Stephen Miller Jousts With Reporters Over Immigration

Exchanges between the senior White House adviser and Glenn Thrush of The New York Times and Jim Acosta of CNN became combative at a news briefing on Wednesday.

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Is Convicted of Criminal Contempt

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA July 31, 2017 Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio committed a crime by defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants, a judge ruled on Monday, in the latest rebuke for a once-popular politician who was...

Prosecutors’ Dilemma: Will Conviction Lead to ‘Life Sentence of Deportation’?

By VIVIAN YEE July 31, 2017 The drunken-driving case seemed straightforward, the kind that prosecutors in Seattle convert into a quick guilty plea hundreds of times a year: a swerving car, a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal limit, a first-time...

Truck Driver Is Charged in Deaths of 10 Migrants in Texas

By DAVID MONTGOMERY and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA July 24, 2017 SAN ANTONIO — A truck driver faces the possibility of the death penalty or life in prison under a federal criminal complaint filed against him Monday in the deaths of 10...

At Least 8 People Found Dead in Truck at Walmart Parking Lot in San Antonio

By YONETTE JOSEPH July 23, 2017 The San Antonio authorities discovered at least eight bodies in an overheated tractor-trailer in a Walmart parking lot on Sunday morning, in what the police chief called a “horrific” human trafficking crime. The...