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Appeals court halts deportation of child with head injury

By NOMAAN MERCHANT | February 11, 2020

HOUSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in California temporarily halted the deportation of a 5-year-old child who injured his head before immigration agents arrested his family and whose advocates say needs to be seen by a neurologist.The 9th U.S. Circuit...

Australian court rules indigenous people can’t be deported

By ROD McGUIRK | February 11, 2020

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the government can’t deport Aboriginal people as part of its policy of ridding the country of foreign criminals.The High Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that indigenous Australians...

Ireland faces wrangling as Sinn Fein aims to form government

February 11, 2020

LONDON (AP) — Final results in Ireland’s general election show three parties in a virtual tie for seats, signalling weeks of tense negotiations ahead to form a coalition government.With all votes counted Tuesday, the center-right Fianna Fail party...

Justice Department brings new suits over sanctuary policies

By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG | February 11, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department ratcheted up legal pressure Monday on local governments over “sanctuary” policies that hinder federal immigration officers, bringing two new lawsuits and launching a coordinated messaging campaign to highlight...

Not all born in American Samoa want US citizenship

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER | February 10, 2020

HONOLULU (AP) — Growing up in American Samoa, Filipo Ilaoa’s neighbors were his cousins on a plot of land full of banana and breadfruit trees shared by his extended family and overseen by a chief elected by his relatives.He worries a federal judge's...

Ginsburg: Equal Rights Amendment backers should start over

By JESSICA GRESKO | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday that those like her who support an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution should start over in trying to get it passed rather than counting on breathing life into the failed...

Maryland unveils statues of Tubman, Douglass in Capitol

By BRIAN WITTE | February 10, 2020

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — At a time when states are debating the removal of Confederate monuments, Maryland unveiled bronze statues of famed abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass during a ceremony Monday night in the Maryland State House.The...

Judge stalls Uber, Postmates challenge to California job law

By DON THOMPSON | February 10, 2020

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to exempt ride-hailing company Uber and on-demand meal delivery service Postmates from a broad new California labor law while she considers their lawsuit.U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee in Los...

Trump seeks big increase in career-technical education money

By JEFF AMY | February 10, 2020

President Donald Trump is proposing a $900 million increase in education spending to teach skills and trades, in what would be a historic federal infusion into a spending area that's been stagnant for years.The announcement Monday follows Trump's State...

White supremacist pleads guilty in Las Vegas bomb plot case

By KEN RITTER | February 10, 2020

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A self-described white supremacist pleaded guilty Monday in Las Vegas to collecting materials and planning to bomb a synagogue or office of the Anti-Defamation League, or shoot people at a fast food restaurant or a bar catering to LGBTQ...

Mystery $844B pot in Trump budget signals Medicaid cuts

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s budget contains an $844 billion mystery pot for his still undefined health care plan, signaling steep cuts to Medicaid and “Obamacare.”That 10-year number represents hypothetical savings that would be...

Highlights of President Trump’s 2021 budget plan

February 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's fiscal 2021 budget plan doesn't have many fans — among either his GOP allies or opposition Democrats — but it's a measure of the president's priorities as he seeks a second term.News flash: It's short on...