On the last night of his life, Corey Walgren sat with his parents in the kitchen and talked about the colleges they would visit over spring break. At 16, Corey didn't know what he wanted to study - maybe business, maybe astronomy - but he liked the idea of attending a Big Ten school. He wanted a big, bustling campus with different kinds of people, a place that could match his energy and varied interests. His parents, Doug and Maureen Walgren, described it as an exciting but bittersweet discussion with their eldest child, a rite-of-passage conversation that occurs in kitchens all across the country. It ended with the family deciding to visit the University of Iowa and the University of Minnesota,
Passengers chanted “lock him up” as United Airlines had a man sporting a Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” campaign hat removed from a flight in Shanghai.
For years, the best-and virtually only-publicly released statistic tracking illegal immigration in the US has been the number of people caught at the southern border. Now, the US Department of Homeland Security is scrutinizing a lesser known type of undocumented immigrant: the one who comes in legally. In a new report released May 22, the agency has attempted to count the people who overstayed their visas in fiscal year 2016. The results tell a different story than the border apprehension numbers, and suggest that the US should broaden its singular focus on the border to include airports and seaports as well. By the end of fiscal year 2016, some 630,000 visitors had failed to leave the US, far
A Virginia woman’s xenophobic rant against a Latino man was caught on camera.
A waitress was fired after her employer found out she had reportedly spent the night with Orlando Bloom.
Joey Votto’s heckler did not win the battle. An All-Star player the caliber of Joey Votto shouldn’t expect to be heckled at his home ballpark. All bets are off, however, when his Cincinnati Reds are playing the nearby Cleveland Indians and fans of the Tribe make the trip down for the game.
The liberal commentator appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night, during which Colbert pressed her on the idea that the GOP might help remove a Republican president. The late night host talked about recent news that the president reportedly pushed for the FBI to end investigations into his presidential campaign's ties to Russia, the country that intelligence agencies determined interfered in the 2016 election in an effort to get Trump elected instead of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.