The measure, which takes effect July 1, will allow local police officers to question some suspects about their immigration status.

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Georgia Gives Police Added Power to Seek Out Illegal Immigrants

Two federal marshals and a police officer were victims of a shootout while making an arrest in St. Louis Tuesday morning, local police confirmed. The victims were all taken to local hospitals, but police are not disclosing details about their…

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Two Federal Marshals Shot in Gunfight

Here, in the Pacific Northwest, the latest in a long line of First Amendment abuses by local police has fanned concerns about government spying. Domestic surveillance of peaceful activism is not only offensive and illegitimate, but also a serious threat to our Constitution that we must stop before it grows even worse. As our state legislature has already decided: read more

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Why the Towery File Matters: Illegal Surveillance in Washington State

A student named Robert Butler, Jr. stormed Millard South High School in Omaha on Wednesday, shooting the principal and one other person who was not a student. Butler, who was the son of a local police officer, was wearing a bulletproof vest, according…

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School Shooting in Omaha

Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.

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Monitoring America

New York – Putting local police on the “front lines” of immigration enforcement is distracting federal agencies from their objectives by turning over people with no criminal history, or those who have committed minor or non-violent crimes, and setting them on a course toward unnecessary deportation. read more

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Few Big Fish Land in Immigration Dragnet

Two suicide bombers attacked a U.N. compound in western Afghanistan and several insurgents were now inside the building, local police said on Saturday.

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Afghan Insurgents Attack U.N. Office

A former cellist with the rock group Electric Light Orchestra was killed in southwestern England on Monday in a car crash involving a large bale of hay, local police said.

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Ex-ELO member killed in freak accident