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(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Department of Justice has been quietly investigating a Tennessee traffic stop in 2022 involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man at the center of a high-profile court battle over his mistaken deportation from Maryland to El Salvador by the Trump administration, ABC News has learned.Federal investigators involved in the inquiry recently spoke with a convicted felon in an Alabama prison and questioned him about potential connections […]

(COLUMBIA, SC) -- The body of a young woman was discovered inside a rented house in Columbia, South Carolina, over the weekend, according to a press conference held by Columbia Police Department on Monday.She was later identified as Logan Federico, a 22-year-old from Waxhaw, North Carolina, police said. Her cause of death was a fatal gunshot wound to the chest, according to Columbia Coroner Naida Rutherford.The college student was spending […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Escalating an ongoing clash between President Donald Trump's administration and Harvard University, the Department of Education announced an immediate pause on Harvard's grant funding -- making the school ineligible for new research grants until it agrees with compliance criteria."Harvard is not eligible for any new grants from the federal government until they demonstrate responsible management of the university," a senior official from the Department of Education said on […]

(WASHINGTON) -- After having his security clearance revoked by President Donald Trump, high-profile whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid on Monday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to have his security clearance restored -- saying that it was revoked for "improper political retribution.""The Trump Administration is seeking to neutralize someone viewed as an adversarial threat," the complaint, filed in Washington, D.C., stated.In March, Trump issued a presidential memorandum that revoked […]

(BOSTON) -- A first responder testified Monday in Karen Read's murder retrial that she heard the defendant say, "I hit him," multiple times after her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, was found unresponsive in the snow outside a Massachusetts home in 2022.Prosecutors allege, following a night of drinking in Canton, that Read struck O'Keefe with her Lexus SUV outside of a get-together at another officer's home and left him […]