Why tear gas lobbed migrants southern border is banned warfare
Homeland Security wanted to help track separated families at the border --
President Donald Trump's White House wasn't interested in tracking the families they separated, according to one former Homeland Security staffer. During an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes," Scott Shuchart explained that not only was Homeland Security never consulted about Trump's new Executive Ord...
Family separation and detention: Obama’s border policy vs. Trump’s - Vox
Trump hopes the courts will let him detain families like Obama did.
Article: Here's how the philosophers of selfishness came to use Christianit
Washington Post: ‘They shot the wrong man!’: Police said they killed a mall
Authorities initially said they had killed the person who shot an 18-year-old at a mall on Black Friday. The family of Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., son of a veteran, and police later agreed he was not the shooter.
A Government Climate Study Contradicts the President | WIRED
A massive new federal report describes a country in ecological collapse and infrastructural ruin by 2100. They released it on Black Friday.
Article: White Lecturer Calls Cops On Black Student Who Had Her Feet Up In
The University of Texas at San Antonio has said the student has "elected not to file a formal complaint of discrimination."
Article: Black security guard stops shooter in a bar — then gets gunned dow
Article: Trump's insults of black Americans are disgusting and dangerous
It’s not your imagination: President Trump, who regularly makes a point of personally insulting public figures who challenge or displease him in any way, taps into an especially toxic well of vitriol when aiming his attacks at black Americans, Errol Louis writes.
Emily Suvada’s gene-hacking trilogy is perfect YA sci-fi - The Verge
The instant I finished Emily Suvada’s This Mortal Coil and This Cruel Design, I wanted to get these books into the hands of every teenager I know. The trilogy rivals The Hunger Games for its whirlwind life-or-death drama, while giving the carefully crafted science of Orphan Black a run for its money.
The Barriers That Keep Blacks and Latinos From Voting
A new survey from The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute shows that black and Hispanic citizens are more likely than whites to face barriers at the polls—and to fear the future erosion of their basic political rights.
Amazon.com: Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free, 10.1" 1080p Full HD Di
Amazon.com: Fire HD 10 Tablet with Alexa Hands-Free, 10.1" 1080p Full HD Display, 32 GB, Black (Previous Generation - 7th) : Electronics
A Week Of American Hate: Bombs Mailed, Black People Executed, Jews Slaughtered
Hate showed what it is truly capable of in America this week.
Article: The Retribution for Evangelicals Who Sold Their Souls to Trump Is
Trump is arguably the logical culmination of some strains of right-wing evangelical Christianity in America
Article: Stranded Astronauts Orbit Earth as Nuclear War Rages in This Stunn
With a stark black-and-white palette that resembles manga art come to life, Tomasz Popakul’s Black tells a Twilight Zone-ish tale of two astronauts who
Article: Learning From Laura Ingalls Wilder
The author’s popular Little House books sought to challenge the way many Americans saw their country’s history, with deeply mixed results.
Article: New lawsuit shows your phone is unsafe at American borders
A recent case filed in federal court, in which an American woman had her iPhone seized and cracked by Customs and Border Protection in a New Jersey airport puts a whole new spin on the things we now need to worry about when leaving the country. It appears that now everyone's phones, despite country of origin or cause, are subject to nonconsensual seizure and search -- even if we refuse to give up our passwords.
If you're not caught up on the story, news hit this week that a Staten Island mom coming home from a February trip with her 9-year-old daughter from Switzerland had her iPhone snatched, kept for months and accessed for no given reason. Apple did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.
Article: 10 Top Cybersecurity Trends To Watch For At Black Hat 2018
As we head into Black Hat 2018, CRN talks with executives from nine prominent cybersecurity vendors to see the top cybersecurity trends they are on the lookout for at this year's event.
Article: Bank Teller Called Cops On Elderly Black Woman Cashing A Check, Ev
Barbara Carroll feels like a victim of institutionalized racism.
Article: Ving Rhames Was Held at Gunpoint by Police for Being in His Own Ho
A neighbor reported that a "large black man" had broken in.
Article: Canvas catches, and maybe passes, Blackboard as top learning manag
Blackboard dominated the U.S. learning management system market for 20 years, but new data show its cloud-based competitor edging past it.
Article: Vacation turns into 'Handmaid's Tale' when US Customs demands to k
A mother and daughter were flying back from a European vacation when an agent at Customs and Border Protection couldn't understand why their last names were different."I was asked if Sybonae was my daughter and I said yes," Sylvia Acosta wrote on Facebook. "Then they asked why if she was my daughter...
Hundreds of children wait in Border Patrol facility in Texas
McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing. One cage had 20 children inside.
Statistic Of The Day: Trump Administration Planning On Holding 30,000 Refug
Terrible news from today’s Washington Examiner – see Trump administration could be holding 30,000 border kids by August, officials say. I’ve been regularly updating The Bes…
Article: DHS: Nearly 2,000 Children Separated From Adults At Border In 6 We
The government says the Office of Refugee Resettlement, charged with finding homes for solo children or those who have been separated from their families, has more than 10,000 children in shelters.
Article: You Can’t Be Pro-Life and Against Immigrant Children
The Trump administration’s border policy deserves strong condemnation.
U.S. government says nearly 2,000 child separations at Mexico border in und
The government said on Friday that 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults at the U.S.-Mexico border between April 19 and May 31, as the Trump administration implements stricter border enforcement policies.
Article: Separated at the Border From Their Parents: In Six Weeks, 1,995 Ch
The Department of Homeland Security released the figures as President Trump sought to shift blame for practice that has become the signature policy of his immigration agenda.
1,995 children separated from families at border under 'zero tolerance' pol
That's approximately 46 children a day over a six-week period.
Kids suffer permanent damage from border separations
Trauma can damage both the brain and the body, doctors say.