Church World Service to Close Charlotte Office Serving Unaccompanied Migrant Children

Gather ‘round, friends, because it’s time… once again… for America’s favorite ongoing disaster series: “Florida Man!”. Today’s episode? Oh, it’s a masterpiece. A real Shakespearean tragedy… if Shakespeare had been raised on meth, gator jerky, and Monster Energy.

The U.S. House Agriculture Committee approved, 29-25, Wednesday evening its portion of Republicans’ major legislative package that includes a provision that would shift to states some of the responsibility to pay for a major nutrition assistance program.

For Rae Vermeal, the experience of one Pima County senior illustrates the complexity of the housing struggle for older people in the region. The woman owns her home and gets $967 through Social Security.

Southern California Weather Force models are continuing to show the upper-level low moving into the Raiden Storm Diamond. As result, the northern periphery of the system is bringing scattered showers across Kern and San Luis Obispo County this morning.

STORM PREDICTION CENTER INDICATES ENHANCED RISK (30 PERCENT CHANCE) SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS & A 10 PERCENT CHANCE FOR EF2- EF5 TORNADOES (115 MPH+ WINDS) ACROSS ALL OF TENNESEE, MUCH OF GEORGIA AS WELL AS MISSISSIPPI & ALABAMA.

The massive tax and spending bill passed by U.S. House Republicans would likely result in 3.2 million people losing food assistance benefits, and saddle states with around $14 billion a year in costs, according to a new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

I graduated from Virginia State University with a degree in English and Literature in 1968. It is always good to see other graduates receive their degrees from VSU. On Saturday, May 17, 2025, VSU held a morning and an afternoon spring commencement ceremony in the Multipurpose Center at 20809 2nd Avenue in Petersburg, Virginia. A total of 650 degrees were handed out, according to WRIC 8 News.

Editor’s note: This story is being republished from Kansas News Service. Jose Madrid-Leiva thought he had done everything right. The Guatemalan father of three had always presented himself to immigration authorities and cooperated in court proceedings. And when he fell victim to an armed robbery in 2022, making him eligible for certain immigration protections, he filed the paperwork and paid the fees.

The Denver Department of Human Services this week took seven children from a homeless couple that were living out of their van. Housekeys Action Network Denver, or HAND, shared the story last month of Rehema Cranmer, her partner and their seven children. HAND explained in a statement that the family had to “play Tetris” to fit into the van. People read the article and donated to a fund to buy Cranmer’s family a new van, which they recently acquired, according to HAND.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union in his home state when things quickly devolved.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro warned Wednesday that the Medicaid cuts Congress is considering would mean billions of dollars in lost federal aid to Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of people losing access to the health insurance program and more struggling rural hospitals shutting their doors.

In a segment of The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham hosted a discussion about Kamala Harris’ declining support among Black men, featuring former Black Lives Matter activist Xaviaer Durousseau and YouTuber Anton Daniels. The conversation focused on the growing dissatisfaction with Harris, as Durousseau attributed the erosion of support to her lack of accomplishments during her tenure as Vice President.

This article was originally published on ChaChingQueen.com, a site my wife and I own. AI was used for light editing, formatting, and readability. But a human (me!) wrote and edited this.

Kentucky’s federal delegation, including U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and Representatives Hal Rogers (KY-05), Brett Guthrie (KY-02), Andy Barr (KY-06), James Comer (KY-01), Thomas Massie (KY-04), and Morgan McGarvey (KY-03) sent a letter to President Trump expressing their support for Governor Beshear’s request for Public Assistance in 85 counties, additional Individual Assistance for 24 counties, and Hazard Mitigation for the entire Commonwealth as a result of the devastating flooding in April.

This story appears as part of a collaboration between The Maine Monitor and Maine Focus, the investigative team of the Bangor Daily News, a partnership to strengthen investigative journalism in Maine. Read more about the partnership.

In a recent interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a verbal dig at the LGBTQ community in relation to Harvard University’s educational programs.

Ladies and gentlemen, gather ’round for another edition of “What in the Actual Florida?!”. Today’s breaking news: Florida leads the nation in vehicle drownings. Not shark attacks. Not gator bites. Not someone being arrested for trying to marry an alligator.

Donovan Elliot, 61, admitted to distributing large quantities of methamphetamine and fentanyl-laced heroin, with sentencing scheduled for September in New Jersey. A Queens Village, New York, man pleaded guilty in federal court in Newark to drug trafficking charges involving multiple kilograms of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and fentanyl-laced heroin, federal prosecutors announced.

The future of a Wyoming-focused science team that helped understand and popularize the phenomenon of wildlife migration is uncertain after a series of moves by the Trump administration’s U.S. Geological Survey to hollow out or even end its 43 cooperative research units.

HAZLETON – The man accused in the brutal killing of a Nuremberg woman has been... The post CAUGHT: Suspect in Hazleton homicide arrested by U.S. Marshals first appeared on The Shenandoah Sentinel .

If travel to Mexico is on your Summer vacation plans, you need to be aware of the latest US State Department Travel Advisories - some which could literally save your life. First, you should be aware that the US State Department has placed six Mexican States under "Do Not Travel" advisories for US Residents, mainly due to the threat of violent crime by the Cartels there.

A ninety-degree afternoon can tempt anyone to jump into a Sierra reservoir, but the water waiting below the surface is often cold enough to kill. Many California lakes—especially the big, snow-fed reservoirs and alpine basins such as Lake Tahoe—hold water that rarely climbs above 70 °F, even in July and August.

There’s no doubt that bloated government bureaucracies need pruning—like an overgrown forest choking off light and life beneath. Universities, too, have often lost their way, nurturing ideological extremes and tolerating open defiance of civil norms. Harvard and other elite institutions have enabled left-wing extremism, including support for Hamas and a disturbing rise in antisemitism. Free speech has suffered, and accountability has waned. These institutions must be held to U.S. laws and ethical standards.

Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies are targeting cartel "stash houses" filled with illegal aliens along the U.S. border. The stash houses serve as waystations for illegal aliens who paid a cartel to be smuggled into the country, where they await handoff to other human traffickers who will transport them further north from the border.

A contentious plan to fully eliminate free-roaming horses from a Delaware-sized region in southwest Wyoming has cleared its environmental review process, and roundups are scheduled to start in about seven weeks.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency, a move some former federal officials warn could increase the risk of catastrophic blazes and ultimately cost billions of dollars.

In a recent episode of The Ingraham Angle, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and the current administration’s economic policies, particularly following the recent disappointing jobs reports. Hawley argued that the past four years have been a catastrophe, for which Harris is directly responsible.

President Trump’s budget proposal “is bad for the work to end homelessness,” according to Ann Oliva, chief executive officer of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. “From zeroing out the Continuum of Care and (Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS) programs in favor of an inadequate Emergency Solutions Grants increase, to eliminating the Community Development Block Grant and HOME programs, to major changes and cuts in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s rental assistance programs, to cuts in other critical supports — this budget would (if passed) be disastrous for already-marginalized people, especially those experiencing homelessness and housing instability.”

Low pressure is sitting over the Gulf States and not moving very much but it is spreading waves of rain northward into the Southeastern US. This is setting up to be a very wet stretch of weather for at least the next 3 days from Sunday through Tuesday. Rain fell yesterday and an additional 3 to 5 inches of rain is forecast for much of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. This opens the door for flash flooding and the Weather Prediction Center is indicating a "slight risk" (15 to 40% chance) for flash flooding across these three states .

Two more men who entered the US illegally have been arrested in recent days for murders committed in the countries from which they fled. On May 6, 2025, in Dana Point, California, US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agents took a Salvadoran man into custody on an INTERPOL warrant seeking his arrest for a double murder committed in his homeland. ICE says the man was also a member of the violent MS-13 gang.