• Turkish Tufts University student back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center
    BOSTON (AP) — A Tufts University student from Turkey returned to Boston on Saturday, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she was held for over six weeks. Upon arrival at Logan Airport, Rumeysa Ozturk told reporters she was excited to get back to her studies during what has been […]
  • US-China tariff talks to continue Sunday
    GENEVA (AP) — Sensitive talks between U.S. and Chinese delegations over tariffs that threaten to upend the global economy ended after a day of prolonged negotiations and will resume Sunday, an official told The Associated Press.  There was no immediate indication whether progress was made Saturday during the meeting over 10 hours between Treasury Secretary […]
  • Newark mayor denies trespassing at immigration detention center following arrest
    Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on Saturday denied trespassing at a new federal immigration detention center during a confrontation that led to his arrest while the Democrat was at the facility with three members of Congress.  Baraka, who has been protesting the center’s opening this week, was released around 8 p.m. Friday after spending several hours in custody. He was […]
  • Mexican American singer Johnny Rodriguez, whose 1970s country hits topped charts, dies at 73
    SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Country music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s such as “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,” has died. He was 73. Rodriguez died Friday in San Antonio […]
  • Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?
    WASHINGTON (AP) — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally […]