The abductees, including an Irish missionary who directs care for children with special needs, were taken from an orphanage serving about 270 children.
Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui recently pushed back against Justice Department prosecutors for trying to convince him that he needed to be “highly deferential” to their request to keep a search warrant sealed.
“I wanted to prove something,” said Wyatt Curry, a student at Yuba College in Marysville, Calif., who competed in a reality show featuring aspiring machinists and welders racing to fabricate complex mechanical parts.
The speaker of the Texas House issued civil arrest warrants for lawmakers who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum, but the scattered Democrats remained defiant.
“I’m tired of fighting this fight with my hand tied behind my back,” said Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, who spoke alongside a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers.
More than a dozen progressive lawmakers had signed onto a draft letter, but a lack of Republican support meant it was unlikely to affect policy decisions by the Trump administration.
A union-backed effort would boost wages for hotel and airport workers. But with tourism down, and the city in a slump, hotel owners fear for their survival.
Rolando Quintanilla, a maintenance worker at the Hollywood Hotel. His wages would rise to $30 an hour under a measure passed by the Los Angeles City Council.
Thirteen people were treated for smoke inhalation after the fire ignited early Monday morning. Service was suspended on two lines for nearly five hours.
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Once part of the government’s case against the music mogul, a former girlfriend wrote to a judge in support of Mr. Combs’s request for bail ahead of sentencing.
Sean Combs in 2018. One of the music mogul’s ex-girlfriends wrote a letter to the judge overseeing his case, supporting his request for release on bail.