President Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday stepping up immigration enforcement efforts and calling for “the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border.” Trump touted the actions in a speech at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday afternoon. In his speech, Trump argued that the U.S. is “in the middle of a crisis on our southern border” owing to “the unprecedented surge of illegal migrants from Central America” and drug cartel activity.
A Texas lawmaker who wants to criminalize abortion says he believes women ought to be “more personally responsible” for their sexual behavior. “Right now, it’s real easy,” Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, told the Texas Observer this week. “Right now, they don’t make it important to be personally responsible because they know that they have a backup of, ‘Oh, I can just go get an abortion.’ Now, we both know that consenting adults don’t always think smartly sometimes.
More than 100 puppies have been rescued by state troopers after a truck carrying them crashed in upstate New York, authorities said. The precious cargo was rounded up on Interstate 86 in the Finger Lakes region. The driver of the box van, who was speeding, lost control of her vehicle and flipped on the slick highway, authorities said.
A US judge has ordered that Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appear by video link at his next court hearing to avoid unnecessary transfers for one of the world's most notorious criminals. The 59-year-old Guzman, accused of running one of the world's biggest ever drug empires, was extradited to the United States on January 19 after twice escaping from prison in Mexico. US media say he is being incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, a two-mile (three-kilometer) drive from the federal court house across the river in Brooklyn.
Gun rights activists aided by the National Rifle Association are suing Massachusetts over its firearms laws, saying the state's assault weapons ban is preventing law-abiding residents from buying and possessing some of the most popular rifles in the country, as well as most standard-capacity magazines. The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court by the Gun Owners' Action League of Massachusetts and other groups, specifically targets the state's 1998 assault weapons ban, which mirrors a federal ban that expired in 2004. Massachusetts has some of the strictest guns laws in the country.
Health care access, though, while still rudimentary, has been a bright spot in the community during the past several years, as access to free family planning services has increased. Nongovernmental family planning organizations such as Marie Stopes International (MSI) have been able to offer reproductive health care to people in places like Kimombasa and other at-risk communities in the developing world. By regularly setting up makeshift clinics under blue plastic tarps, and even sometimes using three-wheeled vehicles known as tuk-tuks to reach places inaccessible by roads, MSI health care workers provide free gynecological screenings, HIV and STI testing, maternal health care, vasectomy procedures for men, contraception and abortions to some of the world’s most vulnerable people.
Amid what would seemingly be considered a puff piece by the New York Times about how Trump is enjoying the White House, a side note has alarmed tech researchers, security experts, and national security employees alike: Trump still owns, and regularly uses, an unsecured Android phone. While the President is still a private citizen, and can legally use any phone he wishes, an unsecured Android is an enormous security risk, and likely a disaster waiting to happen. Security experts have been taking Google and Android device manufacturers in general to task for years over security problems.
Greenpeace USA activists scaled a construction crane to unfurl a giant banner reading "Resist" several blocks from the White House Wednesday morning.Branding acts of protest and dissent as part of a larger "resistance" has become increasingly common in
The clip shows a Smart car driver weaving in and out of cars — at one point nearly going up on the pavement — in an attempt to get ahead of a queue of traffic. Definitely not one we'd recommend trying at home.
The Twitter account for Badlands National Park posted and then deleted a series of messages relaying climate change facts Tuesday, the same day that the Trump administration issued a media blackout for the Environmental Protection Agency. The tweets, screenshots of which are embedded below, drew attention across the social network Tuesday afternoon after President Trump signed executive orders to continue the process of building the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines. Trump also told automaker executives Tuesday morning that he planned on rolling back “unnecessary” regulations.
Bana Alabed, the 7-year-old girl whose tweets about life in Aleppo touched hearts around the world, penned an open letter to President Trump beseeching him to do something to help children still suffering in Syria. “I know you will be the President of America so can you please save the children and people of Syria? You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children and deserve peace like you,” she wrote.
The carrier announced new Boeing 737's will not come with seatback screens since the majority of passengers carry their own devices for entertainment. Bring their own devices to view movies and TV shows in flight so the airline's new 730 sevens will not come with seat back screens.
The number of bodies recovered from the ruins of an Italian hotel buried by an avalanche rose to 24 on Wednesday, local authorities said. The deadly avalanche followed the heaviest snowfall seen in the mountains of central Italy in decades and may have been triggered by a series of powerful earthquakes which rocked the region earlier the same day.
A Virginia mother and her two young children, who disappeared after her blind date Saturday, have been found safe, Virginia Beach Police said. Police issued a missing and endangered alert for the mother, Monica Bogart Lamping, 29, and her children earlier this week after family members said she had stopped responding to their text messages and calls. At about 11:54 a.m. Wednesday, police said Lamping and her two children — Kai, 7, and Oria, 9 months, were found safe “in an adjoining state," police wrote in an update on the department's website earlier today.
California authorities say they have captured the second of two inmates who walked away from a minimum security facility in Northern California. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says 27-year-old Brian Schueren of Orange County was taken into custody without incident Wednesday near the Alder Conservation Camp.
A search is underway for a red panda that vanished from the Virginia Zoo Monday, according to reports. “Red pandas are reddish-brown in color, with thick fur and a long tail, and similar in size to a raccoon. Sunny came to the Virginia Zoo in May 2016 from Front Royal, the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute.
When we first saw the 2018 Ford Mustang last week, Ford was being coy about exact specifications. Both the GT and the EcoBoost will get horsepower and torque increases Ford said, though the automaker didn't reveal big those increase will be. Autoguide first noticed a tweet from a Ford communications rep, pointing out easter eggs in an image of the 2018 Mustang's new digital gauge cluster.
The Australian Reptile Park has issued out a country-wide call out for "responsible adults" to embrace their fears and capture deadly funnel-web spiders, in an effort to solve a serious anti-venom shortage. Funnel-web venom is a key ingredient in the antidote used to treat bites from the spider, and last year venom supplies began to run dangerously low.
By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) - The United States will send extra military aircraft to Australia's tropical north this year, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman said on Wednesday, bolstering its military presence close to the disputed South China Sea. The Marines' deployment in the strategic city of Darwin, agreed in 2011, was a critical part of former U.S. President Barack Obama's "pivot" to Asia amid China's increased assertiveness in the region.
Greenpeace USA activists scaled a construction crane to unfurl a giant banner reading “Resist” several blocks from the White House Wednesday morning. Branding acts of protest and dissent as part of a larger “resistance” has become increasingly common in the months since Donald Trump was elected president. The 70-by-35-foot banner, 300 feet in the air, appears to dangle above the White House when viewed from the Ellipse of the South Lawn.
The president discusses his threat to send "the feds" to Chicago, "black site" prisons, and his stance on torture. Reporter: Mr. Trump let's talk about many things that have happened this week, Chicago, last night you tweeted about the murder rate in Chicago saying "If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going on, I will send in the feds." You will send in the fends. This is Afghanistan, is not like what's happening in Chicago. Maybe there's something going on, but you can't have those killings going on in Chicago, Chicago is like a war zone, Chicago is worse than some of the people that you report in some of the places that you report about every night, in the Middle East.
A Palestinian uses a sling shot against Israeli troops during clashes following a protest at checkpoint 300 in the West Bank city of Bethlehem; People walk on a street decorated with Chinese lamps to celebrate the Lunar New Year in Bangkok, Thailand;
"We buried them under the orange trees," said Abdulrahman, 18. Iraqi forces have in recent days completed their reconquest of eastern Mosul, a key step in the battle to retake the country's second city from the Islamic State group. Many of those killed in the fighting had to be hastily buried in improvised plots -- like Abdulrahman's family -- and now many residents are looking to hold proper reburials.
Sentencing was postponed Tuesday for an American-born Muslim convert convicted of supporting the Islamic State group and helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem appeared for an hour-long sentencing hearing in a federal court in Phoenix, but U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton delayed imposing his punishment and instead ordered attorneys to hand in legal briefs in preparation for a new sentencing hearing on Feb. 8. Kareem provided the guns that two friends used to open fire outside the anti-Islam event in suburban Dallas and hosted the two Islamic State followers at his home to discuss the upcoming attack, authorities have said.
As this Illinois couple welcomed their twins into the world in April, they were flabbergasted to find their new babies looked remarkably different — and were even of different races. Kalani has light skin and blue eyes and her twin sister, Jarani, has brown skin and brown eyes. The babies were born in April to Whitney and her boyfriend, Thomas Dean.