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Immigrant detainee dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego

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An immigrant detainee died Saturday morning at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, marking the 61st such death under the Trump administration.

In an emailed statement, an unnamed spokesperson with CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company that operates the facility, confirmed the death. Per the spokesperson, a staff member ...Read more

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DOJ to send election monitors to Maryland's Prince George's County on Election Day

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BALTIMORE — The U.S. Department of Justice will again send election monitors to Prince George’s County on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting requirements for providing election materials and language assistance in languages other than English, Maryland’s State Board of Elections said Tuesday.

The federal Voting Rights ...Read more

Hialeah cops have a Corvette. What is it doing in the city's new traffic unit?

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MIAMI — Hialeah police are putting a Chevrolet Corvette seized during a criminal investigation to a new use: promoting traffic safety at community events, rather than chasing down speeding motorists.

The sports car is part of the city’s new initiative to crack down on aggressive driving initiative, made up of a police unit of one sergeant ...Read more

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Bolsonaro flees Brazil after losing election, newspaper says

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BRASILIA, Brazil — Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil hours after losing the presidential election and being ordered to surrender his passports, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported, citing allies of the conservative senator.

Brazil’s Federal Police canceled Bolsonaro’s passports after he failed to surrender them within a 24-hour deadline ...Read more

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ICE released detainees from at least 29 states in California, far from their homes, group says

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FRESNO, Calif. — ICE has been releasing people detained outside of California at processing centers in downtown Fresno and Bakersfield, leaving some of them stranded hundreds of miles from home without money or their belongings, elected officials and immigrant rights advocates say.

The detainees — some from as far away as the East Coast �...Read more

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Justice Department plans to send election monitors to polling stations in Philadelphia

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PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Justice Department plans to send monitors to polling stations in Philadelphia and three other Pennsylvania counties for Election Day, according to a letter obtained by The Inquirer.

The Oct. 22 letter addressed to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt says the Justice Department intends to send monitors to ...Read more

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Technical colleges bet on AI-driven demand for skilled workers

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Technical colleges are betting a surge in demand for skilled workers will lift profits, though the payoff may take time as they expand campuses and programs to accommodate more students.

Employers racing to build data centers, expand manufacturing and automate factories are fueling demand for trained workers, lifting enrollment at schools ...Read more

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Parents of Alex Pretti claim Justice Department is shielding agents who killed their son

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MINNEAPOLIS — The parents of Alex Pretti are done being silent.

At a press conference Tuesday in downtown Minneapolis, they painted a picture of the stark difference they see between the caring, loving son they raised and the callous, disrespectful actions of the United States government after federal agents shot him dead on a south ...Read more

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Archdiocese restricts ministry of Kansas priest once charged with abusing minor

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Responding to a directive from the Vatican, the leader of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has placed restrictions on the ministry of a priest once charged with sexually abusing a minor.

Archbishop Shawn McKnight ordered that the Rev. Scott Kallal “is prohibited from conduct with minors that could be reasonably understood as grooming...Read more

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Lawsuit photos show California police officer smiling over a handcuffed woman, 66, who later died

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On the morning of Nov. 17, 2024, Nyota Koya, a 66-year-old Black woman from Roseville, lost consciousness during an encounter with a Sacramento police officer named Matthew Sterling. She died a week later without ever regaining consciousness.

Nearly two years later, the Sacramento Police Department still has not told her ...Read more

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FBI raids billionaire's Beverly Hills mansion in connection with Eric Swalwell probe, sources say

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LOS ANGELES — The FBI Tuesday morning raided a mansion in Beverly Hills in connection with an investigation into former Congressman Eric Swalwell, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

Swalwell, a Democrat from the Bay Area city of Dublin, dropped out of the California governor’s race and resigned from Congress in April after allegations that...Read more

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Meghan Markle's relationship with her embattled dad is being revisited

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Meghan Markle’s relationship with her embattled father is being reconsidered in light of allegations that Thomas Markle indulged in the exploitation of minors.

The 45-year-old Duchess of Sussex’s 2018 wedding to Prince Harry captured the public imagination for several reasons, including the fact that the bride’s father wasn’t there.

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Judge blocks DC golf course plan, but Trump vows to continue renovation

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A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to transform a historic Washington, D.C. public golf course, but he insists the massive renovation will go ahead regardless.

District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction that bars the government from removing or damaging any additional trees on the East Potomac...Read more

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Another State Police trooper arrested on drunken driving charge

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BOSTON — It was instant karma for State Trooper John J. Lennon Jr. when a fellow Statie renowned for his honesty responded to the scene of his alleged drunken driving crash earlier this month.

Lennon, 35, of Marshfield, ran his car off Rte. 3 in Hingham after a golf outing and required a tow to get out, according to a police report. That was ...Read more

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Kentucky custody judge texted, ate and rolled her eyes in court, commission says

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A Louisville, Kentucky, judge has been suspended without pay after the state’s Judicial Conduct Commission found she had committed a long list of misconduct and other violations.

Laura Adams Ogden was suspended from the Jefferson County Family Court bench in an order issued Monday in which the JCC said she was guilty of bias, due process ...Read more

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Body of missing climber found, buried in snow, on Mt. Whitney, California

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LOS ANGELES — The body of a missing climber was found, covered in snow, on Mt. Whitney's Mountaineer's Route after a storm delayed recovery efforts, according to authorities.

The Inyo County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday it received a report from an employee at a Lone Pine motel shortly before 10 p.m. Oct. 19 of a guest who ...Read more

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LA homicides are down to near-historic lows -- but killings of Black men persist

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LOS ANGELES — Homicides in Los Angeles still are falling, plunging to levels not seen since the 1960s and continuing a dramatic turnaround from the pandemic crime surge.

But no matter how low the numbers go, an old pattern persists: Black Angelenos are far more likely to be killed than those of other races.

So far this year, 35% of the city'...Read more

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Deaf workers lose thousands in power tools to thieves, have group hug, vow to 'keep going'

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LOS ANGELES — A Granada Hills homeowner is hoping to help a small crew of deaf construction workers replace thousands of dollars' worth of power tools that were stolen while they were making repairs to her house.

Jan Menapace had hired Neverless Construction to patch a leak and repair water damage in her kitchen during last week's storms in ...Read more

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Iran's Khamenei reiterates conditions for ending war with US

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Iran’s Supreme Leader reiterated his country’s conditions for ending the war with the U.S., amid a regional diplomatic push to avert a fresh round of fighting in the Persian Gulf.

Mojtaba Khamenei emphasized the need to implement “the conditions set out by the country’s officials, with the aim of ending the war and the ‘neither war ...Read more

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New Miami-area group breaks organ recovery record. How it plans to change transplantation

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MIAMI — The new group tasked with retrieving organs for transplantation across South Florida and the Bahamas is already breaking records, just months after taking over operations from a decades-old nonprofit that was ordered shut by the federal government over safety-related issues and other concerns.

The South Florida Donor Network ...Read more