Lawyers worry witnesses and victims may skip court out of fear of detainment.
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Officials spoke at the annual State of the County address.
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The $75 million program will build up to 5,000 housing units near large employers.
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Updated Dec. 6: The committee met to discuss out-of-state schools.
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Abortion, same-sex marriage, voting rights proposals head to full House vote in January.
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How the city is trying to turn its oldest trees into new resources.
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Some roads set to close as early as 5 p.m. Thursday.
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Demonstrators take to the streets in Kenya's capitol over the suspicious death of a popular blogger in police custody — a flashpoint of outrage in a country still reeling from last year's deadly crackdown on anti-tax protests.
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GOP lawmakers on Thursday blasted Democratic immigration policies as coddling violent criminals. Democrats portrayed Trump's escalating migrant sweeps as a dangerous assault on civil liberties.
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Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.
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"It just appears to me that the airplane is unable to climb," former NTSB investigator Jeff Guzzetti tells NPR. Several explanations could account for that, the aviation expert says.
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Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed and handcuffed at a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.
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