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The Supreme Court hears Twitter v. Taamneh on Feb. 22, 2023. The case will decide whether social media companies can be sued for aiding and abetting a specific act of international terrorism when the platforms have hosted user content that expresses general support for the group behind the violence without referring to the specific terrorist act in question. The plaintiffs in the case are the family members of Nawras Alassaf, who was killed in an ISIS attack in Istanbul in 2017. They have alleged that social media companies including Twitter had knowingly aided ISIS in violation of a U.S, antiterrorism law by allowing some of the group's content to persist on their platforms despite policies intended to limit that type of content. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Supreme Court backs Arizona convict in death sentence case

The Supreme Court said a death row convict in Arizona should get a new chance to argue against his sentence, ruling Wednesday that the state's high court should have given him a chance to tell jurors his alternative was life in prison without parole.

February 22, 2023
Two women from Cuba try to keep warm after crossing the border from Mexico and surrendering to authorities to apply for asylum on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, near Yuma, Arizona. An underground market has emerged for migrants seeking U.S. sponsors since the Biden administration announced last month that it would accept a limited number of people from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. Applicants for the humanitarian parole program need someone in the U.S. to promise to provide financial support for at least two years. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

DHS revives Trump-style asylum limits to stop new border surge

The Biden administration proposed new rules Tuesday to block illegal immigrants from jumping the border to file bogus asylum claims, embracing a Trump-style policy that President Biden had once labeled a "humanitarian disaster."

February 21, 2023
A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

DOJ tells justices not to erase legal protections for Big Tech

The Justice Department says social media companies like YouTube and Twitter shouldn't be held liable for hosting other people's content, but also says the tech giants may cross lines when they insert themselves into the situation by deciding what to promote.

February 17, 2023
Tile subcontractor Horacio Gomez, right, originally from the Mexican state of Michoacan, measures and talks with homebuilder Joshua Correa about plans at a custom home under construction in Plano, Texas, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ** FILE **

Immigrants in workforce surge under Biden; native-born lag behind

More than 2 million new immigrants have arrived to take jobs in the U.S. since 2019, according to a new study released Thursday that challenges a growing chorus of voices arguing the country needs more immigrants to keep the economy humming.

February 16, 2023
President Joe Biden walks with U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. For the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported it stopped migrants at the U.S. border nearly 2.4 million times, a record surge driven by sharp increases in Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans making the trek. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Texas asks court to halt Joe Biden’s border ‘parole’ plan

Texas asked a federal judge Wednesday to issue an injunction halting President Biden's new program offering to admit up to 30,000 migrants a month under a new "parole" policy, saying the administration invented a new immigration procedure without permission from Congress.

February 15, 2023
A family of asylum seekers from Columbia crosses the border at Roxham Road into Canada on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in Champlain, N.Y. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP)

Illegal crossings at northern border ‘historic’

Temperatures may have dipped to below zero along the U.S.-Canada border last month, but the pace of illegal immigration was overheated as people poured across the less-protected boundary.

February 13, 2023
President Joe Biden walks with U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. For the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported it stopped migrants at the U.S. border nearly 2.4 million times, a record surge driven by sharp increases in Venezuelans, Cubans and Nicaraguans making the trek. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Border numbers plummet as Biden’s new strategy kicks in

Homeland Security Department officials took a victory lap Friday after seeing illegal border crossings plummet in January, saying a new program to convert crossings into legal arrivals appears to be working.

February 10, 2023