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(SAN DIEGO) -- Even as the Trump administration's mass deportation of undocumented migrants was unfolding, the U.S. Coast Guard announced it had intercepted a boat packed with migrants off the California coast.A 40-foot panga-style boat attempting to smuggle migrants into the United States was stopped by two Coast Guard cutter crews Monday night about 20 miles off the coast of San Diego, the Coast Guard said in a statement released on Tuesday."The […]

(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein begged a Manhattan judge on Wednesday to put him on trial earlier than planned, saying he isn't sure he will live until the spring while incarcerated in the "hell hole" that is the New York City jail complex."Every day I'm at Rikers Island it's a mystery to me how I'm still walking," Weinstein told the court while seated in a wheelchair. "I'm asking and begging you, your […]

Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice, now under new leadership following Donald Trump's inauguration, has moved to drop its appeal of the classified documents case that once accused Trump of mishandling some of the country's most sensitive secrets.Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Hayden O’Bryne on Wednesday moved to dismiss the appeal against Trump's former co-defendants in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Private prison company CoreCivic reported in a lobbying disclosure that it donated $500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee in December, underscoring the close relationship between President Donald Trump and the private prison industry.As ABC News has previously reported, CoreCivic and private prison company GEO Group, both which have both long supported Trump, saw their stock prices immediately spike after Trump's victory in the November election.The […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A storm is bearing down on the southern Plains and Texas, where residents are bracing for severe weather, including flash flooding.On Wednesday evening, when the storm moves in, there's a chance for damaging winds, hail and even an isolated tornado in Texas.On Thursday, the storm will fully blossom in the South, bringing the threat of tornadoes and damaging winds from Houston to Jackson, Mississippi.Flash flooding […]