Fear spreads in L.A. after immigration ‘raid,’ advocates claim. Officials say arrests are “routine.”; How all-caps came to signify shouting, as in Trump’s ‘SEE YOU IN COURT …’; Your weekend watch: ‘Call Me Lucky,’ a difficult profile of comedian and anti-child abuse crusader Barry Crimmins; For years, immigration authorities gave this Arizona mother a pass. Now she has been deported.; ‘The show must go on’: Five acrobats of famed Wallenda troupe injured falling 25 feet during pyramid stunt; Archaeologists say they have found a cave that once held Dead Sea Scrolls, a first in 60 years; The long struggle over what to call ‘undocumented immigrants’ or, as Trump said in his order, ‘illegal aliens’; Police knew about illegal housing, parties at Oakland warehouse before fire that killed 36, but took no action; The science of excruciating pain, as when parents step barefoot on a Lego brick;
 
Morning Mix
Stories from All Over
 
 
Spicer claims he ‘clearly meant Orlando’ after citing mystery Atlanta terrorist attack three times
The incident drew comparisons to Kellyanne Conway's “Bowling Green massacre.”
Fear spreads in L.A. after immigration ‘raid,’ advocates claim. Officials say arrests are “routine.”
Immigrant advocate groups claim that more than 100 people had been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in Southern California Thursday, indicating a “coordinated sweep” in arrests.
 
How all-caps came to signify shouting, as in Trump’s ‘SEE YOU IN COURT …’
Throughout most of written history, capitalization was used for aesthetic sentence structure rather than emphasis.
 
Your weekend watch: ‘Call Me Lucky,’ a difficult profile of comedian and anti-child abuse crusader Barry Crimmins
This week's pick is a documentary about a comedian who would go on to help fight the exchange of child pornography on the Internet.
 
ADVERTISEMENT
 
For years, immigration authorities gave this Arizona mother a pass. Now she has been deported.
Protests erupted as Guadalupe García de Rayos was taken into custody in Arizona. ICE said Thursday that she had been “removed” from the United States and sent back to Mexico.
 
‘The show must go on’: Five acrobats of famed Wallenda troupe injured falling 25 feet during pyramid stunt
Five were injured, one critically.
 
Archaeologists say they have found a cave that once held Dead Sea Scrolls, a first in 60 years
But there was no new Dead Sea Scroll to add to the record.
 
ADVERTISEMENT
 
The long struggle over what to call ‘undocumented immigrants’ or, as Trump said in his order, ‘illegal aliens’
"Illegal alien” and terms like it were originally proposed as a substitute for racial slurs.
 
Police knew about illegal housing, parties at Oakland warehouse before fire that killed 36, but took no action
Oakland city records released Wednesday showed that police responded to dozens of calls — including an illegal “rave" — at the warehouse and its neighboring properties in the two years before the Dec. 2 fatal inferno.
 
The science of excruciating pain, as when parents step barefoot on a Lego brick
A small and square Lego brick can withstand the equivalent of 950 pounds of force.
 
Recommended for you
 
The Switch
The day's top stories on the tech industry and tech in our lives.
Sign Up »
 
     
 
©2017 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071