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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is accusing former President Barack Obama of having Trump's telephones "wire tapped" during last year's election. He tweets that that he "just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower." Trump isn't offering any evidence or saying what prompted the allegation. An Obama spokesman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump's plans to step up enforcement of immigration laws could funnel even more people into an immigration court system that already has a record number of cases, a shortage of judges and frequent bureaucratic breakdowns. The administration has focused on hiring agents to find and detain people in the country illegally, but it has been largely silent on immigration courts. The system has 58 courts in 27 states and more than half a million unresolved cases.
MIAMI (AP) — Mexico doesn't plan to spend any money on the border wall but it is about to pump about $50 million into a plan to beef up its legal aid to migrants who fear deportation. All 50 Mexican consulates in the U.S. launched legal assistance centers yesterday to form partnerships with nonprofit groups and lawyers to help those fearing President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A confidential report says North Korean weapons barred by United Nations sanctions ended up in the hands of U.N. peacekeepers in Africa. The annual report by a U.N. panel of experts, obtained by The Associated Press, illustrates how North Korea evades sanctions imposed for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Among the report's findings was the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions" against North Korea. Africa has the world's lowest rate of reporting on monitoring U.N. sanctions on North Korea.
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — U.S. and Canadian scientists are planning to spend the next five years studying flooding on Lake Champlain and the Richelieu River, which drains the lake north into Quebec. Besides studying the causes of past floods, particularly the historic floods in 2011, the scientists will look for ways to better forecast flooding and measures to reduce the effects of future floods, considered likely with weather extremes in an era of climate change.
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