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New militarized border zone spurs charges against hundreds of immigrants
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 8:21 amSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Several hundred immigrants have been charged with unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern U.S. border in New Mexico and western Texas since the Department of Justice introduced the new approach in late April. President Donald Trump's administration has transferred oversight of a strip of land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the military while authorizing U.S. troops to temporarily detain immigrants in the country illegally — though there's no record of troops exercising that authority as U.S. Customs and Border Protection conducts arrests. The designated national defense areas are overseen by U.S. Army commands out of Fort Bliss in the El Paso area in Texas and Fort Huachuca in Arizona. The novel national security charges against ... Read More
Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 7:58 amEL PASO (AP) - A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang. The ruling Tuesday from U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines in Pennsylvania appears to be the first time a federal judge has signed off on Trump's proclamation calling Tren de Aragua a foreign terrorist organization and invoking the 18th century wartime law to deport people labeled as being members of the gang. Also Tuesday, another federal judge in the western district of Texas temporarily barred the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport people in that region. At least three other federal judges have said Trump was improperly using the ... Read More
Georgetown University student released from immigration detention
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 8:22 amALVARADO (AP) — A Georgetown University scholar from India who was arrested in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students was released from immigration detention Wednesday after a federal judge's ruling. Badar Khan Suri will go home to his family in Virginia while he awaits the outcome of his petition against the Trump administration for wrongful arrest and detention in violation of the First Amendment and other constitutional rights. He is also facing deportation proceedings in an immigration court in Texas. “Justice delayed is justice denied,” Khan Suri told reporters after his release from a detention facility in Alvarado, near Dallas. “It took two months, but I’m extremely thankful that finally I’m free.” Immigration authorities have detained college students from across the country — ... Read More
An American basketball player arrested in Indonesia for alleged drug smuggling
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 8:14 amJAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An American basketball player for the Indonesian league was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle illegal drugs to the country, police said Thursday. The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad. Jarred Dwayne Shaw, 34, from Dallas, Texas, was arrested May 7, after police raided his apartment in Tangerang regency, just outside the capital, Jakarta, and seized 132 pieces of cannabis candies, said Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief. The arrest followed a tip from the airport’s customs that reported Shaw had received a suspicious airway package from Thailand, Sipayung said. Cannabis has been decriminalized in Thailand since November 2024. Under Indonesia’s anti-drug laws, Shaw faces up to life sentence ... Read More
A look at the status of US executions in 2025
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 7:58 amAUSTIN (AP) - Fifteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during the remainder of 2025. Glen Rogers is set to die by lethal injection in Florida on Thursday, followed by scheduled executions in Texas and Indiana on May 20 and Tennessee on May 22, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Other states with scheduled executions this year are Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, and Oklahoma, though Ohio’s governor has been routinely postponing the actions as their dates near. So far this year, executions have been carried out in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. The most recent U.S. execution took place May 1, ... Read More
The US has 1,001 measles cases and 11 states with active outbreaks
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 7:58 amWEST TEXAS (AP) - Texas confirmed eight more measles cases over the span of four days, continuing a short streak of shrinking increases in a state that has been dealing with a large outbreak for nearly four months. The U.S. surpassed 1,000 measles cases Friday, and Texas still accounts for the vast majority of cases in an outbreak that also spread measles to New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.Two unvaccinated elementary school-aged children died from measles-related illnesses in the epicenter in West Texas, and an adult in New Mexico who was not vaccinated died of a measles-related illness. Other states with active outbreaks — which the CDC defines as three or more related cases — include Indiana, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. North ... Read More
2 juveniles arrested for murder after allegedly shooting man, striking him with car in Texas
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 7:58 am(AUSTIN, TEXAS) -- Two juveniles were arrested and charged with capital murder after allegedly shooting a man and striking him with a vehicle during a carjacking, according to the Austin Police Department. The suspects, a 12-year-old male and a 13-year-old male, were arrested and charged with capital murder by terroristic threat, after allegedly killing 20-year-old Anthony Salas earlier this month, police confirmed to ABC News. At approximately 2:58 a.m. on May 3, the Travis County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call from a family "reporting their vehicle had been stolen from their driveway" in Del Valle, Texas, police said in a press release. Then at approximately 3:21 a.m. the same morning, the Austin Police Department received a call that reported a "person was hit by ... Read More
ICE reports over 500 people deported in the Houston area
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 7:58 amHOUSTON - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday said it has deported more than 500 people and arrested more than 400 suspected undocumented immigrants as part of a weeklong operation in the Houston area. “This initiative will save taxpayers millions of dollars each year by significantly reducing the time that aliens who have exhausted due process and been ordered removed from the U.S. need to be in ICE custody,” said Immigration and Customs Enforcement Houston Field Office Director Bret Bradford. The Department of Homeland Security didn’t list the type of crimes the people were convicted of or the type of immigration violations they are accused of. But it did highlight five cases of immigrants who were arrested, including two with homicide convictions and ... Read More
The fastest-growing city in the U.S. is in Texas
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 8:49 amPRINCETON — At the start of the decade, fewer than 18,000 people called Princeton, a mostly rural town about an hour northeast of Dallas, home. But as hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the Dallas-Fort Worth region in the years since, Princeton’s population more than doubled. Just over 37,000 people lived in Princeton as of July 1, 2024, estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show. Last year, it grew by 30 percent alone, making it the fastest-growing city or town in the country. Though Texas’ population growth has slowed, many parts of the state are still booming, and setting the pace for the rest of the U.S. Of the 15 fastest growing cities and towns in the country, seven are in Texas ... Read More
Dick’s Sporting Goods to buy struggling shoe chain
Posted/updated on: May 15, 2025 at 8:26 amNEW YORK (AP) - Dick’s Sporting Goods is buying the struggling footwear chain Foot Locker for about $2.4 billion, the second buyout of a major footwear company in as many weeks as business leaders struggle with uncertainty over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Dick’s said Thursday that it expects to run Foot Locker as a standalone unit and keep the Foot Locker brands, which include Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, WSS and Japanese sneaker brand atmos. “Sports and sports culture continue to be incredibly powerful, and with this acquisition, we’ll create a new global platform that serves those ever evolving needs through iconic concepts consumers know and love, enhanced store designs and omnichannel experiences, as well as a product mix that appeals to our different ... Read More
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