WASHINGTON — Federal immigration officials need to ensure that body cameras worn by officers are uniformly activated when needed, a government report released Wednesday said, following a series of contentious shootings and aggressive arrests by ICE officers. The agency rejected the recommendation, saying that using cameras that automatically activate when an officer pulls their weapon
BANGOR, Maine — Speaker Mike Johnson made a campaign swing Wednesday through Maine’s picturesque second congressional district, convinced Republicans will defy history and maintain their House majority, as he worked to boost GOP candidate Paul LePage in what is one of the party’s best hopes to flip a Democratic-held seat. The speaker told a small
Cornell University’s handling of an alleged fraternity house gang rape is raising questions about how a decades-old federal civil rights law shapes colleges’ treatment of campus sexual assault. The focus on Title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimination in education, comes after a woman identified only as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit last month against Cornell
PORTLAND, Maine — The Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of a lobster fisherman who alleged the government requiring commercial fishing boats to use electronic tracking devices amounts to unreasonable search and seizure. Maine lobster fisherman Frank Thompson sued after his state began requiring all federally permitted lobstermen to install GPS trackers on
LOS ANGELES — The Justice Department has threatened California with possible legal action over what it says are noncitizens believed to have received mail ballots for next month’s midterm elections. A letter Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber from Trent McCotter, the acting deputy attorney general, says that the Justice Department has provided officials
Six people, including a child, were killed in a plane crash near Wisconsin Dells, according to the Sauk County Sheriff’s Department DELLONA, Wis. — Six people, including one child, were killed Tuesday night in a plane crash near Wisconsin Dells, the Sauk County Sheriff’s Department said. The six-seat, single-engine plane was traveling from Kenosha to