The Obama-era program allowed nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants to live in U.S. without fear of deportation. The Department of Homeland Security said it would no longer accept new applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program that has provided renewable, two-year work permits for immigrants who have lived in the country illegally since they were children.
The president just asked a GOP-controlled institution that can't agree on the most basic of conservative policies — such as repealing Obamacare or passing a budget — to pass legislation that affirmatively protects undocumented immigrants. In other words, don't hold your breath, dreamers.
Florida authorities have begun bracing for Hurricane Irma, which the National Hurricane Center called "potentially catastrophic." Miami-Dade, the state's most populous county, could ask some of its 2.7 million residents to begin evacuating Wednesday. Farther south in Monroe County, home of the Florida Keys, officials issued a mandatory evacuation order beginning on Wednesday.
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The second-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean is expected to make landfall in Florida this weekend. The storm is life-threatening for the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, as well.
It will take an army of workers to reconstruct a vast swath of Southeast Texas, including the sprawling metropolis of Houston, that was devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Will undocumented migrants be allowed to join in?
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One in 10 rural U.S. counties lost a hospital maternity ward over a decade, leaving 2.4 million women of child-bearing age living in areas without hospitals that deliver babies.
In her new book, the former Democratic presidential nominee suggested the senator from Vermont didn't care about the Democratic Party — or that he was helping Donald Trump become president.
The Russian president lashed out at the United States over the seizure of a consulate in San Francisco and properties housing trade missions in New York and Washington.
The action was initiated after a nurse in Salt Lake City was manhandled and arrested by police as she protected the legal rights of an unconscious patient who could not give consent to have a blood sample taken.
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