NEW YORK (AP) – A prayer bench used by the Rev. Mychal Judge, a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, was driven to the New York area on Sunday to join the collection of the Sept. 11 Memorial and … View original article
Homeland Security has issued new rules requiring every affirmative-asylum decision to undergo a supervisor’s review, in a move the department described as “quality assurance” but which one former staffer said was an attempt to browbeat officers into approving more cases. The memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services revokes a … View original article
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Federal authorities say that more than $1 million worth of cocaine has been hauled of a cargo ship that was anchored in the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that the seizure was made Wednesday during a … View original article
Hundreds of Border Patrol agents from the northern border and coastal areas are being reassigned to assist with a surge at the southern border. Agents from the Houlton sector are among more than 300 border agents who are being temporarily redeployed, according to the Customs and Border Protection. “CBP seeks … View original article
WASHINGTON (AP) — A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention center that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the prisoners moved to another facility on the American base in Cuba, the U.S. military said Sunday. The prisoners at Camp 7 were transferred to a facility adjacent to where the other detainees on …
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