Tag: Law

Smoke rises from a chemical plant in Crosby, near Houston, Texas, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. Thick black smoke and towering orange flames shot up Friday from the flooded Houston-area chemical plant after two trailers of highly unstable compounds blew up a day earlier after losing refrigeration. Arkema says Harvey's floodwaters engulfed its backup generators and knocked out the refrigeration necessary to keep it's nine containers of organic peroxides from degrading and catching fire.

Energy and Environment

Chemical safety board faults Texas chemical plant that exploded during Hurricane Harvey

Josh Siegel · May 24, 2018 8:45 pm

Senate votes to make lawmakers pay sexual harassment settlements

Susan Ferrechio · May 24, 2018 6:47 pm

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals outside the Capitol Washington.

Two more Republicans sign petition to force immigration vote

Susan Ferrechio · May 24, 2018 3:52 pm

Planned Parenthood leaves door open to lawsuit on Trump’s ‘gag rule’

Kimberly Leonard · May 24, 2018 3:14 pm

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nogales Placement Center in Nogales, Ariz. processes illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

ICE director: Dems defend MS-13, but call border officers Nazis

Pete Kasperowicz · May 24, 2018 1:03 pm

In this photo taken May 8, 2017, FBI Director James Comey speaks in Washington. President Donald Trump has fired Comey. In a statement released Tuesday, May 9, Trump says Comeyâs firing âwill mark a new beginningâ for the FBI.

Trump: Comey was one of the ‘rotten apples’ at the FBI

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2018 10:48 am

President Trump speaks during a roundtable on immigration policy at Morrelly Homeland Security Center.

Trump: ‘Democrats are sticking up for MS-13’ gang members

Katelyn Caralle · May 24, 2018 10:34 am

Tomas Martinez, of Atlanta, Ga., chants during a rally in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2013, calling for of immigration reform. Demonstrators are urging President Barack Obama to use executive authority to expand the policy that allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump wants the ‘whole package’ in an immigration deal

Melissa Quinn · May 24, 2018 10:33 am

The Supreme Court on Monday is hearing arguments on immigration. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump says ‘change’ immigration court system for ‘good of the country’: ‘Maybe I’ll have to put’ my sister ‘at the border’

Christian Datoc · May 24, 2018 10:22 am

President Trump said the NFL was right to fine players for kneeling for the national anthem, as players for the Dallas Cowboys and many other teams did last year. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Trump: NFL players ‘shouldn’t be in the country’ if they kneel for the anthem

Katelyn Caralle · May 24, 2018 10:22 am

A bride's henna-decorated hands are shown as she is about to sign her marriage contract.

Beltway Confidential

The UK wins an overdue victory against forced marriage

Tom Rogan · May 23, 2018 7:35 pm

Ohio Democratic voters challenge state’s congressional map in court

Melissa Quinn · May 23, 2018 7:20 pm