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(NEW YORK) -- As Khelin Marcano was preparing for her routine scheduled appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December, she debated packing a bag full of her 1-year-old daughter's clothes. While she and her husband had been attending appointments without issue, she knew others were being detained at government buildings by immigration authorities."When they told us we were being detained, it felt like we already knew, all along," Marcano […]

(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago teen who fought for her father's release from immigration detention while she was battling stage 4 cancer, has died, a representative for her family says.Ofelia Torres died Friday at age 16, according to the family representative. The cause of death was metastatic alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma -- a rare and aggressive form of cancer.Torres grabbed the national spotlight last fall after her undocumented father, Ruben Torres-Maldonado, was detained […]

(NEW YORK) -- Severe weather is headed to the deep South, from Texas to Mississippi, with damaging winds, possible tornadoes and some large hail forecast.A powerful storm system will move out of the Rockies on Saturday and will bring the severe weather across the deep South.Storms will move into Dallas, Texas, late Saturday morning, with some gusty winds and very heavy rain.The storms will move through Houston between 7 and […]