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Lee County Sheriff's Office (FORT MYERS, Fla.) -- A man who escaped a Puerto Rican prison nearly 40 years ago was taken into custody in Florida, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.Jorge Milla-Valdes escaped from a Puerto Rican prison in 1987. The Puerto Rico Department of Justice believed he was living under the name Luis Aguirre.His criminal history included robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in Florida's […]

(WASHINGTON) -- As the Department of Government Efficiency rapidly moves to reshape the federal government, several groups challenging DOGE in court are attempting to determine how Elon Musk's budget-slashers were able to rapidly entrench themselves in at least 15 agencies.Over the coming week, federal judges have ordered key Trump administration officials to testify about mass firings and the dismantling of key agencies, while DOGE representatives will likely have to turn over […]

WABC (NEW YORK) -- A woman's ex-boyfriend is in police custody after she was found dead in a suitcase on Thursday in Yonkers, New York, law enforcement sources said.Pamela Alcantara, 26, was found dead in a marshy area by the side of Saw Mill River Parkway after going missing over the weekend, according to law enforcement sources.The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, the NYPD said.While her 46-year-old ex-boyfriend […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Friday that the Trump administration's tariffs would likely raise prices for U.S. shoppers and retailers.The scale and duration of the tariffs remain unclear but a portion of the taxes on imports will probably reach consumers, Powell told an economic forum in New York City on Friday."We’re at a stage where we’re still very uncertain about what will be tariffed, for how long, […]

(NEW YORK) -- Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the journal Science."Our national-scale findings paint the most complete -- and concerning -- picture of the status of butterflies across the country in the early 21st century," the study said.The study, titled "Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century," counted 12.6 million butterflies, […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The Justice Department on Friday put three federal prosecutors in Manhattan on leave, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.Two of the prosecutors -- Andrew Rohrbach and Celia Cohen -- worked on the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.Rohrbach also worked on the successful prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, former crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried and lawyer Michael Avenatti.Cohen worked […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will have reverberating impacts on how meteorologists across the country forecast the weather, according to experts.Last week, many NOAA employees took to social media to announce that they had been terminated after weeks of uncertainty as the Trump administration continues to make cuts at federal agencies. But the widespread firings of meteorologists who make safety determinations based on upcoming weather and […]

(NEW YORK) -- Last July, a prosecutor in California sent a letter to Elon Musk's SpaceX with an urgent message: The company's internet satellite dishes are being used by criminal organizations in so-called "scam compounds" across Southeast Asia.Starlink, which was developed by SpaceX in 2019, provides internet to remote locations, and the company's satellite systems have been used in war-torn Ukraine, in hospitals in Gaza, and in areas affected by […]

(WASHINGTON) Hunter Biden may have his freedom, but the son of former President Joe Biden now finds himself mired in debt, without a permanent home, and the target of ongoing attacks from the current president, Donald Trump, and his allies on Capitol Hill, according to a court filing.In court papers filed Wednesday, Hunter Biden asked a federal judge to dismiss his lawsuit against online provocateur Garrett Ziegler because he "does not […]