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EL PASO, TX - More than 85 percent of migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border are released into the U.S. interior, a report from the House Homeland Security Committee details. At the same time, the report accuses President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of seeking to slash federal detention space.

The report — which breaks down how Biden and Harris have welcomed nearly eight million migrants to the U.S. since early 2021 — suggests that while Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has mass released migrants into American communities, the agency has simultaneously cut detention space.

In particular, the report finds that just 36 percent of migrants in Fiscal Year 2021 were detained by DHS for at least some period of time while their cases were adjudicated. Compare this to Fiscal Year 2013, under former President Barack Obama, when 91 percent of migrants were detained for at least some period of time during their case adjudications. Click here to read more.

 

LANSING, Mich - Michigan’s Senate voted to pass four election-related bills that aim to counter voter discrimination on the basis of race, ability or language – protections already provided by the 15th amendment that the legislation is meant to bolster.

The package of bills would supply legal pathways and resources for citizens to sue local governments for 15th Amendment violations, create an electronic voting database, and require all polling places to provide language assistance to non-English speakers, among other things.

“Every Michigan voter deserves access to fair, secure elections and no citizen should be unfairly denied the right to vote,” Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in response to the bills’ passage. “The Michigan Voting Rights Act will not only build on the federal Voting Rights Act but will add new protections at the state level to shield us from future attacks on our democracy.” Click here to ead more.

 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd said the federal government has not been cooperating with the state’s attempts to identify and remove illegal aliens from its voter rolls.

Byrd’s worries come as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has been cracking down on election fraud and demanding information from the Biden administration on non-citizens who are registered to vote in Florida.

The secretary of state told the Washington Examiner that the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database remains outdated and slow.

“We have to have the alien registration number for it to give us a positive result, and many times, we get evidence of somebody being a noncitizen, but they don’t have the alien registration number, so even where we can use [the database], we can’t because states don’t always have that information,” Byrd said. Click here to read more.

 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff fed up with a spate of false school shooting threats is taking a new tactic to try get through to students and their parents: he’s posting the mugshot of any offender on social media.

Law enforcement officials in Florida and across the country have seen a wave of school shooting hoaxes recently, including in the wake of the deadly attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, that killed two students and two teachers.

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood on Florida’s Atlantic Coast said he’s tired of the hoaxes targeting students, disrupting schools and sapping law enforcement resources. In social media posts Monday, Chitwood warned parents that if their kids are arrested for making these threats, he’ll make sure the public knows. Click here to read more.

 

MOULTRIE, Ga. - A woman in Georgia is making a difference one box at a time.

For over a decade, Patricia Garlick has supported soldiers deployed overseas by sending them care packages.

From new socks to puzzles and even food items, Garlick packs all she can into her care packages.

“People don’t realize how much stuff you can fit in a box,” she said.

She calls them Pride Packages.

Garlick established her initiative in 2005 after her son was deployed to Iraq. She would send him care packages everyday.

However, when her son brought to her attention that some of the other soldiers were not getting anything sent to them from home, she knew she had to do something.

“I decided that I could do something for our troops that weren’t getting anything back home,” she said. Click here to read more.

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CHICAGO, IL - Losing muscle mass isn’t the only potential side effect of taking weight loss medications such as Ozempic: Brittle bones are another.

According to a study published in the journal JAMA Network, bones can become less dense with rapid weight loss, especially in people older than 65 and predisposed to osteoporosis.

The study followed 195 adults with obesity for one year after an initial eight-week low-calorie diet.

Orthopedic surgeon Rick Lehman at the US Center for Sports Medicine told NewsNation local affiliate KTVI that while these medications are popular for weight loss, they often reduce muscle mass rather than just fat, potentially increasing the percentage of body fat despite a lower overall weight.

This could lead to a paradox where individuals are thinner but have a higher body fat percentage.

Bone loss is a common concern during weight loss, potentially increasing the risk of fractures. The study measured bone mineral density at the hip, spine and forearm — key areas for assessing fracture risk. Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - A clip of Vice President Kamala Harris went viral this week that showed remarks she made as San Francisco’s district attorney in which she said that police had the right to “walk into” people’s homes and inspect their legally-owned firearms.

The Democrat presidential nominee made the remarks while speaking to reporters during a press conference in 2007 about a law that was being introduced that she helped write.

Harris said, “We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.” Click here to read more.

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ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A 53-year-old man is charged with trying to kidnap two children in Escambia County last Saturday.

George Carpentier Jr. is being held in Escambia County Jail on a $401,000 bond. He's charged with two counts of attempted kidnapping and one count of resisting arrest.

According to the report, the incident happened around 7 p.m. last Saturday near the intersection of Flaxman Street and N 57th Ave.

The report states a group of kids were playing near the front entrance of a trailer park when Carpentier rode up to them on a bike. Click here to read more.

 

BROOKS COUNTY, Ga. - Many residents moved to rural Brooks County in southern Georgia for peace, quiet and the red-dirt views of farmland.

But in the last several years, thousands of acres worth of solar farms have taken over peanut and cotton farms, meaning residents now live right next to industry.

Danny Sapp and Peg Howard said they have called Brooks County home for a long time and they said they’re concerned about the changes they’re seeing.

Howard said she wasn’t initially opposed to the solar farms, but after a second project totaling more than 1,700 acres moved in, she’s had enough.

She said solar panels in Brooks County stretch as far as the eye can see. Click here to read more.

 

The office of Ohio governor Mike DeWine is not disclosing which country is responsible for some of the bomb-threat hoaxes called into Springfield schools. The aim is to “discourage further threats to the schools and other buildings.”

This is more than a little frustrating because the general public already has a short suspect list. The FBI has already publicly discussed the desire of Russia, China, and Iran to influence the 2024 election and how “sowing discord and undermining democracy is consistent across the board.” Earlier this month, an official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters:

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Some viewers of ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir are apparently unhappy with how the presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris played out on the network.

During the event on September 10, Muir and co-moderator Linsey Davis fact-checked Trump several times, but they failed to pounce on Harris with corrections, Fox News reported on Tuesday.

Numerous conservatives have suggested that the debate was not fair, which has reportedly cost the network. The outlet continued:

Muir’s “World News Tonight” averaged 6.7 million viewers on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the three episodes following the debate, after averaging 7.6 million in 2024 leading up to the debate.

The 12% drop in viewers for “World News Tonight” is more significant than slight declines “CBS Evening News” and “NBC Nightly News” saw when comparing the three episodes following ABC’s debate to the year-to-date totals, although Muir’s newscast remained the No. 1 broadcast evening newscast.

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STARK COUNTY, Ohio (Gray News) - A 27-year-old woman was arrested by police in Ohio for allegedly killing a cat and eating the animal.

According to court records filed in Stark County, Allexis Telia Ferrell, of Canton, is charged with injuring animals, prohibitions concerning companion animals and disorderly conduct.

Investigators with the Canton Police Department said Ferrell killed the cat by stomping on its head. She then went on to eat the cat “in a residential area in front of multiple people” at a housing complex on 13th Street SE.

Ferrell was arrested on Aug. 16 at around 11 p.m.

The initial bond was set at $100,000 during Ferrell’s arraignment on Monday, according to court documents.

Ferrell is scheduled to return to court again on Aug. 26. Click here to read more.

 

McALLEN, Texas — Two U.S. Border Patrol sectors in South Texas had slight increases in migrant encounters in August from July, but still are way down from the huge numbers they’ve had in the past and at the end of 2023, according to new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

In August, Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector encountered 5,244 migrants, which was up 4% from 5,032 in July. That’s down 71% from 18,216 in December.

Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector encountered 7,666 migrants in August, which was up 6% from 7,236 in July, but still down 89% from 71,050 in December, CBP reports. Click here to read more.

 

PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. – A man from Honduras living in Arkansas illegally faces several charges including negligent homicide and driving under the influence in connection with a deadly crash in Pulaski County.

According to Arkansas State Police, 30-year-old Maynor Yair Sorto-Herrera was arrested on Sept. 9 in connection with a crash that killed 48-year-old Jennifer Ann Morton of Little Rock near Arch Street.

ASP officials said that Herrera was driving a truck south on Arch Street on the morning of Sept. 8 when his vehicle crossed into the northbound lane, striking Morton’s car.

Special agents said that Herrera was found walking away from the scene and taken to a local hospital for treatment for his injuries. He was later taken to the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility, ASP officials said. Click here to read more.

 

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood followed through on a promise to publicly release a mug shot and “perp walk” video of an 11-year-old student arrested for making a school shooting threat, First Coast News reported.

“Because you don’t want to raise your kid, so Sheriff Chitwood’s going to raise them,” the sheriff said.

The student, from a Port Orange middle school, was taken into custody after allegedly creating a written list of names and targets. Although the child claimed it was a joke, the sheriff’s office took the threat seriously, recovering airsoft rifles, pistols, fake ammunition, knives and swords that the student had shown off to others in a video, according to the report.

The sheriff’s office published a video showing the student being led in handcuffs from a patrol vehicle into the police station, where he was processed before being placed in a holding cell. Click here to read more.