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Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Department of Homeland Security has arrested a second student who was involved with Columbia University protests, the agency announced. Leqaa Korda was arrested by agents from Homeland Security [Read More…]

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The arrest of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was a “targeted, retaliatory detention and attempted removal of a student protestor because of his constitutionally protected speech,” his attorneys said [Read More…]

(ra-photos/Getty Images) (DENVER) — An American Airlines plane caught fire at Denver International Airport in Colorado on Thursday, sending passengers down emergency slides and onto the wing of the aircraft. Twelve were people being taken [Read More…]

(Don Grall/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Alaska’s Mount Spurr, an active volcano near the most populated region in the state, is getting even closer to an eruption, according to volcanologists. Scientists at the Alaska Volcano [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A multiday severe weather outbreak is set to bring tornadoes, flash flooding and damaging winds from the Midwest to the South and the East Coast. The severe weather begins in [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The detaining of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student and Palestinian activist who possessed a green card, has raised questions about the deportation risks faced by lawful permanent residents amid [Read More…]

KABC (LOS ANGELES) — Authorities are searching for the man who broke into a Los Angeles-area house and gunned down a father while his wife and son were home, officials said. The 61-year-old victim was [Read More…]

Alex Segre/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 98 people were arrested Thursday at a protest in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan that called for the immediate release of [Read More…]

Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images (CHARLESTON, S.C.) — The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was recently targeted with a bomb threat, the Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department said on Wednesday. Over the [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Dangerous, heavy rain pounded the Los Angeles area early Thursday, bringing a threat of flooding and debris flow to spots impacted by the recent devastating wildfires. A confirmed EF-0 tornado touched [Read More…]

Robert Knopes/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of 21 Democratic attorneys general are suing the Trump administration to block the dismantling of the Department of Education, alleging the firing of 50% [Read More…]

Wisconsin State Capitol; Jordan McAlister/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) — Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford sparred over how the court might impact abortion law in the state, as well as the involvement of [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice is preparing for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to begin working with the agency to identify “cost-cutting” measures, with Attorney General Pam Bondi this week [Read More…]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images (MADISON, N.J.) — The FBI is now involved in the investigation into a suspected arson earlier this month at the New Jersey home of a Bayer pharmaceutical executive, law enforcement sources told [Read More…]

A woman was charged for allegedly holding her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forcing him to endure “prolonged abuse, starvation, severe neglect, and inhumane [Read More…]

(Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images) (GLASGOW, Ky.) — Eli Heacock was like many 16-year-olds. The Glasgow, Kentucky, teenager enjoyed playing tennis, telling “dad jokes” and spending time with his father, who his mom said was “his best [Read More…]

KABC chopper over Loma Linda University Medical Center. Via KABC. (LOS ANGELES) — Reports of a possibly armed person at a San Bernardino, California, hospital sparked a massive law enforcement response Wednesday evening, but authorities [Read More…]

Alaila Everett, a senior at I.C. Norcom High School in Portsmouth, Virginia, speaks with ABC News in an interview that aired March 11, 2025, on “Good Morning America.” Via ABC. (NEW YORK) — A high [Read More…]

Ezra Acayan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A USAID directive to destroy classified documents had been “seriously misapprehended,” Trump administration attorneys wrote in a court filing Wednesday in which they insisted that all records were appropriately handled [Read More…]

Timothy A. Clary /AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge has set an expedited briefing schedule for Mahmoud Khalil — the Palestinian activist who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on [Read More…]