Lawmakers said they had reached the agreement after an impasse over the number of ICE detention beds had threatened to derail negotiations.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/us/politics/shutdown-deal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
El Paso, Ilhan Omar, Winter Storm: Your Tuesday Briefing
Here’s what you need to know.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/briefing/el-paso-ilhan-omar-winter-storm.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Grand Jury Transcripts in Mass Lynching Case Should Be Released, Court Rules
No one was ever charged in the July 1946 Moore’s Ford lynchings in Walton County, Ga. More than 70 years later, new information could be forthcoming.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/us/moores-ford-lynchings.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
‘This Is My Space’: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Unabashedly Feminist Campaign
The New York senator has chosen a singular path to the presidency, making running as a woman, for women, the central theme of her campaign.
The Biggest Economic Divides Aren’t Regional. They’re Local. (Just Ask Parents.)
Why people living in smaller cities or towns tend to give higher ratings to their communities.
California Has a High Rate of Police Shootings. Could a New Open-Records Law Change That?
Just as activists and state lawmakers have sought to bring records of decades-old cases to light, police unions have tried to jam the door shut.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/us/california-police-records.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Lens: A Refugee’s Story: ‘No One’s Family Is Perfect but Mine Is Perfect for Me’
In documenting his family members’ refugee experiences, Wesaam Al-Badry captured their character and ways of maneuvering through life.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/lens/refugee-iraq-family.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Top Leader at Interior Dept. Pushes a Policy Favoring His Former Client
David Bernhardt, the agency’s acting chief, wants to roll back endangered-species protections on a tiny fish, a change that benefits few outside a California group he once represented as a lobbyist.
On Politics: Tentative Deal Reached to Avert Shutdown
House and Senate negotiators agreed “in principle” to provide $1.375 billion for physical barriers at the southwestern border, a deal that appears to be a victory for Democrats.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/us/politics/on-politics-deal-shutdown.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Immigration Talks Move From Wall to Real Fight: How to Enforce the Law
The fight over detention beds under President Trump’s control goes to the heart of the immigration issue: Should undocumented immigrants be swept up indiscriminately?
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