• The Latest: Todd Blanche faces US Senate for DOJ confirmation hearing
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is set to confront questions about his brief but turbulent tenure atop the Justice Department during a Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday that will test President Donald Trump’s grip on Republican lawmakers whose support the nominee will need for the job. Blanche, according to prepared remarks released before […]
  • Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of people held at a sprawling Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten, according to a new report issued by legal and human rights advocates. The 84-page report issued jointly Wednesday by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil […]
  • Blanche says at Senate confirmation hearing that he is ‘restoring trust’ in the Justice Department
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says at his confirmation hearing Wednesday that he and his team are “restoring trust” in the Justice Department, moving to address complaints from Democrats that he has weaponized the law enforcement institution by pursuing criminal investigations into President Donald Trump’s perceived adversaries. Blanche is confronting questions about his […]
  • Heavy rains keep drenching South Texas, tornado reported in San Antonio
    UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Slow-moving storms with heavy rain were drenching a large swath of South Texas on Wednesday, spawning a tornado in San Antonio a day after downpours washed out roads and farmland and led to dozens of high-water rescues in the region. The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down in the […]
  • The Latest: Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops despite new policy to halt them
    President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcementshould continue traffic stops after two deadly shootings within a week, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them. To remove criminals from the country, “we CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” the president wrote on social […]