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(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration on Monday agreed to fly the rainbow pride flag on federal grounds at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City after the National Park Service's removal of the flag was challenged in a federal lawsuit filed by a coalition of LGBTQ+ advocacy groups.The Department of the Interior, which oversees NPS, agreed to fly the flag at the site as part of a resolution to the lawsuit […]

(SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.) -- A Texas man has been charged with traveling to California to allegedly throw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house, according to court records unsealed on Monday.The suspect, Daniel Moreno-Gama, was allegedly caught on video surveillance outside the CEO's home in San Francisco, according to court records. Around 4 a.m. Friday, the suspect allegedly "threw an incendiary destructive device" at Altman's house, which sparked a fire […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has fired two immigration judges who earlier this year dismissed the deportation cases of students advocating for Palestinian rights, the union representing immigration judges confirmed Monday.Roopal Patel, who was appointed as an immigration judge in 2024, ruled in February that there were no grounds to deport Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student at Tufts University. Ozturk was held in detention in Louisiana for 45 days.Nina Froes, […]

(WINN PARISH, La.) -- A Mexican migrant died last week in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to an agency notification sent to lawmakers, becoming the 47th person to die in ICE detention during the second Trump administration.Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, died on April 11 at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana.In the notification, ICE said that Cabrera was found unresponsive and was transported to a local medical center."Despite life-saving […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and aggravated sexual abuse in the death of his stepsister during a family cruise vacation, the Department of Justice announced Monday.Anna Kepner, 18, died on the Carnival Cruise ship Horizon in November while the ship was in international waters and heading to Miami, prosecutors said.The DOJ alleged the stepbrother "sexually assaulted and intentionally killed" Kepner. The Florida high school senior died from […]

(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge on Monday threw out President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal after Trump sued the paper last July for its reporting on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book.In his order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles concluded that Trump failed to prove that the Wall Street Journal knowingly published false information in the paper's July article […]

(NEW YORK) -- At least one person was killed and six others were injured in a shooting inside a Chick-fil-A restaurant on Saturday night in Union Township, New Jersey, according to authorities.As of Sunday afternoon, no arrests had been made as the investigation continued in the shooting at a Chick-fil-A on Route 22 in Union Township, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement."I have been briefed on the […]

People walk through Grand Central Terminal on November 4, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- Police shot and killed a knife-wielding man on a subway platform at Grand Central Station in New York City on Saturday after he stabbed at least two people, according to the NYPD.Officers were called to the scene shortly after 9:30 this morning.Police said the man had been acting […]

The Artemis II crew floats in the Pacific Ocean of the coast of San Diego after splashing down, April 10, 2026. (NASA) (NEW YORK) -- NASA's Artemis II mission lifted off on April 1 at 6:35 p.m. ET from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The four-person crew completed a 695,081-mile, 10-day journey around the moon, also known as a lunar fly-by.A "textbook" splashdown took place at 8:07 p.m. ET on Friday, April […]