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(WASHINGTON) -- Telesforo Cerero-Palacios is a home renovator in Minnesota who says he has no reported criminal history, so he was shocked to learn the Department of Homeland Security listed him as one of the "worst of the worst" detained immigrants in the U.S. who have serious offenses. "What happened here? Why does their system say this about you?" Cerero-Palacios, 53, recalled after a relative saw him on the list.The DHS website features thousands who the agency claims are the […]

(NEW YORK) -- Measurements of coastal sea-level height around the world may be higher than scientists previously thought, according to new research.Past research may even have underestimated coastal sea level heights around the world by an average of .3 meters, or about 1 feet, a study published Wednesday in Nature found.Sea levels in some areas in the Global South -- regions such as Asia and the South Pacific -- could be up […]

Signage outside the US Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department is proposing a new policy that would seek to limit the ability of state bar associations to launch ethics probes into DOJ attorneys, according to a new document posted Wednesday in the Federal Register. The proposal, which comes amid growing scrutiny of the department's […]