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(CORVALLIS, Ore.) -- Two women have been arrested in connection with a dating app scheme that led to the shooting of a man in Corvallis, Oregon, authorities said.Julia Dell Yepez, 20, and Alexa Montano Corral, 20, were taken into custody following an investigation into the May 17 shooting of a man they allegedly met through the Chispa dating app, according to the Benton County Sheriff's Office.Investigators believe the women used […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- A fourth woman has been arrested for allegedly helping inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail last week, police said.Casey Smith, 30, was arrested on Thursday for allegedly assisting two of the 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on May 16, according to the New Orleans Police Department."Through investigation, members of the NOPD’s Special Operations Division Tactical II team obtained information linking Smith to […]

(DALTON, Ga.) -- The Georgia teen who was arrested in a case of mistaken identity -- and then detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over her undocumented status -- is saying a day after her release on bond that her time in custody was "life-changing."Ximena Arias-Cristobal, 19, was arrested on May 5 in Dalton, Georgia, when her dark gray truck was mistaken for a black pickup that made an illegal turn. Those […]

(NEW YORK) -- The alleged leader of a neo-Nazi cult based overseas has been extradited to the United States and accused of inspiring "multiple senseless killings" around the world, including the shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, that four months ago left one student dead and another injured, according to the Justice Department.In a letter to a federal judge filed Friday morning, the Justice Department said that Michail Chkhikvishvili, a […]

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Harvard University sued the Trump administration Friday, alleging that the decision to revoke the school's ability to enroll international students "is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act."The Trump administration said on Thursday the school lost its ability to use the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (which allows for noncitizens to study at the university under a specific […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- A Slidell woman was arrested and accused of helping a fugitive who is still at large from the massive New Orleans jailbreak elude capture, Louisiana State Police said.Connie Weeden, 59, was taken into custody in Slidell and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center on Thursday. In addition to jail employees, she is the third person arrested for assisting the Orleans Justice Center's escaped inmates.Weeden faces a felony […]

(SAN DIEGO) -- At least two people are confirmed dead and eight others injured after a small plane crashed in a neighborhood of San Diego on Thursday morning, spewing jet fuel and starting a large fire that damaged about 10 buildings and multiple cars, fire officials said.The small private jet crashed seconds before landing at about 3:45 am. local time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.Five people were taken to […]

(NEW YORK) --  Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who the Trump administration has targeted for deportation after he helped organize pro-Palestinian protests as a student at Columbia University, met his infant son for the first time, prior to his immigration hearing Thursday in Louisiana.Thursday's hearing was attended by Khalil's wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, who gave birth to the couple's son on April 21 during Khalil's ongoing detention in Louisiana.Khalil, a green card holder who is […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The newly sworn-in head of the Social Security Administration told agency staff this week that when he was first offered the job in the Trump administration, he wasn't familiar with the position and had to look it up online.Frank Bisignano, a former Wall Street executive, said during a town hall with Social Security managers from around the country on Wednesday that he wasn't seeking a position in the […]