Years ago, Rosa watched from inside the car as men robbed her husband at gunpoint, shortly after they’d arrived in Minnesota from Guatemala. The couple had a pending asylum case, but once they reported the crime to the police, they were eligible for a U visa, which provides a path to legal permanent residency for victims of and witnesses to serious crimes — and, in some cases, their immediate family members. At her request, the Reformer is using Rosa’s first name to protect her from government retribution. Rosa is among dozens of people who were detained by immigration authorities during Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, despite having permission to live and work in the United States because they were victims of a crime and reported it to the police. One man survived a shooting in 2019 that took him out of work for six months and left him permanently disabled. Another was stabbed in the leg during a 2016 robbery in Minneapolis. Others survived human trafficking, felony assaults and armed robberies. In one case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents broke down a family’s front door and arrested all three people inside — without a warrant, according to the lawsuit. The Reformer analyzed more than 1,100 habeas corpus petitions — federal lawsuits challenging a person’s detention — filed in Minnesota between December and mid-March and identified at least 75 people who were detained by immigration agencies despite having been granted work permits and deportation protections allowed to crime victims. That number is likely an undercount. Many immigrants did not have access to attorneys for long stretches, couldn’t afford legal fees, or were shipped out of state before their lawyers could file the lawsuit in Minnesota.

In Illinois, the implications threaten not only individual households but also the viability of the Chicago area’s independent authorized SNAP retailers.

A Houston man faces a criminal case in Travis County for, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety, threatening the Governor’s Office over a law the man allegedly said prevented him from watching an anime. Joseph Roy Ozment, 35, faces one third-degree felony count of terroristic threat against a public servant. KXAN has reached out to his court-appointed counsel for comment. According to an affidavit written by a DPS special agent, Ozment allegedly called the Governor’s Office on the afternoon of July 25. DPS claims Ozment left the following voicemail (KXAN has redacted the profanity in the transcript provided by DPS): “I don’t know which one of you sons of b—-es passed this motherf—ing bill to get this damn s— blocking my motherf—ing anime, but you whole a– motherf—ers need to unpass this s—. Y’all are f—ing ridiculous with your b—- a–es. My Google account says I’m f—ing over the age of 18, and your dumba– is passing these dumba– laws. I’m a f—ing stab every godd— one of you b—-es. Unlock my f—ing anime.” The call was made from a cell phone that DPS claimed was registered to Ozment.

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention.

In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?

Hopefully this is the final issue found with the problematic Boeing 737 Max.

The detective involved in 2009 alleged Army spying scandal in Washington state attended an Israeli police training, documents show

Ten of eleven DA offices answered my records requests. More than six million charges later, here is what the data shows — and what the state's own auditor, oversight board, and researchers say about the system it lives in.

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Is the evolution of excrement the reason we exist?

People will follow Spider-Man anywhere, unless someone in the theater drops a powerful fart that sends everyone stampeding into the lobby. According to reports from the New York Post and TMZ — bastions of journalistic integrity — that’s what happened during a screening of Spider-Man: Brand New Day at a Cine Colombia multiplex inside Plaza Bocagrande in Cartagena, Colombia.

The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

A wildfire driven by high winds has jumped the Spokane River and is threatening neighborhoods near and within the city of Spokane.

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

NEW YORK — A school district in a rural corner of upstate New York is hitting pause on plans to deploy an AI-powered, humanoid robot in the classroom after state education officials, teachers and local residents raised concerns, including the maker's ties to a company that produces hyper realistic sex bots. The Salamanca City Central School District's board approved the nearly $60,000 purchase from Realbotix with visions that "Sally," as the stationary robot with long dark hair has already been nicknamed, would enhance the education of high school students studying robotics and technology fields.

While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials. A man has been jailed in Italy for fraud after charging tourists €40 to visit a fake Roman amphitheatre he built himself twenty years ago. Franco Malosso 'von Rosenfranz', 69, claimed to have discovered the site, known as the Berico Maritime Amphitheatre in the north-eastern city of Vicenza, after a landslide in 2005. According to Italy's Correiere della Sera, Malosso told visitors the site was one of the world’s "oldest and largest amphitheatres" and dated back to AD 393. He claimed that Julius Caesar had visited it on his return to Rome from Egypt with Cleopatra, and that Shakespeare’s famous ficitional character Juliet Capulet had lived in an old church there. In addition, Malosso described himself as a "philantropist, entrepreneur and orchestra conductor" and managed to persuade local authorities to include the in Vicenza's EU-funded tourism guide and online app.

An amendment to the Charles County Public Schools’ student conduct code will prohibit students from wearing medical masks without a doctor’s note or 504 special education plan documenting a medical