Mexico migrant caravan
pushes past police
as group heads north
A caravan of migrants pushed past Mexican security forces near the city of Tapachula in Southern Chiapas state on Saturday, as the group continued its route north toward the country’s capital. The group of several thousand people, including women and children, pushed past national guard clad in riot gear that had attempted to block the group’s passage, footage from local news outlets showed. U.S. officials encountered more than 1.7 million migrants crossing the border with Mexico over the past year, a record number that likely includes people making repeat attempts to cross the border.
Biden delays release
of remaining JFK
assassination records,
citing pandemic
The pandemic has created backlogs for multiple federal agencies, and Friday the White House announced another administrative casualty: a delay in the release of records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. A White House statement did not make clear how the coronavirus had delayed the release but said that the national archivist had reported that the pandemic had had a “significant impact on the agencies” that need to be consulted on redactions. President Joe Biden said he agreed with the archivist’s recommendation that records be withheld from public disclosure until December 2022.
Blackfeet Nation says
farewell to its leader
Throughout his life, Chief Earl Old Person of the Blackfeet Nation could be found in the Browning High School gym in Montana, cheering for his alma mater. But for his final trip into the gym, he was not in the stands. Instead, his coffin was placed on the court as mourners came to say goodbye. Chief Old Person, the longest-serving tribally elected official in the United States, died Oct. 13 at 92 of cancer. On Tuesday, the chief returned to the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana from a funeral home 160 miles south. During the funeral Friday, the gym filled with hundreds of people paying their respects.
Nevada man charged with
voting using dead wife’s ballot
In November, Donald Kirk Hartle described being “surprised” by the possibility that someone had stolen his dead wife’s mail-in ballot and used it to vote in the 2020 election. This week, the Nevada attorney general filed two charges of voter fraud against Hartle, 55, claiming he forged his wife’s signature to vote with her ballot. Hartle, a registered Republican, was charged with voting using the name of another person and voting more than once in the same election. Each charge carries a prison sentence of up to four years and a fine of up to $5,000, prosecutors said.
After California
wildfire, thousands
of trees to be removed
In the wake of California wildfires, upward of 10,000 trees weakened by fires, drought, disease or age must be removed, work that will keep a nearby highway closed to visitors who seek the world’s two largest sequoia trees. The hazard trees could potentially fall onto people and cars on the section of State Route 180 known as Generals Highway, or they could create barriers for emergency and fire response, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks said Friday. The KNP Complex has been burning since Sept. 9, when lightning ignited two fires that later merged.
By wire sources
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