Oct 02 Trump lets states, cities refuse refugees for 1st time in U.S. By Julie Watson, David Sharp, Associated Press Last week’s move could further undermine a program that has seen an 80 percent drop in the number of refugees allowed in under Trump, who has pushed to limit both legal and illegal immigration. Continue reading
Oct 02 Dallas cop, Amber Guyger, gets 10 years for killing neighbor By Jake Bleiberg, Associated Press The jury sentenced Amber Guyger on Wednesday. Guyger was convicted of murder Tuesday in the September 2018 killing of her upstairs neighbor, Botham Jean. Continue reading
Oct 02 Whistleblower protection, explained By Candice Norwood At the heart of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is the whistleblower whose complaint ignited the probe. Continue reading
Oct 02 Placido Domingo resigns from Los Angeles Opera By Jocelyn Gecker, Associated Press The opera star resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera and withdrew from future performances at the company following multiple allegations of sexual harassment. Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch 2:55 Why seeing a role model who looks like you is so powerful "I’ve always thought that seeing is believing,” said Dr. Elizabeth Wayne, a biomedical engineer. In her career, that’s meant innovating new ways of showing people what happens in the body, but also, as a black woman in the sciences, the… Continue watching
Oct 02 U.S. claims reducing refugee numbers helps with the asylum backlog. Will it? By Gretchen Frazee For the 2020 fiscal year, the U.S. plans to cap the number of refugees admitted into the U.S. at 18,000-- the lowest admitted under the modern-day refugee system. Continue reading
Oct 02 WATCH: Sikh sheriff's deputy killed in traffic stop honored at Houston funeral By Associated Press Sandeep Dhaliwal was the first Sikh sheriff's deputy in the Houston area. Continue reading
Oct 02 White Dallas officer to be sentenced for murdering black neighbor By Jake Bleiberg, Associated Press Amber Guyger, who said she mistook Botham Jean's apartment for her own, which was directly below, was convicted of murder Tuesday. Continue reading
Oct 02 Australia says it's unlikely to give U.S. internal diplomatic communications By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press It was revealed this week that Trump had asked world leaders for help in Attorney General William Barr's investigation into how the Russia investigation began. Continue reading
Oct 02 WATCH: Pompeo confirms he was on Trump-Ukraine phone call By Matthew Lee, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not give information about the contents of the call, saying only that he was well-versed in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. Continue reading