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Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, thundered into the evening sky from the southern tip of Texas.
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The ICE detention center in Folkston, Ga., is expanding to become one of the nation's largest immigrant detention centers. Operated by a private prison corporation GEO Group, it will hold more than 3,000 detainees.