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GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge in Seattle says his order blocking President Donald Trump's original travel ban will not apply to the revised executive order. Judge James Robart entered his ruling Thursday, one day after a federal judge in Hawaii blocked Trump's new executive order that would've suspended new visas for people from six predominantly Muslim countries and halted the U.S. refugee program. On Thursday, a federal judge in Maryland blocked the revised ban.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has signed an agreement with a private organization to provide thousands of jobs for Mexican citizens who had been living illegally in the United States and were deported. Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong says 22 associations will work to offer as many as 50,000 jobs. The initiative aims to take advantage of the skills and knowledge of deportees.
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — A video that has just surfaced shows police in California fatally shooting a man after forcing him from his vehicle using blasts from a fire hose. The 39-second video shows Michael Perez climbing out of the driver's side window of a minivan after police in the city of Orange broke windows and used the hose to end a standoff late Sunday. Police had pulled him over for a broken headlight and grew concerned after he locked himself in the vehicle with a gas can and lighter.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for drugging and kidnapping a California woman in a crime so bizarre that police first thought it was a hoax. Police say two years ago, Matthew Muller drugged the woman and her boyfriend in their Vallejo home. He then dragged the woman to his car and put her in his trunk. Denise Huskins says she was tortured physically and psychologically for two days.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities are praising the actions of a fast-thinking paramedic who dove into a frigid Illinois lake and saved an infant from a submerged SUV. The sheriff in Madison County says a motorist called 911 Thursday morning to report a car heading down a hill toward Silver Lake in Highland, Illinois. Paramedic Todd Zobrist arrived on the scene and swam toward the SUV, where he found the baby floating inside. Authorities later recovered two bodies in related incidents. One was recovered from the lake and the other after a house fire.
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