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By SUDHIN THANAWALA and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom from another room. Martin, blocked from

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press State lawmakers across the U.S. are pushing to use more taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuitions and homeschooling expenses even as they try to figure out how to budget in a time of economic uncertainty. A $1 billion-per-year voucher program the Texas Legislature sent to

By MORGAN LEE Associated Press Immigration and civil rights advocates have renewed concerns that immigrants detained at Guantanamo Bay are being held in extreme isolation, cut off from meaningful access to legal counsel or candid communication with relatives, according to a new court filing Saturday. In a lawsuit brought on behalf or two Nicaraguan immigrants

EVANS, Ga. (AP) — Two Georgia deputies were shot during a traffic stop Saturday evening and one of them is dead, law enforcement officials said. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the deputy’s death around 6:30 p.m. and said the other deputy was taken to a hospital, WRDW-TV reported. The suspect was identified as James

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday.