Sunday, February 19, 2017

Sunday's Headlines: Homeland Security memos outline broad plans to bolster deportation efforts

Trump attempts to reset after rocky start, promising 'change for the ages'; 'That's how dictators get started': McCain blasts Trump for calling media 'the enemy'; 'California is a nation, not a state': This movement wants a break from the U.S.; In Mali, U.N. peacekeepers face their deadliest threat yet: Al-Qaeda;
 
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Homeland Security memos outline broad plans to bolster deportation efforts
Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly signed sweeping new guidelines for measures to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants. The documents detail plans to hire thousands of additional enforcement agents, speed up deportation hearings and expand the pool of immigrants prioritized for removal.
Trump attempts to reset after rocky start, promising 'change for the ages'
At a Florida rally that was perhaps the clearest sign of an attempt to regroup after a tumultuous first four weeks, he rattled off familiar campaign promises, scolded the media, mocked protesters, spoke of "a new day" and basked in applause.
 
'That's how dictators get started': McCain blasts Trump for calling media 'the enemy'
The GOP senator spoke out in defense of a free press in an NBC interview after the president lashed out several times at the media.
 
'California is a nation, not a state': This movement wants a break from the U.S.
Bolstered by the election of President Trump, the group Yes California is seeking the 585,407 signatures necessary to place a secessionist question on the 2018 ballot. Its goal is to have California become its own country, separate and apart from the United States.
 
In Mali, U.N. peacekeepers face their deadliest threat yet: Al-Qaeda
U.N. convoys sent to protect a tenuous peace deal are being torn apart by improvised explosive devices and their compounds blasted by 1,000-pound car bombs. The bloodshed has raised questions about how an institution developed in the 1940s can serve a world under threat from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.
 
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High court nominee Gorsuch is steadfast — and surprising
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Iraq resumes offensive to retake Mosul, prime minister says
Weeks after recapturing the eastern half of Mosul, Iraqi forces advanced in an attempt to drive the Islamic State from its last major redoubt in Iraq.
The cost of silence: Why more CEOs are speaking out in the Trump era
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HBO's 'Big Little Lies' transcends the usual rich-mommies drama
With a top-notch cast, the exquisitely conceived and structured "Big Little Lies" delivers a deeply absorbing, highly addictive murder mystery matched with a carefully considered psychological work-up of an elite community.
'Jane Roe' made abortion legal. Then a minister convinced her to repent.
When the antiabortion group of Flip Benham moved in next to an abortion clinic that employed Norma McCorvey — the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade — neither of them realized he would convert her to his cause eventually.
Amid boycott of Ivanka Trump-branded products, her perfume is a bestseller on Amazon
The sales jump appears to be driven in part by a backlash to a boycott of Trump-branded merchandise.
Trump's sons get the red-carpet treatment at Dubai golf club opening
Don Jr. and Eric were the guests of honor at the launch of the first Trump-branded golf resort in the Arab world, which is owned by one of their father's partners and close friends.
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Travel
Eating our way across Canada
Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn't a road trip. It's a family culinary tour.
Home & Garden
Six filters you don't want to forget
Neglecting to change them doesn't just damage your appliances — it could also harm your health.
 
     
 
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