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A second defendant named in Jane Doe's lawsuit alleging forcible drugging and gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity house is asking a judge to remove New York Attorney General Letitia James from the case.Winston Lee joined fellow Chi Phi fraternity brother Gillio Lopes in seeking James' removal as special prosecutor.Lee argued the attorney general and Gov. Kathy Hochul "have together created a blatant appearance of impropriety" and James herself "has […]

An Avianca airline plane sits on the tarmac at El Dorado International Airport on Aug. 31, 2020, in Bogota, Colombia. (Guillermo Legaria/Getty Images) Multiple passengers and crew members were injured when an Avianca flight headed to New York City experienced "unexpected turbulence" and diverted to Miami, the Colombian airline said.Avianca Flight 42 landed safely at Miami International Airport around 3:25 a.m. Friday, "after the crew reported severe turbulence," according to […]

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in a residential New York City neighborhood Thursday afternoon during what the agency called a "targeted enforcement operation."New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling the incident an "outrage," said the man was in a vehicle with a 5-year-old child at the time."School had just gotten out. The street was crowded with families and children. When the ICE agent opened […]

Evacuation orders have been issued for several counties in the Florida Panhandle and Alabama as Hurricane Isaias, now a powerful Category 3 storm, inches closer to landfall.The storm could bring 9 feet of storm surge to parts of Florida, along with high winds, torrential rain and potential tornados. The storm is also forecasted to bring tornados and heavy rain throughout Alabama, according to the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.Isaias could make […]

Hurricane Isaias is a Category 3 storm currently headed toward the Gulf Coast, with landfall expected Friday evening along Florida's Panhandle.The storm strengthened from a high-end Category 2 hurricane into a Category 3 hurricane Friday morning ahead of landfall, which is expected between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.Rain reached the Florida Panhandle early Friday and is expected to spread across the central Gulf Coast as tropical-storm-force winds are expected to […]

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 was awarded Friday to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law."Calling her a person "with exceptional courage and integrity" and somebody who "has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order," the Nobel Institute said that Pillay "has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.""Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles […]

The Trump administration has quietly organized a team of government attorneys to represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, according to a federal notice.The announcement, posted by the Department of Health and Human Services, says that HHS lawyers under a new agency division will "provide direct legal services to unaccompanied alien children."The development comes after the administration cut ties with a number of immigration advocacy groups that had previously provided […]

Last month was the warmest September on record for the contiguous United States, surpassing the previous record set in 1998, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).The Lower 48 recorded above-average temperatures for the 20th straight month, continuing a streak that began in February 2025. So far, four months this year have ranked as the warmest on record: March, July, August and September. NOAA’s […]

General view of Fred D Thompson Federal Building & Courthouse on June 27, 2025, in Nashville, Tennessee. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) Officers shot and killed a man inside a federal courthouse in Nashville on Thursday after he allegedly brandished a gun and then a knife in the court's lobby, investigators said.At around 9:30 am, an unidentified male in his 40s, who was from out of state, attempted to pass through the […]