 | | | | (Reuters) - A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must reunite those families that had been split up in custody. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Democratic Party's insurgent left wing and Republican U.S. President Donald Trump each claimed big victories on Tuesday, as voters in seven states selected the parties' candidates for November's midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. | | | | | | WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its separation of migrant children and parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying President Donald Trump's order last week ending the breakups was illusory. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Police chiefs from across the United States, both Republicans and Democrats, on Wednesday urged the White House to find alternatives to detention of immigrant families given the risks it poses to children and its huge cost. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One argument the Trump administration made to the Supreme Court this spring to prove the legality of its travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries was that it had a robust waiver process that would allow people in on a case-by-case basis. | | | | | | AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas plans on Wednesday to execute a man dubbed the "ice pick killer" for the weapon he used to murder a woman in 1979, but his lawyers have launched a last-minute appeal to spare his life, arguing his veins are too compromised for a lethal injection. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Firefighters have made progress against a wildfire burning in Northern California that has threatened hundreds of buildings and forced hundreds of people to flee their homes, fire officials said. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Lynn Atkinson knew her cancer-ridden brother had six months to live, she asked the Connecticut prison where he was serving a sentence for robbery if he could come home early to die. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Small groups of protesters in cities across the United States are camping outside offices used by federal immigration agents, seeking to disrupt deportations in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tough stance on illegal immigration. | | | | | | (Reuters) - A man scaled a fence at Atlanta's airport on Tuesday, jumped onto the wing of a stationary airliner and pounded on the plane's windows before being arrested, police said. | | | | | |
