Chicago Elementary School Successfully Stops ICE Agents From Entering Building Under district policy, ICE agents are only allowed access to CPS facilities if they present official credentials, provide a valid reason for their visit, and produce a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge. read more
Last week, an Amarillo, Texas-based U.S. District judge ruled that three states can proceed with a lawsuit that would limit the availability of the abortion pill mifepristone. read more
Lockheed Martin's Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Shelly O'Neill Stoneman is under fire from the Trump transition and House Armed Services Committee after Republicans exposed her political opinions as woke and incompatible with the incoming Trump administration. Stoneman, a former Obama administration aide, offered strong political commentary for years on her X account. She apparently deleted the account on Friday after Breitbart News requested comment. She resigned under pressure. read more
A driver crashed his pickup truck into a crowd celebrating New Year's Day in New Orleans' French Quarter and opened fire, killing 10 people and injuring more than 35, in an early morning attack the FBI said was a potential act of terrorism. read more
The slimmed-down version was stripped of language that would have allowed children with relapsed cancer to undergo treatments with a combination of cancer drugs and therapies. (Currently the Food and Drug Administration is only authorized to direct pediatric cancer trials of single drugs.) The bill also didn't include an extension of a program that gave financial lifelines, in the form of vouchers, to small pharmaceutical companies working on rare pediatric diseases. It was also missing earlier provisions that would have allowed for kids on Medicaid or CHIP"that is, poor children"to access medically complex care across state lines. For political veterans, however, the most striking absence in the revised bill was the language that would have extended funding for the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Program. read more
And other countries are denying overflights and landing to these flights