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U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement told a German Christian family that was persecuted for homeschooling their children that they needed to prepare to be deported after living in the U.S. for 15 years, says Kevin Boden, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled with their family from Germany in 2008 after getting thousands of dollars in fines for refusing to stop homeschooling, which was outlawed in 1918, and sought asylum in the U.S. before being granted “indefinite deferred action status” in 2014, allowing them to...

internal-combustion engine, any of a group of devices in which the reactants of combustion (oxidizer and fuel) and the products of combustion serve as the working fluids of the engine. Such an engine gains its energy from heat released during the combustion of the nonreacted working fluids, the oxidizer-fuel mixture. This process occurs within the engine and is part of the thermodynamic cycle of the device. Useful work generated by an internal-combustion (IC) engine results from the hot gaseous products of combustion acting on moving surfaces of the engine, such as the face of a piston, a turbine blade, or...

The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once seemed resistant to global warming. "It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," says Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center. An unstable Antarctica could have far-reaching consequences, polar experts warn. Antarctica's huge ice expanse regulates the planet's temperature, as the white surface reflects the Sun's energy back into the atmosphere and also cools the water beneath and near

Danelo Cavalcante, 34, stabbed his former girlfriend of two years dozens of times in front of her two young children in 2021. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for the death of Deborah Brandao, 33, only to escape Chester County Prison at the end of August. As hundreds of law enforcement officers search for Cavalcante, who has been on the lam for close to two weeks, some residents have asked why he remained in the United States to begin with. Cavalcante is an undocumented immigrant who entered the country illegally. He fled to the...

President Biden says he wants simple, status-quo legislation to prevent a government shutdown, but hidden in the fine print of his actual funding request is one of the most radical, anti-policing, pro-criminal proposals of his Presidency. The Biden White House is trying to exploit the fog of a ginned-up government-shutdown crisis to strike a final, fatal blow against immigration law enforcement—by slipping in a loophole that would allow the White House to effectively abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by defunding it. Last week, President Biden called on Congress to pass a short-term spending bill to keep the government open...

Losses are going up on Ford’s electric vehicle business, but profit from its traditional internal combustion engine vehicles allowed it to beat Wall Street expectations. [Snip] The company was able to beat the estimates despite the fact that its losses before interest and taxes (EBIT) grew to $1.1 billion from its EV business, which the company calls its Model e division, up from the $722 million EBIT losses in the first quarter. And those losses are going to rise, at least in the short term. Ford said it expects a Model e EBIT loss of $4.5 billion for the full...

Cars costing under $30,000 make up just 8 percent of the market - down from 38 percent before the pandemic. According to data from car shopping app CoPilot, cited by CNBC, expensive SUVs and trucks are in high demand, prompting carmakers to continue to upgrade their lineups and scale back on more affordable models. Not only are new vehicle prices near an all-time high, but the interest rate to finance a purchase is also soaring. 'It’s the least affordable car market in modern history,' CoPilot CEO Pat Ryan told the outlet. The average cost of a new car in May,...

According to the International Energy Agency, the transportation sector is more reliant on fossil fuels than any other sector in the economy. In 2021, it accounted for 37% of all CO2 emissions from end‐use sectors.To gain insights into how different vehicle types contribute to these emissions, the above graphic visualizes the life cycle emissions of battery electric, hybrid, and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles using Polestar and Rivian’s Pathway Report.Production to Disposal: Emissions at Each StageLife cycle emissions are the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted throughout a product’s existence, including its production, use, and disposal.To compare these emissions effectively,...

The window has closed to prevent the melting of summer Arctic Sea ice due to human-caused climate change, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. The research indicates that even under a scenario where carbon emissions are sharply curtailed, the Arctic will be “practically” ice-free in September by the middle of the 21st century. The study’s projection goes even further than the warning issued in 2021 by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which determined there is still a chance to save the summer ice in a scenario where warming is kept below...

A leaked memo exposes the federal government’s plan to end familial DNA testing at the United States’ southern border, a policy implemented to deter child trafficking. In 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using DNA testing to determine whether or not familial claims made by immigrants were accurate or fraudulent. Not every family unit — loosely defined as a parent with a child — was tested. When Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents suspected that adults claiming to be the parents of young children were fraudulent, agents would refer the family to ICE for testing to confirm that...

The former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under the Trump administration says the Biden administration’s border policies are creating a national security threat that are “almost treasonous.” Tom Homan made the claim as U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operation agents have so far apprehended 332 known or suspected terrorists this fiscal year to date. This includes 125 caught at the southern border and 207 at the northern border. It's the unknown that keeps Homan and others in law enforcement up at night, he said. At a recent town hall event in El Paso organized by...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been releasing illegal immigrants, including those with criminal records, from custody to clear space for the looming surge of more migrants at the border, in the latest sign of the government’s scramble to prepare for the onslaught. ICE cut its detention population to fewer than 23,000 at the start of the month, down from more than 28,000 six weeks earlier. That includes hundreds of people with criminal records whom ICE has released. Acting ICE Director Tae Johnson told Congress last month that he wanted to cut the population to as few as 21,000 people to...

Toyota and other Japanese car makers are trying to extend hybrids to delay electrification of transport in Indonesia. Toyota still talks “customer choice” while not offering fully electric vehicles. Changing emissions regulations in China, the US, Europe and soon Australia mean massive increases in BEV adoption. This is a threat that Toyota fails to acknowledge. Toyota’s claim to be clean energy focused is increasingly being challenged. It's getting too late for Toyota to enter the BEV transformation race. Investors might re-think what this means. It's interesting to think about how one engages with an automotive manufacturer. When I think of...

In separate pleadings, Black Knight and Intercontinental Exchange asked a federal court judge to declare the Federal Trade Commission's structure unconstitutional. The filings, both made on April 25, were in response to the FTC seeking an injunction against their merger in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Now, both Black Knight and Intercontinental Exchange, are seeking their own injunctive relief against the FTC. These latest pleadings make similar separation of power arguments that were included in their responses made on March 20 to the FTC's filing for an administrative hearing to quash the...

The climber, identified by friends as Meg O’Neill, had been attempting to scale the frozen Raven Falls when a massive ice column split and fell in Indian Canyon Sunday, the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office, O’Neill managed to push a 21-year-old woman out of the way of falling ice, which officials wrote “probably saved her life.” But O’Neill wound up crushed beneath “two huge blocks of ice,” resulting in her death. A 34-year-old man who accompanied the two female climbers was severely injured after falling 40 feet.

The European Union and Germany have reached an agreement that will allow combustion engines to continue to be used in new cars after 2035, but only with synthetic fuels, the 'e-fuels'. The agreement reached will allow the countries of the European Union to approve the Euro 7 standard, presented by Brussels, which aims to accelerate the fight against climate change in Europe, with a drastic reduction in all harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Once the new standard is approved, the European Commission will present a regulation that will allow companies in the automotive sector to continue to produce cars with...

A rare ice sheet has formed on Emerald Bay, California, on Lake Tahoe, the first time it has been seen in over 30 years — and a sign of the cold weather in the Sierra Nevada in a season normally linked to the spring thaw. For the first time since the early 1990s, Lake Tahoe’s Emerald Bay has completely frozen over. https://t.co/6E8nU3FTYJ — SFGATE (@SFGate) March 10, 2023 The New York Times reported: In March, the birds usually begin appearing in Emerald Bay, Calif., as the days get longer and the temperature creeps up, melting the snow that feeds the...

Give me your tired, your poor, your smuggled masses. New York City’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is “fully booked through October 2032” for appointments to process migrants released at the southern border, according to an official document exclusively reviewed by The Post — making the Big Apple the ideal destination for migrants with dubious asylum claims and causing a massive headache to those with valid ones. The backlog means that migrants may have to wait almost a decade just to enter the immigration court process — which is beset by further delays stretching out years, sources said. “If...

Ice warnings for the whole of Ireland have been issued for tonight through to tomorrow morning by Met Éireann and the UK Met Office. Met Éireann issued a Status Yellow ice warning for Ireland until 10am tomorrow and the UK Met Office have a Yellow Snow and Ice Warning in place from 9pm to 10am tomorrow for all of Northern Ireland. Met Éireann warned of hazardous conditions, including icy stretches on roads and paths, due to the freezing temperatures. For Northern Ireland, snow showers and icy patches will likely cause some travel disruption. The outlook is for very cold weather...

The New York Times published a blockbuster report on Saturday that details massive nationwide child labor horrors taking place because of Joe Biden opening the border to unaccompanied children in 2021 after President Trump fought hard to shut down child trafficking. The children are working to pay off their debts to cartel traffickers and their sponsors here, as well as to send remittances to their families back home. The Times found children working in factories and plants of major American companies and their suppliers across the country. “Migrant child labor benefits both under-the-table operations and global corporations, the Times found....