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Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted by grand jury over incident at ICE detention facility

Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted by grand jury over incident at ICE detention facility

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver for allegedly assaulting law enforcement officers outside of an immigration detention facility last month, officials announced Tuesday. The three-count indictment charges the Democratic congresswoman with “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal […]

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Evacuation orders lifted after brush fire contained in Los Angeles County

Evacuation orders lifted after brush fire contained in Los Angeles County

Burbank Police (LOS ANGELES) — A brush fire burning near homes in Los Angeles County prompted evacuation orders Tuesday afternoon, according to authorities. The Burbank Fire Department said Tuesday evening it managed to stop the forward progress of the Bethany Fire, which was burning near a residential area in Burbank, […]

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Police rescue 68-year-old woman from burning car after it flips over on highway

Police rescue 68-year-old woman from burning car after it flips over on highway

(CHESTER, NY) — A 68-year-old woman is in stable condition after being rescued from a vehicle fire that engulfed her car when it flipped over during a crash on a highway in New York, police said. The incident occurred shortly after 4 a.m. on Sunday morning when units from the […]

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Missing 21-year-old Navy sailor found dead, another sailor in custody

Missing 21-year-old Navy sailor found dead, another sailor in custody

Virginia State Police (NORFOLK, VA) — A 21-year-old Navy sailor who mysteriously disappeared in Virginia has been found dead, and another sailor is in custody, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service said. Angelina “Angie” Resendiz was last seen on the morning of May 29 at her barracks in Miller Hall at […]

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Family threatens legal action after track star is disqualified over celebration paying homage to Olympian

Family threatens legal action after track star is disqualified over celebration paying homage to Olympian

Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images (SALINAS, Calif.) — The family of a 16-year-old track star is threatening to take legal action after the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) disqualified their daughter and stripped her of her gold medal after she celebrated her win in the state final by spraying her feet […]

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Senate Democrats file bill to prevent ban on transgender military service

Senate Democrats file bill to prevent ban on transgender military service

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic lawmakers will submit a bill in the Senate on Tuesday that would reverse the Pentagon’s new ban on transgender military service members diagnosed with gender dysphoria who now face being forced out if they had not previously self-identified as transgender. The “Fit […]

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Trump administration says it will appeal order granting El Salvador deportees due process

Trump administration says it will appeal order granting El Salvador deportees due process

Alex Peña/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration says it will appeal a court order requiring it to allow hundreds of noncitizens who were deported in March to El Salvador to challenge their detentions. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last week ordered the Trump administration to give the hundreds of […]

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1-year-old girl dies after being left in hot car for 9 hours; dad arrested for murder

1-year-old girl dies after being left in hot car for 9 hours; dad arrested for murder

St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office (MADISONVILLVE, La.) — A Louisiana dad has been arrested for second-degree murder after he allegedly left his 1-year-old daughter in a hot car for over nine hours, authorities said. The incident unfolded after Joseph Boatman “consumed multiple alcoholic beverages” and then went to pick up […]

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Amid LA protests, what officials say about the rules of force for National Guard, Marines

Amid LA protests, what officials say about the rules of force for National Guard, Marines

Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The Marines and the National Guard personnel deployed amid the protests in to Los Angeles will operate under the same rules of force and will not be engaging crowds unless necessary, according to two U.S. officials. That means they are tasked with […]

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Private astronaut mission marks next step toward a new space station

Private astronaut mission marks next step toward a new space station

NASA via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — NASA is planning on decommissioning the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2030. But before that happens, Axiom Space, a privately funded space infrastructure company based in Houston, wants to build a replacement. The company has begun construction of the world’s first […]

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