A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer is facing federal criminal charges over allegations he harbored an immigrant who officials say is in the country illegally and is also the officer’s girlfriend and niece. The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson was living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had
The Justice Department moved to drop federal charges against two men charged with assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis last month, including one Venezuelan defendant who was shot in the leg by an officer, citing “newly discovered evidence” that was “materially inconsistent” with the allegations against them. The filing, entered Thursday by U.S.
A federal judge blocked the Pentagon from downgrading the military retirement rank and pay of Sen. Mark Kelly over a video he and five other Democrats recorded last year that reminded service members they can refuse to follow illegal orders. Scott MacFarlane has more. Original CBS News Link
On a February evening in Iowa, the dining room table at the home of Spencer and Sinikka Waugh is buried under notebooks, campaign maps, yard signs — some with his name and some with hers. Married since 1998, the two are both running for office in Iowa — Spencer for the state House and Sinikka
Washington — A young Marine died after falling overboard from the USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean Sea, the Marine Corps announced Thursday, the first known U.S. death in “Operation Southern Spear.” Marine Lance Cpl. Chukwuemeka E. Oforah was 21. Oforah, an infantry rifleman from Florida, was declared dead on Feb. 10 after a 72-hour
Long before campaign season, the images or brands of the political parties are in the public mind. We asked people to weigh in right now on various descriptions of each of them. Their answers reveal a portrait of a very divided nation. One in which one party is seen more as “weak” while the other
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from downgrading the military retirement rank and pay of Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, finding that the government had “trampled on Senator Kelly’s First Amendment freedoms.” A retired Navy captain, Kelly drew the Trump administration’s ire after he and five other Democratic lawmakers posted a video