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(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump's appointee as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, must stop using that title before the court or face disciplinary action."Ms. Halligan's continued identification of herself as the United States Attorney for this District ignores a binding court order and may not continue," the order from U.S. District Judge David Novak stated.  Judge Novak earlier this […]

(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) -- Former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales could have suffered from "inattentive blindness" and "tunnel vision" when he responded to the Robb Elementary School shooting, a former officer testified for the defense on Tuesday.Former San Antonio police officer Willie Cantu said the jurors are unlikely to "understand just how bad" the tunnel vision could be during an emergency response.To describe "inattentive blindness," Cantu compared the […]

(CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas) -- The Robb Elementary School gunman ducked behind a parked car when former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales initially drove by him, an eyewitness told jurors on Tuesday.That move, defense lawyers allege, prevented Gonzales from being able to clearly spot the gunman when he first arrived at the school on May 24, 2022.Claudia Rodriguez, a secretary at the funeral home that neighbored Robb, was the first witness […]

(EL PASO, Texas) -- An undocumented immigrant died while in custody at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, federal authorities said.Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, of Nicaragua, died of a "presumed suicide" on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana, a sprawling tent complex at the U.S. Army's Fort Bliss base in El Paso, ICE said Sunday. The official cause of death remains under investigation, the agency said.ICE […]

Bitter Cold - Tuesday AM Wind Chills Map. ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A major arctic blast is stretching from the Midwest to the Northeast, bringing dangerously cold weather to 43 million people.On Monday morning, the wind chill -- what temperature it feels like -- plunged to minus 30 degrees in Minneapolis; minus 27 degrees in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; minus 22 degrees in Chicago; and minus 22 degrees in Green Bay, Wisconsin.The brutal Midwest wind chill continued on Tuesday morning, […]

(NEW YORK) -- Their brand was ultra-lux real estate, and the lifestyle to match.For more than a decade, brothers Oren and Tal Alexander built a rep of jetsetting glamour and partying at hot spots, flanked always by beautiful women.What was actually going on behind the scenes, according to federal authorities, was criminal.Along with a third brother, Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander were arrested in December 2024 on federal sex trafficking […]

(LAFAYETTE, Ind.) -- An Indiana judge and his wife were injured in a shooting at their home over the weekend, with a search underway for the suspected gunman, officials said.Tippecanoe County Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, were shot in their home on Sunday, according to Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush.Both are in stable condition, police said Monday.Officers responded to the home in Lafayette around 2:17 […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The Justice Department said they are investigating am incident in which anti-ICE protesters disrupted a service on Sunday at a Minneapolis church where one of the pastors is an ICE official.Video posted online by Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows protesters entering Cities Church in Minneapolis, where they said one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is the acting field director of the St. Paul ICE field office.Easterwood was not […]

(NEW YORK) -- A strong geomagnetic storm could soon interact with Earth's atmosphere, bringing the potential for northern lights displays to be seen much further south in the continental U.S., according to space weather experts.A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) -- a massive burst of solar material and magnetic field from the sun's outer atmosphere -- that occurred on Sunday is expected to reach Earth within the next 24 hours, according […]