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Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- A judge on Wednesday barred a major U.S. private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials.

Sen. Kit Bond, whose mastery of pork-barrel spending benefitted his native Missouri, dies at 86

Sen. Kit Bond, whose mastery of pork-barrel spending benefitted his native Missouri, dies at 86

Christopher "Kit" Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in the U.S. Senate and who was state's the youngest person to be governor, died Tuesday. He was 86.

With the funeral behind them, family of the firefighter killed at the Trump rally begins grieving

With the funeral behind them, family of the firefighter killed at the Trump rally begins grieving

The funeral is over. The crowds have left. Now the hard work of grieving is beginning for the family of a former fire chief who was shot and killed during the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.