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Finally Reunited With Her Child, Migrant Mother Has A Warning For Caravan

6:08pm November 15, 2018

by John Burnett

Migrant families arriving at the Southwest border earlier this year faced forced separations. Now the president plans to stop immigrants with troops, concertina wire, tighter asylum rules and threats of tent prisons.

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How Santa Rosa, Calif., Is Rebuilding A Year After The Destructive Tubbs Fire

6:08pm November 15, 2018

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with David Guhin, assistant city manager for Santa Rosa, Calif., about how the city is rebuilding after the 2017 Tubbs Fire, which destroyed 5,636 buildings.

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Housing Crisis Concerns Grow As Camp Fire Continues To Burn

6:08pm November 15, 2018

by Eric Westervelt

Butte County is among the poorest in California. Residents whose homes were destroyed are now in a tough spot as the county doesn't have enough existing housing for the thousands who are displaced.

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A search and rescue worker, looking for Camp Fire victims, carries Susie Q. to safety after the cadaver dog fell through rubble at the Holly Hills Mobile Estates on Wednesday in Paradise, Calif.

Camp Fire Missing-Persons List Grows To More Than 300 Names

6:08pm November 15, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

At least 56 people have died in the Northern California blaze, which has destroyed entire neighborhoods and continues to burn. Meanwhile, Butte County says about 300 people are missing.

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A appellate court found Suffolk County Police went too far by putting Susai Francis, an Indian national living on Long Island, back in jail at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Local Police Can't Detain Immigrants For ICE, NY Court Finds

5:45pm November 15, 2018

by Beth Fertig

An appellate court in Brooklyn ruled that local police officers in New York state can't detain immigrants solely to turn them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a judicial warrant.

Former Florida Secretary Of State Weighs In On Election Recounts

5:37pm November 15, 2018

Florida counties face a deadline for machine recounts. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris about the similarly contentious 2000 presidential election.

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People listen to speakers raising awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women at a rally at Cal Anderson Park in Seattle prior to the Women's March on January 20. A new report examines missing and murdered Indigenous women in cities, not on rese

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Police In Many U.S. Cities Fail To Track Murdered, Missing Indigenous Women

5:29pm November 15, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Seattle-based researchers examined the disappearances and murders of Native American women in 71 U.S. cities. They found information on 506 documented cases — and huge, troubling gaps in the data.

Why Florida's Broward County Always Seems Mired In Scandal

5:26pm November 15, 2018

Amid a Florida recount centered in suburban Miami, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Politico reporter Michael Grunwald about his reporting on Broward County, Fla.

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(From left) Daniela Lebron, 18; Jennifer Lopez, 17; Klea Kalia, 21; and Yasmin Butt, 21, attend an event at Barnard College in New York City for Latino, first-generation and low-income students interested in studying abroad.

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Generation Z Is The Most Racially And Ethnically Diverse Yet

4:58pm November 15, 2018

by Hansi Lo Wang

The Pew Research Center analyzed post-millennials who are currently between the ages of 6 and 21 and found nearly half — 48 percent — are from communities of color.

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Democrat Jared Golden greets supporters as they wait on Election Day in Lewiston, Maine. Golden was declared the winner on Thursday as a result of the state's new ranked-choice voting system.

Ranked-Choice Voting Delivers Democrats A House Seat

3:45pm November 15, 2018

Democrats have now gained 35 seats and could get up to 39 as counting continues in close races around the country. There will be no Republicans from New England in the U.S. House next year.