In the vaulted stillness of Chicago’s House of Hope, the nation gathered Friday to bid a final farewell to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, a titan of the civil rights movement who spent over half a century agitation for the “dispossessed and the disrespected.” Yet, the solemnity of the occasion has been eclipsed by a sharp [...]
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Appeals Court Blocks Obama Judge’s Order To Close ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ In Everglades
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily halted a lower court’s decision to shut down the Alligator Alcatraz detention facility located in the Florida Everglades. This comes after U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams issued an order last month to begin closing the site within 60 days, citing environmental concerns raised by environmental groups [...]
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