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The Biden administration will restart a controversial Trump-era border program that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. immigration hearings, in keeping with a federal court order, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Thursday. The United States will take steps to address Mexico's humanitarian concerns with the program, the officials said, including offering vaccines to migrants and exempting more categories of people deemed vulnerable. Migrants also will be asked if they have a fear of persecution or torture in Mexico before being enrolled in the program and have access to legal representation, U.S. officials said during a call with reporters on Thursday. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, ended the policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) soon after his inauguration in January. But a federal judge ruled Biden's rescission did not follow proper procedure and in August ordered its reinstatement. The U.S. government said it had to wait for Mexico's agr

WASHINGTON, D.C. – DECEMBER 01: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to the President, delivers an update on the Omicron COVID-19 variant during the daily press briefing at the White House on December 01, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The first known case of the COVID Omicron variant in the U.S. has been detected in California. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) made the announcement on Wednesday and said the infected individual is fully vaccinated, has mild symptoms and is self-quarantining. Dr. Anthony Fauci said the individual had returned from South Africa to the San Francisco Bay area on Nov. 22. This comes as no surprise as health officials anticipated the variant would spread to the U.S. after initially being detected in South Africa last week. Scientists have said Omicron could be more contagious, but it’s unclear whether the variant is more dan

A well wisher kneels to pray at a memorial on the sign of Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at the school, killing several students and wounding multiple other people, including a teacher. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) The alleged gunman in the Michigan high school shooting is set to be tried as an adult on one count of terrorism causing death and four first-degree murder charges. Authorities announced the charges and others against 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley on Wednesday. This comes as 17-year-old Justin Shilling passed away at the hospital Wednesday morning, after being shot at Oxford High School near Detroit on Tuesday. Authorities have identified 17-year-old Madisyn Baldwin, 16-year-old Tate Myre and 14-year-old Hana Juliana as the other victims who died in the shooting. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer expressed her condolences to the victims and their families. “My heart, like any mom or dad in Michigan, is with the parents o

Skip to cconte   • Lead counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenious People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, yesterday, berated the Department of State Services, DSS, for granting a former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, private access to his client in detention. Ejiofor, who described Kalu’s visit to his client as “bizarre and unusual”, maintained that it was in gross violation of the court-ordered guideline for visitation. Ejiofor spoke as the family of the detained Leader of   IPOB has expressed rage and disappointment over what it called “confusing , incoherent, disparaging and uncomplimentary  remarks” by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu after his visit to the IPOB Leader at the  DSS headquarters  where he is currently detained. This is even as the Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has said that the Monday sit-at- home order being observed in the southeast is hurting the economy of the people of the state. On Kalu’s visit, Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyer also alleg

Four people are dead, including a police officer, after officers responded to a domestic disturbance call Tuesday in Clayton County, south of metro Atlanta. According to  WSB-TV,  Field Training Officer Henry Laxson was fatally shot, along with two women and the suspected shooter, Clayton County police said. A child and another officer were also shot, Clayton County Police Chief Kevin Roberts said. The child is in critical but stable condition. The officer, identified as Alex Chandler, is expected to survive. Police said on Tuesday night they were called to a domestic disturbance. It was not immediately clear exactly where the shooting had taken place. Police received another call about a child shot at a second location. By the time officers arrived, they found the child and one of the women in the yard. They said that while they were trying to render aid, someone started firing on the officers from an unknown location. The suspect was killed during the exchange of gunfire with officer

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have stated that they are still investigating the mobile phones seized from pro-democracy campaigner and human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, from as far back as August 2019. Sowore, the publisher of SaharaReporters, had instituted a suit against the DSS to compel the agency to return his phones seized since August 2019 when he was first arrested. The case came up on Wednesday before Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court, Abuja. In the opening statement by Sowore’s lawyer, Mrs Funmi Falana, she prodded the DSS lawyer on the illegality of the seizures. The DSS lawyer rambled away while trying to explain why the lawless organisation, known for human rights violations, could not provide a valid court order that led them to seize the phones and take N10,000 from his hotel room during his abduction in August 2019. The DSS told Justice Chikere that the phones were “recovered” during his arrest and not seized. The agency added

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, meets with Jewish community leaders during a visit to the Talmud Torah synagogue in Rabat, Morocco, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Israel’s defense minister said Thursday he hopes a better nuclear deal will come out of upcoming talks between world powers and Iran, but that Israel is hedging its bets and building up its military capabilities. (AP Photo/Ilan Ben Zion) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated his commitment to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. While speaking at a Conservative Friends of Israel meeting in London on Monday, he said Britain fully supports Israel and he understands that Iran is seeking to destabilize the region. “And it is for the sake of peace that the U.K. supports Israel’s right to defend itself with no equivocation, including from hostile states like Iran,” he stated. Johnson’s remarks come amid ongoing indirect talks between the Biden administration and the Ayatollah regime to restore the Obama-era