Author: Rebecca Santana
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Illegal border crossings from Mexico plunge after a record-high December, with fewer from Venezuela
Authorities say arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico fell by half in January from record highs in December to the third lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency
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The GOP-controlled House fails to impeach the homeland security secretary. What could come next?
The House has failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border
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U.S. is allowing hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the country to work legally
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WASHINGTON • The Biden administration says it’s granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who are already in the country — quickly making them eligible to work — as it grapples with growing numbers of people fleeing the South American country and elsewhere to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border. The move —…
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‘Happening way too often’: Report delves into mass attacks
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WASHINGTON • As the nation reels from a week of high-profile shootings, a new report on mass attacks calls for communities to intervene early when they see warning signs of violence, encourages businesses to consider workplace violence prevention plans and highlights the connection between domestic violence, misogyny and mass attacks. The report released Wednesday by…
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U.S. asks court to end asylum limits, with a short delay
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EL PASO, Texas • The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to end asylum restrictions, but requested a delay until at least after Christmas. The administration made the plea in a filing Tuesday, a day after Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order to keep pandemic-era limits on migrants in place. Before Roberts…
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Calm before storms? Oddly quiet Atlantic despite forecasts
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NEW ORLEANS • It’s been quiet — too quiet — this Atlantic hurricane season, meteorologists and residents of storm-prone areas whisper almost as if not to tempt fate. A record-tying inactive August is drawing to a close and no storms have formed, even though it is peak hurricane season and all experts’ preseason forecasts warned…
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‘Still in shock.’ Abortion defenders, foes stunned by leak
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The owner of an Alabama clinic was flying home from a conference for abortion providers Monday night when a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion began ricocheting around the world. As Dalton Johnson read it, he was struck by the bluntness of the language that would end the constitutional right to an abortion, shuttering clinics in…
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Louisiana digging out after tornadoes
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ARABI, La. • Louisiana National Guardsmen and other responders went door-to-door in some areas around New Orleans on Wednesday as the region dug out from overnight tornadoes, with Gov. John Bel Edwards declaring a state of emergency and calling the destruction “devastating.” Other tornadoes spawned by the same system caused so much damage in Texas…
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Oldest U.S. veteran of WWII, Lawrence N. Brooks, dies at 112
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NEW ORLEANS • Lawrence N. Brooks, the oldest World War II veteran in the U.S. — and believed to be the oldest man in the country — died Wednesday at the age of 112. His death was announced by the National WWII Museum and confirmed by his daughter. Most African Americans serving in the segregated…
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Montgomery, at center of juvenile life debate, is free
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BATON ROUGE, La. • After spending nearly six decades behind bars, the Louisiana inmate whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity for parole when they were juveniles, was freed on parole Wednesday. Henry Montgomery, 75, was released from…