U.S. ENDING TEMPORARY PERMITS FOR 60K HAITIANS
The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean nation.
The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the benefit will be extended one last time — until July 2019 — to give Haitians time to prepare to return home.
Former officer gets prison in death of daughter’s boyfriend.
OKLA.» A TULSA, white ex-Oklahoma police officer was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for the fatal off-duty shooting of his daughter’s black boyfriend, after four trials spanning nearly a year, including three that resulted in hung juries.
Former Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler was convicted last month of firstdegree manslaughter in the 2014 slaying of 19-yearold Jeremey Lake. Tulsa County District Court Judge Sharon Holmes also imposed a $10,000 fine.
Germany faces uncertainty after coalition talks break down.
Germany, Europe’s largest economy and anchor of stability, is facing the prospect of months of political uncertainty after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives were unable to form a coalition with two smaller parties, raising the likelihood of new elections. Merkel said Monday that she was “very skeptical” about trying to forge ahead with a minority government — a setup that has never been tried in post-World War II Germany — after talks with the left-leaning Greens and pro-business Free Democrats broke down hours earlier.
Argentina’s navy says sounds didn’t come from missing sub.
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Sounds detected by probes deep in the South Atlantic on Monday did not come from an Argentine submarine that has been lost for five days, the country’s navy said Monday, dashing newfound hope among relatives of the 44 sailors aboard. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters that the “noise” was analyzed and experts determined it was likely “biological.”
City passes 600 homicides for only third time since 2003.
CHICAGO» Chicago has surpassed 600 homicides for the second year in a row and for only the third time since 2003, according to data kept by the Chicago Tribune. As of early Monday, the city has recorded at least 609 homicides.
That trails the 711 homicides this time last year but far exceeds previous years. In 2015, the city had recorded 443 homicides by the weekend of Nov. 22. In 2014, it was 400.
Bill to make medical marijuana available in Malta proposed.
The government has proposed allowing all doctors in the country to prescribe medical marijuana.
The government published draft legislation on Monday that would loosen an existing regulation with so many restrictions that not a single Maltese had ever been treated legally with marijuana or a cannabis based product.