SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico will defy the U.S. government and approve a law to keep cockfighting alive in a bid to protect a 400-year-old tradition practiced across the island despite a federal ban that goes into effect this week, officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday night....
US Urged to Send Ebola Experts in as Congo Outbreak Worsens
JOHANNESBURG — Global health experts are urging the Trump administration to allow U.S. government disease specialists — "some of the world's most experienced" — to return to northeastern Congo to help fight the second-largest Ebola outbreak in history. The U.S. experts have been sidelined for weeks, ordered away from the...
Mi Familia Vota Supports Judge’s Decision to Halt Trump’s Asylum Ban
A federal judge Monday blocked the U.S. government from enforcing a ban on asylum by migrants who cross the southern border illegally. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco said President Donald Trump violated a "clear command" from Congress to allow migrants to apply. Trump introduced the measures to...
Some Facts About Immigrant Children in US Custody
The deaths of two migrant children in U.S. custody last month are bringing increased attention to how the nation is grappling with a surge of families and children traveling alone across the southern border, especially from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The Christmas Eve death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy in New...