Township is going to jail after he admitted to using a knife to stab another man during an altercation at a township residence.

A man from Ohio has admitted to causing the deaths of over 40,000 fish by dumping toxic elements into the Scioto River.

U.S. immigration courts are moving toward more child-appropriate procedures, but funding could determine whether those procedures will effectively protect minors in immigration proceedings. A group of 18 senators led by Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) are calling on the upper chamber’s appropriators to dive into the weeds on Executive Office for…

Former President Trump blamed President Biden for the college graduations being canceled due to ongoing pro-Palestinian protests. He described the president as too weak to demand law and order. Trump wrote that President Biden is fully responsible for the cancellation of graduations at weak colleges like Columbia University, affecting thousands of students.

Barron Trump, former President Trump’s youngest son, was named a Florida delegate for this year’s Republican National Convention, marking the 18-year old’s debut into politics. Barron will serve as one of the 41 at-large GOP delegates to represent Florida at the July convention, where the party is expected to officially nominate his father as its…

By JESSICA DONATI (Associated Press) DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Boeing 737-300 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister, an airline safety group and footage from a passenger that showed the aircraft on fire. “Our plane just caught fire,” wrote […]

Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that his Bhumjaithai party had fulfilled its election pledge to decriminalise cannabis, but the party was double-crossed when its associated bill passed its first…