Trump's Promised Immigration Crackdown in Chicago Could Last About Six Weeks, Suburban Official Says
CHICAGO — The Trump administration has informed local officials that its promised immigration enforcement surge in Chicago will operate seven days a week for about six weeks, according to the mayor of a suburb that houses an immigration processing center. Mayor Katrina Thompson said in a letter to the village’s roughly 8,000 residents this week […]
Trump Begins Firings of FAA Air Traffic Control Staff Just Weeks After Fatal DC Plane Crash
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Probationary workers were targeted in late night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president […]
Maine Shooter Punched Fellow Army Reservist in Face Weeks Before Killings
CONCORD, N.H. — The commission probing Maine’s deadliest mass shooting concluded law enforcement had ample grounds to pursue assault charges against Robert Card for punching a fellow Army reservist in the face six weeks before he killed 18 people in Lewiston. While legal experts and the man he punched concur on that, they say even […]
Maine Police Were Alerted Weeks Ago About Shooter’s Threats
Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the U.S. Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state’s history, one of a string of missed red flags that preceded the massacre. Two local law enforcement chiefs told The Associated Press that a statewide […]