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(NEW YORK) -- A legal advocacy group has asked the New York bar to investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for potential violations stemming from his role in the prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.The letter, from the Campaign for Accountability, was sent days after the federal judge overseeing the human smuggling case against Abrego Garcia dismissed the indictment, citing a "tainted investigation" by Blanche."The objective evidence here shows that, absent Abrego's successful […]

(LONGVIEW, Wash.) -- A second employee has died after a chemical tank ruptured at a paper mill in Washington state, officials said Wednesday.Nine people remain missing, as recovery efforts are underway a day after the incident, officials said."We're bracing ourselves for this being the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history," Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said during a press briefing on Wednesday."When you have a tragedy of that scale, the impacts […]

(NEWARK, N.J.) -- Tensions continue to rise outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, as activists and Democratic leaders clash with the federal government over conditions there.A hunger strike inside the 1,000-bed Delaney Hall detention center has been ongoing since Friday after detainees alleged they are not being well fed or provided sanitary living conditions, according to activists."They're given rotten frozen food, or in the case of […]

(NEW YORK) -- A Google employee fraudulently made more than $1 million by using inside information to place Polymarket bets on what users were searching for on Google, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday in New York. For Michele Spagnuolo, these were sure bets because, as a Google software engineer, he had access to company data that tracked user searches, according to the complaint, which said Spagnuolo "misappropriated confidential and valuable […]