Texas shelters housing migrant children to operate without state oversight
CBSN
Nearly 40 Texas-based shelters housing migrant children in federal care are slated to operate without state oversight in September in response to an order by Governor Greg Abbott, which will put them at risk of violating legal requirements designed to protect minors in U.S. custody.
In late May, Abbott, a Republican, instructed Texas officials to stop licensing shelters for migrant children without legal status, a move interpreted by the Biden administration as an attempt to force the federal government to stop housing these minors in the state. Texas directed shelter officials to "wind down operations" by August 30. In response, the Biden administration threatened to sue, calling Abbott's order a "direct attack" on the Health and Human Services Department shelter system, which houses unaccompanied children encountered along the U.S.-Mexico border.President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.