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'Grassroots' movement of local residents keeps a watchful eye at Denver immigration court
Joanne Belknap bears witness.
She bears witness to the young families arriving at Denver immigration court in their Sunday best — baby girls in headbands, men in collared shirts. She notices the trembling hands accepting informational pamphlets she distributes outside the Byron Rogers Federal Building downtown. Among packed, wooden courthouse...Read more
This LA car wash depends on immigrant labor. Can it survive Trump?
The car wash hadn't yet opened for the day, but its owner was already on edge.
He scanned the street for law enforcement vehicles and hit refresh on a crowdsourced map that showed recent immigration sweeps.
"They were busy in our area yesterday," he warned his employees. "Be careful."
But except for staying home, there were few precautions ...Read more
Complaints about gaps in Medicare Advantage networks are common. Federal enforcement is rare
Along with the occasional aches and pains, growing older can bring surprise setbacks and serious diseases. Longtime relationships with doctors people trust often make even bad news more tolerable. Losing that support — especially during a health crisis — can be terrifying. That’s why little-known federal requirements are supposed to ...Read more
Waning immunity and falling vaccination rates fuel pertussis outbreaks
Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country.
The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too...Read more
A small Texas think tank cultivated COVID dissidents. Now they're running US health policy
Martin Kulldorff, chair of the Trump administration’s reconstituted CDC vaccine panel, made a shocking — and misleading — statement as the group met in September. Referring to a clinical trial, Kulldorff, a biostatistician and former professor at Harvard Medical School, said eight babies born to women who received Pfizer’s COVID vaccine ...Read more
Protesters to Trump: 'No National Guard in Seattle'
About 100 people gathered on the steps of Seattle's federal courthouse Sunday afternoon to Stand Up to Trump" and tell the president to keep the National Guard out of the city.
The president has yet to formally threaten to deploy troops to Seattle, but Ray Mitchell, spokesperson for Seattle Tacoma Opposing President Trump, or STOP Trump, said ...Read more
US terrorist designation targets Maduro's alleged drug network
President Donald Trump’s formal designation of Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization will go into effect on Nov. 24, escalating tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.
The U.S. government explicitly accuses the group, whose name translates to Cartel of the Suns, of being led by Venezuelan President Nicolás ...Read more
Japan reaffirms plan to deploy missiles to island near Taiwan
Japan’s defense minister, visiting a military base close to Taiwan, said plans to deploy missiles to the post would move forward as tensions smolder between Tokyo and Beijing over the East Asian island.
“The deployment can help lower the chance of an armed attack on our country,” Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on Sunday as he wrapped up ...Read more
Trump says TV networks shouldn't be able to 'enlarge'
President Donald Trump said no television networks should be able to expand, citing the potential growth of what he considers left-wing news networks.
“If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to ‘enlarge,’ I would not be happy. ABC & NBC, in particular, are a disaster - A VIRTUAL ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY,” Trump said in a ...Read more
US joint chiefs chair to visit base amid Venezuela tensions
General Dan Caine, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will meet service members of the U.S. Southern Command on Monday in Puerto Rico, where the American military presence has swelled as the Trump administration weighs military action against Venezuela.
The Pentagon said in a statement that Caine and David L. Isom, a Navy SEAL and ...Read more
Takaichi embraces Meloni At G-20, keeps distance from China
In a sea of dark-suited men and G-20 stalwarts, a bonding moment this weekend between two populist women stood out.
When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi locked eyes with her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for the first time on Saturday at the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, the enthusiasm on both sides was hard to miss.
Japanese...Read more
Record travel expected during Thanksgiving week, and most are going to drive
More Americans than ever are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday period, and the lion’s share of the nearly 82 million people making a getaway will be going by car.
AAA predicts that 73 million people will drive to their destination, and that number could rise if those who originally opted to fly switch to driving after the ...Read more
Anchorage rewrites wildfire protection plan for the first time since 2007
In the face of a changing climate, an updated planning tool will act as Anchorage's guide to preparing for and living with an increased wildfire risk.
Higher temperatures and longer, drier summers are becoming standard across much of the Lower 48 and in Alaska, said Stephanie Dufek of the Anchorage Fire Department. Over the last two decades, ...Read more
Alaska medical board cancels meetings as board seats remain unfilled
The Alaska State Medical Board canceled its meeting Friday for the second consecutive month because it lacked the quorum to operate.
The board is tasked with adopting regulations governing the practice of medicine in Alaska, and takes disciplinary action against physicians accused of medical malpractice.
But it has been hampered for months as ...Read more
Kristi Noem stops in Twin Cities to thank TSA for work during shutdown
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stopped at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport on Sunday to honor TSA employees who worked without pay during the nation’s longest federal shutdown — and to announce new technology investments and $10,000 bonuses for front-line staff.
MSP has roughly 600 TSA employees, though only a small ...Read more
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologizes to synagogue congregation for protest response
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologized to the congregation of Manhattan’s historic Park East Synagogue after a pro-Palestinian protest outside the house of worship turned into “turmoil” last week.
Tisch, speaking to the congregation during Saturday services, said the NYPD should have set up a “frozen zone” outside the entrance ...Read more
India and Canada restart talks, seeking to double trade
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to resume discussions on a bilateral free trade deal, the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries.
The talks were announced after Modi and Carney met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in South Africa. The leaders decided to “begin ...Read more
A decade after Paris, climate diplomacy is about saving itself
Two weeks of frenzied negotiations over the planet’s faltering fight against climate change had come down to this: a pre-dawn battle over shifting away from fossil fuels.
The European Union, the U.K. and other nations had drawn a red line on the second-to-last day of COP30 in Brazil, insisting they would walk away rather than accept a deal ...Read more
Rubio sees leeway on Ukraine deadline after 'productive' talks
President Donald Trump’s proposed Nov. 27 deadline to secure Ukraine’s support for a U.S.-backed peace plan isn’t set in stone and could drift into the following week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, suggesting that plenty of work remains.
Rubio’s note of caution followed U.S.-Ukrainian talks Sunday in Geneva that both sides ...Read more
U.S. senators from Connecticut leading legislation to revamp background checks on gun sales nationwide
Democratic U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal are leading a bill to expand federal background checks to all gun sales made in the United States, officials said.
The legislation, called the Background Check Expansion Act, is being reintroduced by a bipartisan group of 45 senators including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-...Read more
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