More than 500,000 Haitian refugees living under temporary residency in the U.S. can remain and continue working in the country, a federal judge ruled Monday evening. Why it matters: Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which provides short-term refuge to people fleeing crisis, was set to expire for Haitian immigrants Tuesday — despite ongoing violence and instability in the Caribbean island nation. - Haitians are among many immigrant groups whose protected status was not renewed or was eliminated this year as part of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. What we're watching: Representatives for the White House, Justice Department, State Department and Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to Axios'…
The story of Emmett Till may be 70 years old, but it still carries the reminder of what Black people endured in the Jim Crow South. "It's obviously a tough story, and a lot of us know it already, but some of us don't know all the details," Minnetrista Museum & Gardens CEO Brian Statz says. An exhibit in Muncie, Indiana, tells the story of how the 14-year-old was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by white supremacists and his mother's demand for the world to see what had been done to her child, whose death became a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. More: https://tinyurl.com/2p9vd3sf #EmmettTill #BlackHistoryMonth #MamieTillMobley
A judge will hold a hearing on Wednesday after attorneys for victims in the Epstein case said the recent batch of documents released by the government included their names.
The ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end a program that has allowed more than 330,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.
The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard arranged for agents who searched a Georgia election site last week to have a phone call with President Trump, sources say.
Dorner Carmichael reprised her American Red Cross volunteer role to give troops deployed to NATO-ally Poland a sense of normalcy while deployed far from home.
