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At his murder trial, jurors see the notebook James Holmes kept before the July 2012 attack that killed 12 people and injured 70
In the wake of the Freddie Gray case, residents say they've been abandoned by police; and police say they're worried they'll be arrested for making a mistake
Living only one bill from disaster, almost half say they couldn't come up with $400 to cover an emergency expense
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A new study reveals how many people say they've ever heard voices or seen things that didn't exist
In a legacy of the housing bubble, urban dwellers are facing increasingly unaffordable rents
Obama's special envoy to the coalition fighting ISIS reflected on the fall of Ramadi
He allegedly tried to hide withdrawals to avoid bank reporting requirements and lied to FBI
In videotaped interview with psychiatrist, Holmes admitted he has "regrets" about deadly 2012 shooting at movie theater
Two U.S. lawmakers say Russia is using mobile crematoriums to hide its military involvement in eastern Ukraine.
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Nearly 10 months since the first U.S. airstrikes rained down on Islamic State (IS) targets in Iraq, the terror group has been subject to a persistent, if not relentless, assault on multiple fronts. Yet the campaign to degrade and ultimately destroy the self-declared caliphate appears to have done little to deter the militants from spreading terror throughout the Middle East and
The Russian Air Force is not experiencing a shortage of trained pilots and enrolment at military aviation schools is in full swing, Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev said on Thursday.
Since the Ukraine crisis erupted, Vladimir Putin has befuddled his foes with hybrid-war tactics, poisoned discourse with a sophisticated disinformation campaign, and alarmed the West with a series of provocative moves aimed at probing NATO's defenses.
NATO members boosted their activity in the Baltic region. Limiting the import into Russia of certain types of agricultural products has stimulated a growth in criminal activity on the border because of the illegal movement of goods.
Russia's Defense Ministry refuted the statement made by the NATO chief that Russia had allegedly used military drills in order to hide the shift of troops to Ukraine.
Russia's fifth-generation fighter jets known as PAK FA aircraft will enter service in 2016 and their serial supplies will start from 2017, Russian Air Force Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bondarev said on Thursday.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that classifies military losses during special operations in peacetime.
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter warned China Wednesday that attempts to expand its influence in the South China Sea will ultimately lead to isolation for the Pacific power
Russia's provocative rhetoric and its dramatic expansion of flights by nuclear bombers are deeply troubling and dangerous, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.
The Pentagon has assembled a group to look at potential changes to the train and equip mission in Iraq, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Thursday.
Defence ministers for the three Baltic states said Thursday they are mulling a joint air defense system in response to security concerns over Russia's activity in the region.
The Army's top officer on Thursday warned that looming budget cuts and uncertainty are hurting the force.
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China's most wanted fugitive is in US custody after being caught with a fake ...
Business Insider China's most wanted fugitive who's been MIA for over a decade is now in US custody after being caught with a fake Dutch passport, according to Bloomberg. Yang Xiuzhu, who fled China in 2003 after embezzling more than $40 million, reportedly escaped ... China Says Its Most-Wanted Fugitive Is in U.S. CustodyBloomberg China's Most Wanted Fugitive, Yang Xiuzhu, Who Embezzled $40M, Held In USInternational Business Times all 10 China Says Its Most-Wanted Fugitive Is in U.S. CustodyBloomberg all 7 news articles » |
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The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire
The Guardian But the apparently looming conflict between the US and China is not because of China's rise per se, but rather because the US insists on maintaining military and economic dominance amongChina's neighbors. Although Americans like to think of their ... and more » |
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The Great American Rethink on China
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Wall Street Journal NEW YORK—China's ambassador to the U.S. warned Washington against “anti-China” alliances and a “Cold War mentality” as Beijing continued to ramp up its objections to U.S. military activity in the South China Sea in advance of a weekend meeting of ... and more » |
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On May 29, bikers in Pheonix, Arizona, are holding a “Draw Muhammad” contest outside the mosque at the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, which is where the two gunmen who opened fire in Garland, Texas, allegedly attended.
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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, which he announced in a prime-time speech to the nation last November, may remain under a cloud of legal uncertainty until months before he leaves office in 2017, legal experts and administration officials said Wednesday.
Officials from the Justice Department said in a statement that they would not ask the Supreme Courtfor permission to carry out the president’s immigration programs — which seek to provide work permits and deportation protection to millions of undocumented immigrants — while a fight over presidential authority plays out in the lower courts.
That legal battle may extend for a year or more, officials said, undermining any hope of putting the president’s plan into effect until right before the 2016 election.
“The timing is critical,” said Stephen H. Legomsky, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis. “If the process drags on until the summer of 2016, then implementation becomes very difficult.”
The inability to quickly put into effect the president’s reforms is another severe blow to Hispanic activists, who had successfully lobbied Mr. Obama to take bold executive action in the face of Republican opposition to comprehensive changes in immigration law.
The president vowed to act days before Thanksgiving last year, urging undocumented immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and declaring that his actions were “not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half-century.”
But administration officials on Wednesday said the decision not to ask the Supreme Court to allow the program to move forward immediately reflects a practical reality: Even if the justices had given the green light to begin implementing the program, the continuing legal fight would probably have scared away most of the undocumented immigrants who could apply for it.
In a statement, officials from the Justice Department said they disagreed with a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that continues to block the president’s immigration actions. But they said the government will fight on the merits of the program, rather than push for permission to carry it out immediately.
Officials said they were committed to defending the president’s actions and to eventually getting the immigration programs in place with certainty.
“The department believes the best way to achieve this goal is to focus on the ongoing appeal on the merits of the preliminary injunction itself,” said Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the Justice Department.
The State of Texas last year filed a lawsuit against the president, accusing him of exceeding his authority and failing to follow the proper procedures for establishing new immigration rules. Twenty-five other states joined the lawsuit.
Administration officials had hoped to begin inviting millions of immigrants to sign up for the president’s new immigration program as early as this month. But that effort has been shelved since February, when a Texas judge ordered a halt, calling it an executive overreach and agreeing that officials had violated administrative procedures.
On Tuesday, the appeals court refused to overturn that order, saying that it believed Mr. Obama’s lawyers would ultimately lose in their efforts to defend the president’s actions.
Rather than continue to fight the judge’s initial order, administration officials said Wednesday that government lawyers would wait and make what they believe will be a stronger legal argument on the merits of the president’s immigration program.
Those oral arguments before the Fifth Circuit are scheduled to begin during the week of July 6, and administration officials expressed confidence that they would eventually prevail.
If the president were to win at the appeals court later this summer, legal experts said it was possible that Mr. Obama could order the program to begin later this year.
But administration officials said it was very likely that whoever lost at the appeals court would ask the Supreme Court to consider the full merits of the president’s actions. If the court agrees to hear the case, it would likely hear arguments during its term that begins in October and could issue a ruling the following June.
That would mean that the legal fate of the president’s immigration program would be decided just as the fall campaign for the 2016 presidential contest gets into full swing.
If Mr. Obama were to emerge victorious in the court in the summer of 2016, the timing would pose several problems for his immigration programs.
With only a few months to go before he leaves office, Mr. Obama’s administration would face the daunting task of quickly setting up a new bureaucracy that could process millions of applications from undocumented immigrants. Officials said they believe the administration could do that in a few months, if necessary.
But even as they would be seeking to get the program up and running, the issue could become a major part of the debate between the two presidential candidates.
By then, a Republican candidate might be vowing to repeal the president’s executive actions even as a Democratic candidate promises to keep them in place. Several Republican hopefuls have already made such a promise and Hillary Rodham Clinton has said she would expand Mr. Obama’s executive actions if she was elected president.
That political debate could make undocumented immigrants very nervous about revealing themselves before they knew who the next president was going to be.
“That might not be something they want to do,” Mr. Legomsky said.
Correction: May 28, 2015
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated the title of the judge who ordered a halt to president Obama’s new immigration program in February. It was a Federal District Court judge in Texas, not a Texas District Court judge.
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The Obama administration revealed today that it will not take the fight over executive immigration amnesty to the Supreme Court, essentially admitting defeat in its fight to lift a court-ordered stay placed by a Texas judge.
Obama’s executive actions still have to be settled in court, but yesterday’s decision prevented the administration from moving forward in its efforts to sign up illegal immigrants for the amnesty programs.
“The department believes the best way to achieve this goal is to focus on the ongoing appeal on the merits of the preliminary injunction itself,” said Patrick Rodenbush, a spokesman for the Justice Department to the New York Times. “Although the department continues to disagree with the Fifth Circuit’s refusal to stay the district court’s preliminary injunction, the department has determined that it will not seek a stay from the Supreme Court.”
The arguments for the legal battle begin next month before the Fifth Circuit court, but the results of yesterday’s decision mean the final will likely be pushed into 2016.
“There’s an important hearing scheduled for July 6 at which the Department of Justice is preparing its arguments on the legal merits of the executive actions that the president announced last fall,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz told reporters aboard Air Force One. “The Department of Justice remains focused on that argument and that hearing proceeding on an expedited basis.”
Obama is traveling to Miami today for a series of fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee.
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