WASHINGTON President Barack Obama’s plan to shield more than 4 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation is on hold after a judge temporarily blocked the effort. One program to help immigrants brought to the country as children was scheduled to kick in today, but instead Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said U.S. […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan While vaccine distrust has sparked debates amid a measles outbreak in the United States, Pakistan is in a deadly battle to wipe out polio. Long eradicated in the West, polio remains endemic in Pakistan after the Taliban banned vaccinations, attacks targeted medical staffers and suspicions lingered about the inoculations. The persistence of this […]

TRENTON, N.J. A rabbi who prosecutors say forced unwilling Jewish husbands to divorce their wives is set to have his day in court. Rabbi Mendel Epstein’s trial is scheduled to begin today in federal court after it was delayed because of a snowstorm. Prosecutors say the Orthodox rabbi gathered a kidnap team to make unwilling […]

DENVER Denver’s police chief told officers not to intervene, but to stand by and watch, as protesters threw red paint on a memorial for fallen officers during a weekend march against police brutality. The stand-down order upset some officers, who said it sends a message that protesters can get away with increasingly brazen crimes. But […]

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OCOEE, Fla. (AP) — Teens must now be accompanied by adults at night in a Florida mall where youths mobbed a movie theater after they were barred from seeing the Rrated movie “Fifty Shades of Grey.” West Oak Mall officials in the Orlando suburb of Ocoee said Monday that all teens must be accompanied by […]