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A judge has halted CoreCivic, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered facility that the private prison operator now calls the Midwest Regional Reception Center, in Leavenworth, Kan., pictured Monday, March 3, 2025, unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)

ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds

June 16, 2025 at 8:27 a.m.

Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun...

FILE – With the Capitol in the background, Kali wears a trans equality flag in her hair while attending a rally for the Trans Day of Visibility on the National Mall, March 31, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

President Donald Trump is swiftly undoing transgender protections in HUD’s housing policies

May 5, 2025 at 8:16 a.m.

The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.

FILE – Supporters of Judge Hannah Dugan hold a rally in Milwaukee at the U.S. Courthouse in Milwaukee, April 25, 2025. (Lee Matz/Milwaukee Independent via AP, File)

Recent immigration arrests at courthouses around the US have advocates worried

May 1, 2025 at 11:48 a.m.

The flurry of immigration enforcement at courthouses around the country in the past month has renewed a legal battle from President Donald Trump’s first term.

Crime scene vehicle at the Woodward Avenue entrance to the Florida State University campus after a shooting, in Tallahassee, Fla., Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)

Questions emerge about how a deputy’s stepson became the accused gunman in deadly FSU shooting

April 19, 2025 at 6:50 p.m.

Amid the abandoned chemistry notes and other debris left behind after a deadly shooting at Florida State University are lingering questions about how the stepson of a beloved sheriff’s deputy...

Foster mom is charged with abuse as authorities investigate whether a girl was traded for a monkey

April 9, 2025 at 5:46 p.m.

A Missouri foster mother has been charged with child abuse and endangerment as authorities investigate whether she traded an adopted daughter to someone in Texas for a monkey and mistreated...

FILE – In this March 9, 2009 file photo, The Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Scholars stranded in America and abroad amid funding freeze of state department programs

March 9, 2025 at 2:12 p.m.

Scholars around the world who depend on State Department funding to participate in long-established programs like Fulbright say their payments have been abruptly cut off after getting a notice that...

FILE – Andrew Lester appears in court to answer charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action, April 19, 2023, in Liberty, Mo. (KMBC via AP, Pool, File)

The white man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Black teen who rang a wrong doorbell dies

February 19, 2025 at 4:05 p.m.

An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white...

FILE – Ralph Yarl looks at a badge that he received after walking at a brain injury awareness event, May 29, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. (KCTV via AP, File)

Man to plead guilty to 2023 shooting of Black teenager Ralph Yarl, people familiar with case tell AP

February 13, 2025 at 5:36 p.m.

An 86-year-old Kansas City man will plead guilty Friday to the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the man's doorbell by mistake.

A plume of smoke rises from the Palisades Fire on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)

With their Los Angeles-area homes still smoldering, families return to search the ruins for memories

January 11, 2025 at 11:18 a.m.

Calmer winds enabled firefighters to start gaining some control of the biggest blazes in metropolitan LA on Friday.

This Jan. 3, 2025 image provided by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office shows an escaped spider monkey near Otto, Mo. (Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Monkey in a tutu escapes from a home. Missouri sheriff’s office says the capture was ‘bananas’

January 6, 2025 at 3:43 p.m.

A monkey in a pink tutu that slipped out of a Missouri home was captured just before a winter storm slammed the state.

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