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(NEW YORK) -- Videos released by the Texas Department of Public Safety appear to cast doubt on the Department of Homeland Security's account of a fatal agent-involved shooting of U.S. citizen that occurred in South Padre Island, Texas, in March 2025.Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was fatally shot by a Homeland Security Investigations agent on March 15, 2025. The incident was initially reported by local news outlets as an officer-involved shooting. […]

Right-wing influencer Jake Lang walks with a goat and supporters at a protest organized by the influencer on March 7, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Ryan Murphy/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Police arrested four people after a smoke-generating "suspicious device" was thrown during a protest at the New York City mayor's residence Saturday.It was not immediately known if Mayor Zohran Mamdani or his wife, Rama Duwaji, were inside […]

(NEW YORK) -- The threat for severe storms continues Saturday for much of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys.At least eight people have been confirmed dead this week as severe weather hit Michigan and Oklahoma.The severe weather threat continues Saturday, with two areas of severe weather (level 2 of 5 severe risk), from Texas to Mississippi, including Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Jackson, where large hail and damaging winds are the […]

Workers finish installing words from President Barack Obamaâs speech marking the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march, on the exterior of the Obama Presidential Center Museum building on Feb. 17, 2026, in Chicago. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) (CHICAGO) -- The Obama Presidential Center’s grand opening celebrations will begin in June, almost five years after its groundbreaking in Chicago, the Obama Foundation announced.The center […]

(NEW YORK) -- President Donald Trump's decision to carry out strikes on Iran has further exposed a fracture among some of the president's fiercest supporters inside MAGA world -- one that many supporters say will only widen with every week the conflict continues.Since the first strike last week, Trump's actions in Iran have faced stark criticism from some of the most popular voices in MAGA media who helped boost his […]

(NEW YORK) -- President Donald Trump is set to attend the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Saturday for the service members who were killed in Kuwait amid the war in Iran.The transfer will mark the return home of the first American soldiers killed in the war with Iran."I will be going to Dover Air Force Base tomorrow, with the First Lady and Members of my […]

(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 70 million Americans are under a severe weather threat heading into the weekend, including the possibility of tornadoes in the central United States, after deadly storms swept through Oklahoma.A storm system is bringing rain, snow, ice and severe weather from the Rockies to the Upper Midwest and across much of the Plains on Friday.The severe storm threat stretches from Dallas to Milwaukee, including Des Moines, Iowa, […]