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Body of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is to lie in state in South Carolina

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be honored at the South Carolina capitol in the state where he was born and where his crusade career as a civil rights activist started in high school by pushing to integrate his local library.

Calls for Texas Rep. Gonzales to resign grow louder from fellow House Republicans

Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado on Monday became the first of several House Republicans to call on Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign after allegations surfaced that he had an affair with a staffer who later committed suicide.

Chicagoans name snowplow ‘Abolish ICE’ in annual contest

When it comes to putting a name to Chicago's annual battle against its infamously inclement weather, it turns out that the practical is also the political.

‘Flawed response’: Top House Republicans, Pentagon challenge airline safety bill

Top House lawmakers and the Defense Department spoke out in opposition Monday to aviation safety legislation that Speaker Mike Johnson hopes to rush to passage on Tuesday, arguing it needs retooling and is too narrow.

ICE whistleblower testifies about ‘secretive orders,’ curtailed officer training program

Ryan Schwank, a whistleblower who recently resigned from ICE, told congressional Democratic oversight leaders Monday that he was given "secretive orders" to teach new officers to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

RFK Jr. fought pesticides for years. Now he’s backing their production

For years as an environmental lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. crusaded against a controversial herbicide ingredient known as glyphosate, even winning a landmark case against chemical giant Monsanto by arguing that its Roundup weedkiller contributed to his client's cancer.

FBI director invites scrutiny over travels with appearance at U.S. men’s hockey team celebration

When the American men's hockey team retreated to their locker room to celebrate their Winter Olympics gold medal win, they were joined by a special guest from the United States: FBI Director Kash Patel.

ICE officer training is ‘deficient’ and ‘broken,’ former agency lawyer tells congressional forum

A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer who was responsible for training new deportation officers warned Monday that the agency's training program for new recruits is "deficient, defective and broken."

Trump seeks reset on economy in State of the Union address

President Trump will stand before Congress and address the nation Tuesday night as a president in desperate need of a reset after a series of domestic setbacks have left his second-term agenda on thin ice.

Catholic leaders pushed Newsom to pardon attempted murderer as defiance of ICE

California Gov. Gavin Newsom was relying on Catholic Church leaders' assurances when he pardoned an attempted murder convict, protecting him from deportation.

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