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New federal rules on enforcement of US immigration laws draw mixed reaction locally

New federal rules on enforcement of U.S. immigration laws issued Tuesday echoed across the Las Vegas Valley, with undocumented immigrants and their advocates expressing fears of widespread roundups and supporters of President Donald Trump’s applauding his get-tough policy.

 
No injuries amid reports of shots fired at Houston hospital

No one was found injured and there was no evidence that a shooting happened amid reports of gunfire Tuesday inside a hospital at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said.

 
Scores of headstones vandalized at Jewish cemetery

As cemetery groundskeepers received an “outpouring of support from across the United States” with people volunteering to help with repairs, a new wave of bomb threats were directed against Jewish Community Centers in multiple states.

3 Washington memorials vandalized over holiday weekend

Three of Washington’s best-known monuments were defaced with graffiti over the Presidents Day weekend, the third major vandalism of memorials in the U.S. capital since 2013, a National Park Service spokesman said Tuesday.

Bao Bao the panda bound for China

The National Zoo in Washington is saying a final goodbye to its panda cub Bao Bao. The zoo is packing up the American-born panda for a one-way flight Tuesday to China.

Riots erupt in Sweden’s capital just days after Trump comments

Just two days after President Donald Trump provoked widespread consternation by seeming to imply, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a recent spate of violence in Sweden, riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in the northern suburbs of Sweden’s capital, Stockholm.

Bodies of 74 migrants wash ashore in Libya

Scores of bodies of African migrants washed ashore in Libya, in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea, a spokesman for the Libyan Red Crescent said on Tuesday.