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(DELANO, Calif.) -- An escaped California inmate is now wanted for killing a Mexican police commander who hunts down foreign fugitives -- also known as a "gringo hunter" -- during a shootout in Tijuana, officials said.Abigail Esparza Reyes, who was part of a specialized Mexican state police unit responsible for locating foreign fugitives who cross the border, was killed on Wednesday while trying to arrest Cesar Hernandez, an escaped inmate […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) -- Authorities in Los Angeles County said they're searching for the suspect who shoplifted from a discount store before killing a man in a hit-and-run in the store's parking lot.The victim was visiting his brother's shop, Giant Discount Store in South El Monte, when, just after noon on Wednesday, a man came in and stole merchandise, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.The victim chased […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge in Boston Thursday will consider pumping the brakes on a controversial Trump administration policy of removing migrants to countries where they have no prior connection without allowing them to raise concerns about their safety.A group of noncitizens with final removal orders filed a federal lawsuit challenging the policy last month, arguing that being removed to countries like El Salvador, Honduras or Panama -- despite having […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Asian and European markets rallied in Thursday trading in response to President Donald Trump's dramatic decision to suspend planned tariffs on nearly all American trading partners for 90 days -- with the exception of China.Key Asian indices recorded notable recoveries on Thursday -- marking a reprieve for most after a week of turbulence and selloffs driven by fears of escalating trade wars and recessions.In […]

Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Karen Read's emergency request to delay her state murder trial until it reviews her appeal. No explanation was given for the denial of her request.Read had filed an emergency petition on Monday, asking the court for a stay of her retrial -- which has begun jury selection -- pending review by the high court on her claims […]

(MOSCOW, Idaho) -- University of Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger returned to court on Wednesday for a high-stakes hearing to decide what evidence will be allowed at his trial, which is set to begin in August.The use of particular language has been a major point of contention in the ongoing hearing.Judge Steven Hippler agreed to the defense's request to ban the words "psychopath" and "sociopath" from the trial.The defense asked that […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell and $790 million to Northwestern, as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, according to two White House officials."On Monday, several Trump administration agencies froze roughly $790M of federal funding and roughly $1.05B of federal funding from Northwestern and Cornell, respectively," a senior administration official told ABC News. "The money was frozen in […]

Photo by Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein was back in court on Wednesday with less than a week before the start of his second New York sex assault trial. His trial is expected to last four to six weeks once testimony begins, prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday.Jury selection begins Tuesday and is expected to last as long as five days, Judge Curtis Farber said.Prospective […]

Security Fire Department (SECURITY-WIDEFIELD, Colo.) -- Three children and two dogs were rescued from a storm drainage system in Colorado, according to fire officials.Officials responded to a neighborhood in Security-Widefield, Colorado, searching for "three children and two dogs lost in the maze of the underground storm drainage system" over the weekend, the Security Fire Department said in a statement on Monday.After an "extensive search," the children and the dogs were […]