TUAL, Indonesia — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday after a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island. After 17 hours overnight at sea, the men, mostly from Myanmar, filed off the boats and walked to the site of their new […]
WASHINGTON — Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there’s plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her family. While Parks and her husband, Raymond, were childless, her brother, the late Sylvester McCauley, had 13 […]
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(CNN) — Phillip Prince has been sitting in his tractor-trailer, stuck on Interstate 40 near Groom, Texas, for hours. Nine hours and four minutes, to be precise. Prince and his co-driver were due in California at 1 p.m. Tuesday, where they were going to drop off 25,000 pounds of frozen pizza. But then they came upon […]
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In a move to save money, the feds Monday released immigrant detainees from jails and detention centers across the U.S. As automatic federal budget cuts loom on March 1, “ICE has directed field offices to review the detained population to ensure it is in line with available funding,” said Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson Gillian […]
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