A federal appeals court decision has rejected a policy of mandatory detention for immigrants. This policy, part of a mass deportation effort, has been ruled illegal by several courts. A split in opinions among appeals courts has been created, with some upholding the policy and others rejecting it.
The decision cites a troubling period in history as a comparison to the current policy. Further details about the court's ruling and its implications are available.
The ruling has resulted in differing treatment of immigrants in various parts of the country, with some facing additional challenges to seek bond hearings, including those in certain states.
Abraham “AB” Quintanilla III, the brother of the late Tejano music icon Selena Quintanilla Perez, has filed a lawsuit against his sister Suzette Quintanilla Arriaga and two corporate entities. The lawsuit accuses the two entities — Q Production, Inc. and Q Productions, Inc. — of ...
You can actually see Texas turning brown from orbit. So how dramatic was the shift, and what are you looking at in these images? Meteorologist Sarah Spivey explains: WHAT THE SATELLITE SHOWS NASA satellite images captured the transformation Texas went through between the end of J...
Lindsay Clancy shouldn’t be tried a second time for killing her three young children because prosecutors don’t have enough evidence, her lawyer told a judge Thursday, saying the court should decide she’s not guilty by reason of insanity. Eleven of 12 jurors were ready to clear Cl...
A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the emergency appeal Wednesday, widening a legal ...
Seat belts and a flight attendant call button from the doomed United Airlines Flight 93. A purse filled with keys and a wallet recovered from the World Trade Center site. The telephone that sat on U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson's desk when his wife, Barbara, called from a hijac...
Brenda Rae was driving with her husband and children from their home in Minneapolis to visit her father in Appleton, Wisconsin, last Thursday night when her phone rang with an intriguing offer: Could she travel ASAP and take over the lead soprano role in Mozart’s “Mitridate” at O...
More than a dozen former hockey players are suing the University of Michigan, alleging their coach and other staff were aware of sexual hazing that included the forced shaving of their genitals and other abuse by teammates decades ago. "The abuse was ritualized, meticulously plan...
“Never forget.” Those words are what many people across the United States pledged to after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. People have continued the tradition of honoring nearly 3,000 victims who died and people whose lives were forever changed by 9/11 with memorials, services and ev...
