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Person arrested in connection to suspicious packages found at DC-area military bases (Fox News)
A person was arrested Tuesday in connection with the series of packages containing explosive materials found at military bases in the greater Washington, D.C., area, a law enforcement official told Fox News.
Authorities said earlier Tuesday they were honing in on a suspect in the case. No possible motive was immediately disclosed.
Officials previously said they were looking at more than five locations in the area where the packages were received, including the White House and CIA mail facilities located at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, officials told Fox News. Authorities fear more packages could still be out there. [Read More]
2020 census to add question on citizenship status (Fox 5 DC)
The Commerce Department says the 2020 U.S. Census will include a question about citizenship status, a move that brought a swift response by the California attorney general to oppose it.
Commerce says in a press release issued Monday night that the citizenship data will help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voting rights.
But opponents say the question will discourage immigrants from responding to the census. A coalition of state attorneys general urged the Commerce Department last month to not add such a question, saying it could lower participation among immigrants and cause a population undercount.
The decennial census helps determine political representation in Congress, federal funding of programs and other matters. [Read More]
Former Supreme Court justice wants to repeal the Second Amendment (Washington Examiner)
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens called on gun control activists to demand a repeal of the Second Amendment in the wake of protests across the country aimed at pressuring lawmakers to act on stricter gun regulations.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Stevens, who was nominated by Republican President Gerald Ford and went on to be part of the court’s liberal block until his retirement in 2010, said students and gun control advocates should push lawmakers to go much further than banning semiautomatic weapons and increasing the minimum age to buy a firearm.
“That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms,” he wrote. “But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.” [Read More]
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department, whose leadership opposes the new California sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials, announced Monday that it is now providing public information on when inmates are released from custody.
As of Monday, March 26, an existing “Who’s in Jail” online database includes the date and time of inmates’ release – a move agency officials say will enhance communication with its law enforcement partners.
The release date information applies to all inmates, not just those who are suspected of being in the country illegally. But the goal is to assist agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
“This is in response to SB-54 limiting our ability to communicate with federal authorities and our concern that criminals are being released to the street when there’s another avenue to safeguard the community by handing them over (to ICE for potential deportation),” Orange County Undersheriff Don Barnes said. [Read More]
Teachers can’t afford Miami rents. The county has a plan: Let them live at school. (Miami Herald)
Amid a wide gap between modest teacher salaries and Miami’s high housing prices, the county has a new plan: build apartments on school property and let faculty live there.
A preliminary proposal includes constructing a new mid-rise middle school in the luxe Brickell area for Southside Elementary, with a floor devoted to residential units, and several more reserved for parking and the classrooms on top. If that goes well, Miami-Dade wants a full-fledged housing complex next to Phillis Wheatley Elementary, with as many as 300 apartments going up on the campus just north of downtown.
“It’s an exciting idea,” said Michael Liu, Miami-Dade’s housing director. “Land is at a premium in Miami-Dade County. It’s difficult to come by, especially in the urban core.” [Read More]
75% Of Parents Are Helping Their Adult Children Pay Bills (Daily Wire)
An astounding 75% of parents with adult children are helping them pay some of their bills, according to a new report from CreditCards.com
The financial planning site found that most parents of kids over the age of 18 “help them pay debts and living expenses. Thirty nine percent pay their cellphone, 36 transportation, 24 rent, 21 utilities and 20 percent pay their kids’ student loans.”
“They pay everything for me, because I just turned 18,” one woman who spoke to CBS news said. She followed that up by saying she knows people in their 40s whose parents still pay their cell phone bill. [Read More]
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