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A California Assembly committee approved of the Trust Act, which now goes to the California legislature. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images

Trust Act approved by California assembly committee

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The Public Safety Committee of the California State Assembly approved the TRUST Act, which limits the amount of time local authorities can hold people … Read More

Thousands of immigrants were released due to budget cuts last month.

Budget cuts border security, immigrant detention

By Cristina Silva, and Christopher Sherman, Associated Press

PHOENIX (AP) -- Marco Antonio Durazo had been awaiting deportation from an Arizona detention center for six months when an officer came to get him from his … Read More

In this photo taken with a cell phone early Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, and released by Brazil's General Superintendency of Prisons of Alagoas (SGAP), guards hold a cat that has items taped to its body at a medium-security prison in Arapiraca, in Alagoas state, Brazil. A prison official says they caught the cat slipping through a prison gate with a cell phone, drills, small saws and other contraband taped to its body. (AP Photo/SGAP)

Cat caught smuggling saws and drills into Brazil prison

By Associated Press

SAO PAULO  — Guards thought there was something suspicious about a little white cat slipping through a prison gate in northeastern Brazil. A prison … Read More