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By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — In the Lower West Side of Chicago, music blared and green, white and red flags fluttered down the streets of the predominantly Latino Pilsen neighborhood on Saturday as crowds gathered for the start of Mexican Independence Day celebrations. Costumed performers and children with baskets of treats paraded through the

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN Hi readers! Just as fall turns over a new leaf, I’m returning from a beautiful season of maternity leave with a fresh perspective. Becoming a new mom has been enlightening, occasionally chaotic, but always rewarding. I feel extra grateful nowadays for family, sleep, coffee — and all of you.. Here’s

By Hanna Park, Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — South Korean workers detained during a massive immigration raid in Georgia Thursday will be returned to South Korea on a chartered flight following negotiations, an official announced Sunday. “Negotiations for the release of the detained workers have been concluded, after swift responses by the relevant ministries, business

By Lauren del Valle, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — A day before Donna Adelson was convicted of first-degree murder for orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to kill her former son-in-law, the 75-year-old woman agonized over whether to testify in her defense in a Tallahassee, Florida, courtroom. Adelson, convicted Thursday after not taking the stand, was initially

By Alaa Elassar, Isabel Rosales, Caroll Alvarado, CNN A sprawling Hyundai manufacturing plant in a quiet southeast Georgia community became ground zero on Thursday for one of the most extensive immigration raids in recent US history. The operation, months in the making, ended with 475 arrests, most of them Korean nationals. As state troopers blocked

By Isabel Rosales, Shawn Nottingham, Emma Tucker, CNN (CNN) — Florida has opened its second immigration detention site, dubbed “Deportation Depot,” amid an ongoing legal battle over its controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” facility. The facility is at a temporarily closed state prison, the Baker Correctional Institution, which is housing 117 detainees with the capacity to hold

CNN By Alaa Elassar, Isabel Rosales, Caroll Alvarado, CNN A sprawling Hyundai manufacturing plant in a quiet southeast Georgia community became ground zero on Thursday for one of the most extensive immigration raids in recent US history. The operation, months in the making, ended with 475 arrests, most of them Korean nationals. As state troopers

By Meg Dunn, CNN Gallatin, Tennessee (CNN) — More than 250,000 animals are hoarded in residences across the United States each year, according to the Animal Humane Society, and they are often left to suffer in horrific conditions. Hundreds are sometimes crammed into small spaces, living in their own waste. Tim Woodward couldn’t let these

CNN By Meg Dunn, CNN Gallatin, Tennessee (CNN) — More than 250,000 animals are hoarded in residences across the United States each year, according to the Animal Humane Society, and they are often left to suffer in horrific conditions. Hundreds are sometimes crammed into small spaces, living in their own waste. Tim Woodward couldn’t let

By Chris Boyette, Emma Tucker, Karina Tsui, Diego Mendoza, Holly Yan, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of federal officers descended on a small southeast Georgia community and raided the Hyundai Metaplant – arresting 475 people in the largest sweep yet in the current Trump administration’s immigration crackdown at US worksites. The majority of those

By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Courageous and plucky with “absolutely killer style,” 8-year-old Cile Steward was a force of nature, her family says. It’s been two months since an entire summer’s worth of rain fell on July 4, triggering the flash floods that rushed through Texas Hill Country and converged around Camp Mystic, killing

By Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a judge’s order requiring Florida and the federal government to shut down and dismantle a controversial immigration detention facility built in the Everglades, widely referred to as “Alligator Alcatraz.” On Thursday, the Eleventh US Circuit Court of Appeals granted requests from the