Month: November 2019

PHOENIX (AP) — Asylum-seekers who crossed the border in Arizona were bused to Texas Friday to be sent back to Mexico to wait for their hearings to wind through U.S. immigration courts, extending the practice across the entire border, a U.S. official said. U.S. authorities plan to run one bus a day from Tucson to…

An Ohio woman who called 911 pretending to “order a pizza” is being hailed this week for the brave actions she took in helping to save her mother from a brutal attack as it was being carried out by a man who now faces domestic violence charges. PEOPLE is not identifying any of the individuals…

When dispatcher Tim Teneyck answered the 911 call, he was confused by the caller’s request: a pizza order.  “This is the wrong number to call for a pizza,” he told the caller. But the caller insisted, and soon Teneyck realized what was going on: Someone needed help. The incident led to a domestic violence arrest, and authorities in…

Moscow (AFP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday bestowed the country’s top state honour on two pilots who safely landed a plane carrying more than 230 people in a corn field after a bird strike. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey At a ceremony in the Kremlin, Putin handed pilot Damir Yusupov and co-pilot Georgy…

Associated Press US President Donald Trump is consumed by the House impeachment investigation, neglecting policy areas in which he once took a close interest to follow proceedings and complain about them, Politico reported Friday. Trump is devoting large swaths of the day to “monitoring reactions to impeachment, as well as what his defenders are saying,…

Ratings show Americans are tuning in to the House’s public impeachment hearings, and polls show a clear majority of them find President Donald Trump’s actions wrong. Even so, Democrats face obstacles that could keep public support from reaching a tipping point toward impeachment and removal of the president. What’s more, these obstacles are completely independent from the increasingly corroborated substance…

By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Cuba’s government has launched a program to combat racism, acknowledging that a problem that Fidel Castro tried to eliminate after the 1959 leftist revolution remains unresolved. The program aims to identify steps to fight discrimination, broaden education on Cuba’s African legacy and start a…

The Northern District of Illinois The leader of a Chicago street gang has been arrested for allegedly trying to provide material support to the Islamic State.  Jason Brown, who also reportedly identified as “Abdul Ja’Me,” is the leader of the AHK gang in Chicago. According to a federal complaint filed in the Northern District of…

Otto Warmbier’s parents on ‘mission’ to hold North Korea responsible for son’s death, seize assets worldwide originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The parents of Otto Warmbier, the American student who died shortly after being released from North Korean detention, say they are on a “mission.” Speaking in South Korea’s capital on Friday, Cindy and Fred Warmbier…

The parents of former U.S. hostage Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 after being released from North Korea in a coma, have announced they will attempt to seize North Korean business assets around the world to punish the country’s government over its human-rights abuses. Otto Warmbier was convicted in a North Korean court after he…