Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The wife of pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil gave birth to their first child while he remains in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Khalil, who is being held at a detention center in Jena, Louisiana, was denied a request for temporary release to […]
Andy Alfaro/The Modesto Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — After investigating the case for more than a year, the Los Angeles Innocence Project has filed voluminous evidence it says shows Scott Peterson did not murder his wife and unborn son in 2002. In a nearly 400-page petition […]
Natalie Behring/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Lori Daybell, the mother convicted of murdering two of her children in a so-called doomsday plot, delivered her closing argument Monday during her latest trial in Arizona, where she is charged with conspiring with her brother to kill her fourth husband. Dubbed the “doomsday mom,” […]
Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Harvard University is suing President Donald Trump’s administration for threatening to withhold federal funding if the school did not comply with its list of demands. The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts federal court, asks a judge to block the funding freeze from going into […]
Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A jury has found Nadine Menendez guilty in her federal bribery trial, following the conviction of her husband, former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, on similar crimes. Prosecutors argued the two were “partners in crime” while accusing them of accepting cash, gold […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for the Justice Department, facing pushback on the Trump administration’s efforts to deport alleged migrant gang members under the wartime Alien Enemies Act, told a federal judge in Colorado Monday that they would give such migrants at least 24 hours to file a […]
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Federal judges in Colorado and California are hearing arguments Monday over the Trump administration’s deportation policies as government officials press to remove accused migrant gang members. In Colorado, a federal judge will weigh arguments over a temporary order the judge issued that bars the […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — After his deportation was temporarily blocked by a Supreme Court order, 19-year-old Venezuelan migrant Alessandro Paredes spoke to ABC News from a detention center in Texas. “This is not being done by law, this is totally illegal and it’s out of the blue,” Paredes said, recounting […]
(TRILLA, IL) — Four people from Wisconsin were killed on Saturday when their private, single-engine plane crashed in a field near an airport in rural Illinois after reportedly striking powerlines, authorities said. The Cessna 180G aircraft crashed about 10:16 a.m. local time Saturday in the unincorporated community of Trilla, Illinois, […]
Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — The Florida State University community is reeling and police are searching for a motive after a gunman opened fire on the Tallahassee campus on Thursday, killing two and injuring six. Tallahassee police have laid out how the shooting unfolded. The suspect, 20-year-old […]
