Vanessa Romo
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National
ICE Continues To Release Asylum-Seekers At Public Park In El Paso, Texas
Officials appear to have resumed coordinating with local shelters after days of dropping off hundreds of mostly Central American migrants without any plan.
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National
Man Who Sexually Assaulted Woman On Plane Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison
Prabhu Ramamoorthy cried after the sentencing in Detroit on Thursday. His lawyers had called for leniency from the judge arguing, "He will suffer long after this sentence is done."
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National
Man Is Freed After 2 Days Stuck In Empty Restaurant's Grease Vent
"He's a pretty slender guy and based on the viscosity of the walls" and the attempt to remove his clothes, "he probably thought he was going to slide ride down," officials said. That didn't happen.
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National
Customs And Border Protection Paid A Firm $13.6 Million To Hire Recruits. It Hired 2
A report by the Office of the Inspector General revealed Accenture, contracted to help hire 7,500 new agents, is "nowhere near" completing its goals and "risks wasting millions of taxpayer dollars."
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National
Charlottesville Jury Convicts 'Unite The Right' Protester Who Killed Woman
James Alex Fields rammed his car into counterprotestors in 2017, killing Heather Heyer and injuring several other people. He was convicted of first degree murder and other charges.
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World
Soyuz Rocket Launches, Docks Successfully To Relief Of NASA, Russia Space Agency
A Russian, an American and a Canadian were aboard the spacecraft when it lifted off from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazkahstan. It's the first launch since a failed mission in October.
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Environment
Flash Floods Hit Communities Devastated By Camp Fire
"The roots and the bottoms of the utility poles are just kind of swimming," Cal Fire spokesman Rick Carhart said on Thursday. Rescue teams worked to save motorists stranded on flooded roads.
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National
Starbucks Moves To Block Porn From Free Wi-Fi Networks
Patrons have always been banned in theory from viewing pornographic content over the company's Wi-Fi, but there was no technological filter in place. Starbucks will have one in 2019.
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National
New Jersey Couple's GoFundMe Campaign To Help Homeless Man 'Was Predicated On a Lie'
Katelyn McClure, Mark D'Amico and Johnny Bobbitt Jr. were charged with second degree theft by deception and conspiracy to commit theft by deception on Thursday. They could get 10 years in prison.
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National
Duck Boat Captain Indicted In Missouri Lake Accident That Killed 17
Kenneth McKee was charged with 17 federal counts of criminal negligence, misconduct and inattention to duty. U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison said, "Each represents a life that was lost."