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Trump administration escalates legal battle over alleged gang member deportations

Trump administration escalates legal battle over alleged gang member deportations

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A day after a federal judge ordered the Justice Department to provide details about two deportation flights to El Salvador over the weekend, the Trump administration is escalating its legal battle against him. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Saturday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens […]

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Judge calls out military’s history of discrimination in blocking Trump’s transgender soldier ban

Judge calls out military’s history of discrimination in blocking Trump’s transgender soldier ban

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban transgender people from military service continues an unfortunate history of the armed services excluding marginalized people from the “privilege of serving,” a federal judge wrote Tuesday night. In a 79-page decision, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes blocked […]

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JFK files key takeaways: What we learned and didn’t

JFK files key takeaways: What we learned and didn’t

Robert Alexander/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The records were posted to the National Archives’ website, joining recently released records posted in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2017-2018. Most of […]

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Government releases thousands of declassified records related to JFK assassination

Government releases thousands of declassified records related to JFK assassination

Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The records were posted to the National Archives’ website, joining recently released records posted in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2017-2018. “This release […]

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Trump again assails federal judge at center of deportation flight controversy

Trump again assails federal judge at center of deportation flight controversy

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is lashing out again against the top federal judge of the Washington, D.C. circuit, who issued an order stopping deportation flights of alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. “If a President doesn’t have the right to throw murderers, and other […]

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Concerns about the FAA’s air traffic control system date back decades

Concerns about the FAA’s air traffic control system date back decades

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal watchdogs have raised concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system for decades, an ABC News analysis of government reports found. In the weeks since the fatal plane crash over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DOT Secretary […]

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Toddler found wandering streets alone with soiled diaper leads police back to shocking scene at home

Toddler found wandering streets alone with soiled diaper leads police back to shocking scene at home

Facebook / Flagler County Sheriff’s Department (PALM COAST, FL) — A toddler found wandering in the middle of a Florida street with a heavily soiled diaper ended up leading police to a home with extremely hazardous living conditions with the father passed out intoxicated in his bed, police say. The […]

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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil calls himself a ‘political prisoner’ in new letter

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil calls himself a ‘political prisoner’ in new letter

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil called himself a “political prisoner” in a new letter dictated from the Louisiana detention center where he remains held following his arrest on Columbia University’s campus. “I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake […]

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SpaceX Dragon successfully splashes down, returning NASA astronauts back to Earth

SpaceX Dragon successfully splashes down, returning NASA astronauts back to Earth

Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images (CAPE CANAVERAL, FL) — The two NASA astronauts whose return to Earth was delayed for months have just splashed down to Earth. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission, carrying astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, successfully landed off the coast of Florida after undocking from […]

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New York woman pleads guilty to mailing drug-soaked documents to prisons

New York woman pleads guilty to mailing drug-soaked documents to prisons

J. David Ake/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Albany woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to mailing drug-soaked documents to inmates in correctional facilities in New York, according to federal prosecutors. Authorities said Maya McIntosh, 33, sold the illicit documents on social media — and disguised them as legal paperwork when […]

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