ABC News (ASHEVILLE, N.C.) — Strong winds and low humidity could create significant problems for firefighters in the Carolinas on Friday, as wildfires continue to rage throughout both states, officials said. Red flag warnings are in place for the western Carolinas on Friday with wind gusts reaching 30 mph and a relative […]
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — If allowed to go into effect, the Trump administration’s new policy on transgender soldiers would be a “de facto blanket prohibition” that seeks “to eradicate transgender service,” a federal judge wrote Thursday in issuing a preliminary injunction against the policy. In a 65-page […]
James Carbone/Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann and his estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, have reached a divorce settlement, according to court records. Ellerup filed for divorce shortly after Heuermann was arrested in July 2023. The terms of the divorce settlement, filed in Suffolk County […]
Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to preserve the contents of the chat in which top national security officials used the Signal app to discuss military strikes in Yemen as they were taking place earlier this month. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered […]
Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Miller Gardner, the 14-year-old son of former New York Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, was honored with a moment of silence at the Yankees’ opening day on Thursday, nearly one week after the teenager’s mysterious death in Costa Rica. “Miller had a spark in […]
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Stephanie Gonzalez says she and her family have endured “heartbreak” since the deportation of her parents, 55-year-old Gladys and 59-year-old Nelson Gonzalez. “They really did not deserve to be treated as criminals,” Stephanie Gonzalez, 27, told ABC News on Wednesday, […]
David Mcnew/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some U.S. states could be treated to a northern lights display thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space forecasts. Another round of aurora borealis is expected on Thursday night, with a predicted Kp index of magnitude four out of […]
Wesley Hitt/Getty Images (TUSCALOOSA, Ala.) — Federal immigration agents have detained a University of Alabama doctoral student who is a citizen of Iran, according to the school and ICE records. Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from Iran studying mechanical engineering, is currently being held in a detention facility, but ICE […]
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Organizations that provide legal aid to migrant children have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the agency cut funding to the program that provides legal representation to tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors. According to the […]
Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal restrictions on ghost guns, prosecutors in New York are warning 3D-printing companies their “insufficient security measures” are causing a “troubling rise in access to unregulated weaponry.” The warning came in […]
