When U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a new policy recently to keep asylum-seekers in Mexico while they wait for their cases to be adjudicated, it was the latest in a string of Trump administration policies affecting asylum this past year. According to requirements laid out by the U.N. Convention on Refugees in 1951 […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap] Shippensburg borough teen in Pennsylvania is facing felony counts of arson and risking catastrophe and misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment after a prank he carried out early Monday morning 40 miles southwest of Harrisburg, police say. According to tenants in a two-story residence, they awoke to fire on their porch and evacuated the house and […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]n Oklahoma man opened fire at the drive-thru of a Taco Bell restaurant on Monday after the drive-thru attendant forgot to include taco sauce packets in his order, it was reported by the Oklahoma Police Department on New Year’s Eve. The man, as yet unidentified, went through the drive-thru portion of the popular Mexican-style chain restaurant at […]
[dropcap]U[/dropcap]krainian officials are warning that Russia may be about to escalate its conflict with Ukraine, including possibly launching a breakout offensive from Crimea. And they accuse Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine’s Donbas region of violating the latest cease-fire — dubbed a “New Year’s Truce”— by attacking Ukrainian positions with a heavy-caliber weapon banned under the Minsk peace […]