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A federal judge awarded $1.17 million to nearly 100 people targeted by the Trump administration in 2018.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents look into the window of an apartment while executing search warrants on March 3, 2015, in Rowland Heights, California.Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Immigrant rights groups celebrated a historic victory late Monday as a federal judge handed down what is believed to be the first-ever class action settlement over a workplace immigration raid in the United States, awarding $1.17 million to nearly 100 people who were targeted by the Trump administration in 2018.

in brief Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's director Jen Easterly has been outspoken in her drive to bring more women into the security industry, and this year for International Women's Day her agency formalized that pledge by announcing a partnership with nonprofit Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS).

Two disturbing incidents roiled the cyber seas last week, one foreign and one domestic.They both strengthen the case which was already convincing, and which I have been making for almost a decade now for the creation of a U.S. Cyber Force.The first incident was yet another cyberattack on a NATO member, Albania, by Iran.

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

President Biden on Thursday authorized sending 1,500 active duty soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border for 90 days to aid U.S. Customs and Border Protection efforts to combat international drug trafficking.About 2,500 National Guard members on active duty orders are already stationed at all nine sectors of the southwest border doing detention and monitoring work with CBP, a U.S. official said Monday.

Smoke inhalation is the No. 1 cause of death in residential fires.Having a working smoke alarm reduces the chance of getting killed in a fire by more than half, according to the National Fire Protection Association.In 2010, the Chicago Fire Department was awarded a Fire Prevention and Safety grant by the Department of Homeland Security for which it received 16,000 long-life, 10-year lithium-powered smoke alarms with additional funding for 6-foot step ladders and cordless drills.

Republicans have pitched ideas like reviving the border wall and cracking down on asylum seekers, policies that stand no chance in the Senate but would let them claim a messaging victory - if they can manage to push them through the House.Underscoring how quickly one of Republicans' biggest election talking points turned into a sore spot for old tensions, even those at the center of the intra-party debate aren't willing to publicly bet against another derailment ... at least, not yet.

(Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press)

The United States will establish regional processing centers for migrants in Colombia and Guatemala in an effort to reduce arrivals at the southern border after a pandemic-era policy ends next month, senior Biden administration officials announced Thursday.

Children's flu medication was hard to come by in December 2022 as a wave of respiratory viruses spread across the country.Mario Tama/Getty Images It's not just your imagination: Drugs such as children's flu medication, common antibiotics and ADHD treatments are getting harder to buy, according to a Senate report published Wednesday.

(CNN)Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is the "designated survivor" during President Joe Biden's second State of the Union address on Tuesday night.The selection comes the same day CNN reported that Walsh is expected to depart the Biden administration soon -- marking the first Cabinet secretary departure of Biden's presidency.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas pointed the finger back at Congress to fix the country's broken immigration system and maintained that he will not resign from his post in an new interview with CNN's Chris Wallace.House Republicans, who have been fierce critics of President Joe Biden's immigration policies, have been moving to build a case against Mayorkas as they consider launching rare impeachment proceedings against a Cabinet secretary.

The Biden administration released a new rule Tuesday that largely bars migrants who traveled through other countries on their way to the US-Mexico border from applying for asylum in the United States, marking a departure from decadeslong protocol.The new 153-page proposed regulation, which could affect tens of thousands of people, is the most restrictive of a patchwork of policies put in place by the Biden administration to try and manage the US-Mexico border and is reminiscent of a Trump-era policy.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanked President Joe Biden for not building one meter of border wall at a joint press conference in Mexico City on Tuesday.Lopez Obrador was apparently unaware much work has been done on the border wall under Biden's administration.You, president Biden, you are the first president of the United States in a very long time that has not built, not even one meter of wall, Lopez Obrador said.

Hackers working on behalf of the North Korean government have pulled off a massive supply chain attack on Windows and macOS users of 3CX, a widely used voice and video calling desktop client, researchers from multiple security firms said.The attack compromised the software build system used to create and distribute both Windows and macOS versions of the app, which provides both VoIP and PBX services to " 600,000+ customers," including American Express, Mercedes-Benz, and Price Waterhouse Cooper.

More than two years after an alleged Russian hacking campaign exposed glaring weakness in US federal defenses, the Department of Homeland Security's cyber agency has not updated a key agency blueprint for maintaining communications in the event of a major hack, the department's inspector general said Monday.

Late last year, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Dustin Dyer's lawsuit against Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers who ordered him to stop recording their pat-down search of his husband.The officers also ordered him to delete what he had already recorded.But the court, using a flawed legal doctrine that limits civil rights lawsuits, ruled that Dyer could not sue the officers for money damages even if they violated his First Amendment right to record on-duty government officials.

WASHINGTON The Biden administration said on Monday that thousands of Ukrainians who fled to the United States in the first months after Russia invaded their country would be eligible to extend their stay, as the war in Ukraine continues into a second year.About 25,000 Ukrainians and their family members who came into the country through Mexico at a U.S. port of entry between Feb. 24 and April 25 last year were allowed to stay for a year.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Law enforcement agencies continued to investigate after they said a threat was made on a United Airlines flight Sunday night bound for Burlington, Vermont.Police said the threat was made on United Airlines flight 3613, which took off from Newark, New Jersey, at 3:14 p.m.
MyNBC5 reported officials said about 20 minutes before landing at Burlington International Airport, the pilot was made aware of a threat found inside of a bathroom on the plane.

"I'm asking my colleagues to update our 'Due Process for All' ordinance to add fentanyl dealing felonies alongside violent felonies," Dorsey told KQED."The whole idea of sanctuary was to create a safe environment so that local governments could serve immigrant communities, including undocumented immigrant communities, and have their trust.

Russia-Ukraine Peter Reed did humanitarian work all over the globe.Over 200 people gathered on the Wrentham Common Wednesday to honor Peter Reed, a local 33-year-old former Marine who was killed while doing humanitarian work in Ukraine earlier this month.According to Reed's obituary, he served in Afghanistan before doing humanitarian work around the globe.

At first, Brandon Tsay froze when a gunman aimed a firearm at him, he said.He was sure those would be his last moments.But then something came over Tsay, who was working the ticket counter in the lobby of his family's Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio, a dance hall in Alhambra, California.He lunged toward the armed man and struggled through being hit several times in order to wrestle the gun away, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday evening.

Key congressional Democrats have asked the former federal judge who reviewed the Supreme Court's investigation into the leak of a draft abortion opinion to provide them with more information about his involvement following a CNN exclusive report that revealed he had longstanding financial ties with the court.

Photo by Gabriel C. Pérez/ KUT
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 by Laura Morales, KUT
Austin's utility companies and Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management will distribute free winter-weather supply kits this week at customer service centers.The kits include water meter keys, styrofoam hose covers, hand-crank flashlights, first-aid supplies and winter weather tip sheets.