Media caption‘I thought we would be treated differently in US’ Up to 2,700 children in Central America will be allowed to reunite with their parents living under protected status in the US, a court has ruled. It follows a lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s cancellation of a programme that gave the children the right […]
Image copyright Getty Images US President Donald Trump’s tax returns must be given to House Democrats by 23 April, a committee chair has said. The administration has already failed to comply with a 10 April deadline. In a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), House Ways and Means chairman Richard Neal said failure to […]
Media captionIf successful the jet would be a cheaper way to launch objects into space than using rockets The world’s largest aeroplane by wingspan has taken flight for the first time. Built by Stratolaunch, the company set up by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, the aircraft is designed to act as a […]
Image copyright US Consumer Product Safety Commission Toymaker Fisher-Price has recalled nearly five million of its Rock ‘n Play Sleepers after reports linked the product to dozens of baby deaths. The recall was announced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Friday. On its website, the commission said at least 30 infants had […]
Image copyright KCNA via Reuters Image caption Mr Kim made the comments at the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly in Pyongyang North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he would take part in a third summit with Donald Trump – but only if the US brought the “right attitude”. North Korean state media reported the comments […]
Media captionTrump: ‘We’ll send illegals to sanctuary cities’ President Donald Trump has acknowledged planning to free immigration detainees in Democratic urban strongholds as a political retaliation ploy. The Republican president tweeted that his antagonists should be “very happy” about the idea given their “open borders, open arms policy”. He said he was targeting so-called sanctuary […]
Media captionTrump: ‘We’ll send illegals to sanctuary cities’ President Donald Trump has acknowledged planning to free immigration detainees in Democratic urban strongholds as a political retaliation ploy. The Republican president tweeted that his antagonists should be “very happy” about the idea given their “open borders, open arms policy”. He said he was targeting so-called sanctuary […]
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Georgetown is an elite American university Georgetown University students in Washington DC have voted in favour of a reparations fund to repay descendents of slaves sold by the school in 1838. A “Reconciliation Contribution” fee of $27.20 (£21) each semester would benefit descendents of the 272 slaves. Undergraduate students […]
Media captionExhuming the bodies buried at the Dozier school in 2014 Excavators have found up to another 27 suspected graves near the grounds of a notorious reform school in Florida. Workers hired to clear up a fuel storage site detected new “anomalies” buried near the state-run Dozier School for Boys, officials said. The school became […]
Image copyright Facebook/Holden Matthews Image caption Holden Matthews was reportedly turned over to state officials by his own father, a police deputy The son of a police deputy has been arrested as the suspect in three fires at black churches in southern Louisiana, officials say. Holden Matthews, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with […]
