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Judge to decide fate of Trump’s federal buyout offer
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A federal judge in Boston Monday will consider whether to block President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk from carrying out their unprecedented plan to buy out tens of [Read More…]
Super Bowl Sunday forecast: 15 million under winter storm alerts
ABC News More than 15 million people across a large portion of the nation were under winter storm alerts on Super Bowl Sunday morning, with many digging out from snow left by the first of [Read More…]
Migrant farm workers go on high alert amid immigration raids
Roughly half of California’s farm workers are undocumented immigrants. Via ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — California’s Central Valley is considered “America’s bread basket,” supplying a quarter of the nation’s food and producing 40% of its [Read More…]
Children, schools face renewed fears over heightened immigration enforcement
(Stella/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — In classrooms across the country, children of immigrants are facing heightened fears over news that immigration enforcement officers are now allowed to enter schools, according to educators. While it’s unclear if [Read More…]
Judge blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID employees on leave at midnight
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place 2,200 employees of the United States Agency for International Development on leave at [Read More…]
Federal judge denies effort to block DOGE from accessing DOL data despite ‘concerns’
Al Drago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge, in a ruling late Friday evening, has denied an effort to block the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data from the Department of Labor. In [Read More…]
JFK assassination files one step closer to possible public release
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The decades-long wait for the release of the government’s secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy could be nearing an end, with word from the Office of [Read More…]
Alexander brothers plead not guilty, prosecutors say they raped more than 60 women
Matias J. Ocner/Pool/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Luxury real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, along with their brother Alon, on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to drug and sexually assault [Read More…]
Judge to decide whether to block DOGE from accessing sensitive Labor Department records
Al Drago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Friday will consider blocking the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing records from the Department of Labor after a lawsuit alleged that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team [Read More…]
Denver ICE raids targeting 100+ gang members yielded one alleged gang member: Sources
RJ Sangosti/MediaNews/The Denver Post via Getty Images (DENVER) — Two federal law enforcement sources briefed on Wednesday morning’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-led raids in seven locations across Denver tell ABC News that the operation [Read More…]
DOJ agrees not to publicly release of list of FBI agents who investigated Jan. 6
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department and attorneys representing a group of FBI employees who sued over a list compiled of personnel who worked on cases stemming from [Read More…]
Alexander brothers plead not guilty, prosecutors say they raped more than 60 women
Matias J. Ocner/Pool/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Luxury real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, along with their brother Alon, on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to drug and sexually assault [Read More…]
After 100,000 eggs stolen, CEO says company will crack down on security
Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (GREENCASTLE, Pa.) — The CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Eggs is speaking out after 100,000 eggs mysteriously disappeared from one of its facilities in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, last weekend. In an exclusive interview [Read More…]
Crews still searching for flight reported missing on Thursday in Alaska
aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NOME, Alaska) — Crews in Nome, Alaska, are conducting search-and-rescue operations after a Bering Air caravan with 10 people aboard went missing, according to local authorities. Bering Air Flight [Read More…]
Cross-country storm set to bring more snow to Northeast: Forecast
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The storm that brought heavy rain and mountain snow to the West Coast is making the trek across the country to bring a significant snowstorm to the Northeast this weekend. [Read More…]
NY poultry markets shut down as a precaution over bird flu
Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Live bird markets in New York City, Long Island and Westchester County will be shut down for a week after seven cases of avian flu in poultry were [Read More…]
Cities where Breonna Taylor, George Floyd were killed vow to stay firm on police reform – with or without Trump
Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — During the final weeks of the Biden administration, the Department of Justice announced consent decrees for police reform with the cities of Minneapolis and Louisville – court-enforceable agreements born [Read More…]
Victims, first responders of New Orleans terror attack expected to be honored at Super Bowl
Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — Just a little over a month since 14 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a truck-ramming terror attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, the [Read More…]
Rubio says it’s ‘not our intention’ to uproot USAID workers abroad
Photo by MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of State Marco Rubio told embassy officials in Guatemala this week that it was “not our intention” to uproot families deployed overseas with USAID, despite the agency [Read More…]
‘Combative’ man restrained by fellow passengers on Frontier Airlines flight after breaking window plexiglass
AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (HOUSTON) — A man aboard a Frontier Airlines flight en route to Houston had to be restrained by fellow passengers on Wednesday after he began kicking seats and hitting a window, eventually breaking [Read More…]