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(LOS ANGELES) -- The legal battle over the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in California continued in a federal appeals court on Tuesday.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals presided over a remote hearing regarding California's challenge to President Donald Trump's federalization of the state's National Guard troops amid protests over immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who had instituted a curfew within downtown LA amid the protests, […]

(NEW YORK) -- The man who allegedly stabbed two court security officers as they screened people at the metal detectors at the Manhattan criminal courthouse was carrying out a "planned and calculated attack" that would have been worse had the weapon not been curved, prosecutors said.Jonathan Wohl made his initial appearance on Tuesday in the same courthouse where he allegedly charged at officers with a folding knife on Monday, prosecutors said. He […]

(GREEN ISLE, Minn.) -- Wendy Thomas was on the phone with her father when she saw someone in a field in Green Isle, Minnesota, on Sunday night.Thomas watched as the person reached a culvert and squatted, she told Minneapolis ABC affiliate KSTP."I was like, 'Dad, that’s somebody,'" she told the outlet. "He said, 'Hang up and call somebody.'"Moments later, Thomas was flagging down a member of law enforcement, she said, and […]

Ty Wright/Getty Images (NEW YORK)-- The death toll has climbed to seven in the wake of heavy rains and devastating flash flooding in West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said on Tuesday, as he warned the threat isn't over."Flood watches continue throughout West Virginia," Morrisey said on social media. "With the ground already saturated, there is the possibility of further flash flooding. Please continue to heed local warnings and do not […]

Ty Wright/Getty Images (NEW YORK)-- The death toll has climbed to seven in the wake of heavy rains and devastating flash flooding in West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said on Tuesday.Two people were unaccounted for as of Monday, according to the governor."West Virginia has been hit very, very hard," Morrisey said.A state of emergency is in effect and the West Virginia National Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are […]

David McNew/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) -- The legal battle over the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in California heads to a federal appeals court on Tuesday.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will preside over a remote hearing regarding California's challenge to President Donald Trump's federalization of the state's National Guard troops amid protests over immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.Last week, a federal judge in California issued […]

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- A temporary restraining order on President Donald Trump barring foreign Harvard University students from entering the U.S. will remain in effect until next Monday while a federal judge considers arguments made for a preliminary injunction.The temporary block was due to expire on Thursday before being extended Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs.Harvard's lawyers argued Trump's proclamation violates its First Amendment rights and is outside the authority of […]

(GREEN ISLE, Minn.) -- The man suspected of shooting and killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband as well as shooting and wounding a second lawmaker and his wife "stalked his victims like prey" and "shot them in cold blood," acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota Joseph Thompson said."His crimes are the stuff of nightmares," Thompson said at a news conference as he outlined the "chilling" details.Vance Boelter, 57, is […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WHEELING, W.Va.) -- The death toll in West Virginia has climbed to six after heavy rains and devastating flash flooding struck the state, according to Gov. Patrick Morrisey.Two people are unaccounted for, according to the governor's office, and a state of emergency is in effect.Flash flooding occurred throughout the city of Wheeling and the towns of Triadelphia and Valley Grove. Roughly 3 to 4 inches of rain […]