Admitted Russian agent Butina to be sentenced in U.S., faces deportation
Admitted Russian agent Maria Butina will be sentenced on Friday by a federal judge after pleading guilty in December to conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence U.S. conservative activists and Republicans.
Over 1,000 migrants break out of southern Mexico detention center
More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country’s resources to the limit.
Fiery multi-vehicle crash in Colorado claims multiple lives
Multiple people were killed and many others injured in a fiery multi-vehicle crash west of Denver during the evening commute on Thursday when a tractor-trailer careened out of the control into several other vehicles, police said.
Fiery multi-vehicle crash in Colorado claims at least one life
At least one person was killed and several injured in a fiery multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 70 west of Denver during the evening commute on Thursday when a tractor-trailer careened out of the control into several other vehicles, police said.
U.S. judge blocks new Trump abortion rule for health clinics
A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked a Trump administration rule that would prohibit taxpayer-funded family planning clinics from referring patients to abortion providers.
Ex-Minnesota policeman says he shot Australian woman to protect partner
An ex-Minnesota policeman on trial for murder said on Thursday that he opened fire on an Australian woman who approached his car to protect his partner who was struggling to get his gun.
U.S. measles outbreak triggers quarantine at two Los Angeles universities
A nationwide measles outbreak has led health officials to quarantine dozens of people at two Los Angeles universities, officials said on Thursday.
Sex website shuts down in U.S., blaming ‘dumb’ trafficking laws
A popular sex classified website said this week that it was shutting down its services in the United States, citing the likelihood that legal challenges would fail to overturn a landmark package of federal sex trafficking laws passed by Congress a year…
Judge gives U.S. six months to identify separated migrant children
A U.S. judge said on Thursday he would order the Trump administration to comb through the records of 47,000 immigrant children and within six months identify those separated from their parents after crossing the Mexican border.
U.S. judge blocks Trump’s cutoff of family planning subsidies: plaintiffs
A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday blocked a Trump administration cutoff of U.S. subsidies for poor women obtaining birth control from Planned Parenthood and other clinics that offer abortion services or information to patients, according …
