Free for All Friday opens up the phone lines to listeners, and Jonathon Dunne joins to talk about legal immigration to the U.S. and it's difficulty now.
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1 President Trump unveiled his proposal in a Rose Garden news conference yesterday, saying he wants to recruit the "most brilliant" people to live in the US through a system that rewards talent and brains. The President suggested the plan could get passed after the 2020 election if necessary because the House could flip back to the GOP.
2 Police arrested and charged three people in a ghastly killing of a pregnant teen in Chicago. Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, 19, disappeared late last month after she went to receive an offer of free baby clothes from a woman she had communicated with online. Ochoa-Lopez's body was found Tuesday in a garbage can in the backyard of the woman who had offered the clothes. She had been strangled and her unborn baby forcibly removed from her womb, police said. The baby is in grave condition at a hospital. Two people, including the woman who police say lured the teen to the home, were charged with murder, while a third person was charged with concealment of a crime
3 The Grand Rapids Police Department Internal Affairs Unit found no wrongdoing by the captain who called federal immigration officials to report a man who was actually an American citizen, leading to his wrongful detention. But now, that captain is again facing disciplinary action. On Wednesday, the Grand Rapids Police Civilian Appeal Board reversed the findings of a previous investigation decision by a 6-2 vote. It marked only the third time in the 23-year history of the board, which is charged with investigating citizens' complaints against police, that it has reversed an Internal Affairs conclusion
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Would you stay in a hotel run by Taco Bell? You might get your chance this summer in Palm Springs, California.
Students who come from tough backgrounds just might catch a break the next time they take the SAT. The College Board, the nonprofit group that runs the standardized test, said it will start assigning a score to students who take the SAT to reflect their social and economic backgrounds.The Environmental Context Dashboard would factor in things such as crime and poverty in a student's neighborhood to capture their "resourcefulness to overcome challenges and achieve more with less." This dashboard score will not include a student's race. College admissions are under heightened scrutiny after indictments were handed down against wealthy and powerful parents who allegedly paid their kids' ways into elite universities.
'Game' over?
More than 300,000 "Game of Thrones" fans are so ticked off about the way this final season has played out, they'vesigned a petition demanding a remake.
Mother's Day millionaire
Her sister bought her a $1 lottery ticket as a Mother's Day gift. Turns out it's
the gift that keeps giving. That ticket was worth $1.3 million.
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