Nebraska governor announces plan for immigrant detention center to aid in Trump’s deportation efforts

[ad_1] Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen announced plans Tuesday for an immigration detention center in a farming area in the state’s southwest corner as President Trump’s administration races to expand the infrastructure necessary for increasing deportations. Pillen said he and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had agreed to use an existing minimum security prison work…

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Air traffic controller turns to DoorDash, gets loan as paychecks run dry during shutdown: “Pressure on top of pressure”

[ad_1] Air traffic controller Jack Criss is now clearing takeoffs and takeout orders. The single dad took on a side gig as a DoorDash delivery driver during the second-longest government shutdown in modern history in order to make some extra cash and cover his daughter’s high school tuition. For the past few weeks, air traffic…

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Cheetah cubs rescued from illegal trade in “one of the largest confiscations” of the endangered species, conservationist says

[ad_1] Eleven cheetah cubs were rescued from illegal trade in Somaliland in what a conservationist described on Thursday as “one of the largest confiscations of the species.” The cubs were packed in bags that resembled sacks of potatoes and were being transported in a small dhow off the Somaliland coast at Berbera when the local…

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Rubio urges Iran to talk, welcomes European nations’ bid to get U.N. sanctions reimposed over nuclear program

[ad_1] France, Britain and Germany on Thursday triggered a mechanism to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran for failing to comply with commitments over its nuclear program. The three countries notified the U.N. Security Council that they “believe Iran to be in significant non-performance of its commitments” under a 2015 nuclear deal and “hereby invoke…

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