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Scott Eisen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Attorneys for Harvard University and the American Association of University Professors are in federal court Monday to argue against the Trump administration's withholding of federal funds from the school.Lawyers for university are seeking a motion for summary judgment to prevent the administration from withholding federal funding if the school does not comply with its list of demands.At Monday's hearing, the government is arguing that its […]

(NEW YORK) -- Pedro Hernandez, the man convicted of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz in 1979, should be retried or released, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based its decision on a flawed jury instruction given by a New York state judge about Hernandez's purported confessions.Hernandez, 64, is currently in state prison serving a sentence of 25 years to life after he was convicted […]

(NEW YORK) -- A second suspect in the weekend shooting of an off-duty United States Border Patrol agent in a New York City park has been taken into custody, authorities said on Monday.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said an accomplice of the suspect in the shooting and wounding of the off-duty Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer was detained over night.Noem did not initially identify the second person, but said […]

(TICONDEROGA, N.Y.) -- A Canadian man has been charged with murder in the death of his 9-year-old daughter in upstate New York over the weekend, authorities said on Monday.Melina Galanis Frattolin's body was found in a shallow pond on Sunday. Officials alleged that her father, Luciano Frattolin, falsely told police she had been kidnapped.Frattolin, of Montreal, allegedly killed his daughter during a vacation to the U.S., concealed her body near […]

Kevin Carter/Getty Images (SEATTLE) -- Alaska Airlines resumed operations late Sunday about three hours after having requested a ground stop for all of its flights, according to the airline and the Federal Aviation Administration."At approximately 8 p.m. Pacific on Sunday, Alaska Airlines experienced an IT outage that’s impacting our operations. We requested a temporary, system-wide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air flights until the issue is resolved," the airline […]

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images (MINOT, N.D.) -- A Delta regional jet on approach to Minot, North Dakota, made an "aggressive maneuver" to avoid a midair collision with a B-52 bomber, according to the Delta pilot."All of a sudden we just jerk really hard to the right -- we just kept taking more turns and more turns and he gets on the announcement and says, 'I'm sorry everybody, I'll explain […]

amphotora/Getty Images (SAN JOSE, Calif.) -- Federal postal investigators are investigating why a car slammed into a neighborhood post office early Sunday morning in San Jose, California.The post office building caught fire and was engulfed in flames after the car went into it.The man arrested for the incident was Richard Tillman, who is the brother of late NFL star turned U.S. Army Ranger Pat Tillman, according to San Jose Police.Richard […]

(TICONDEROGA, N.Y.) -- A 9-year-old Canadian girl whose father had reported she had been kidnapped in upstate New York was found dead Sunday afternoon, with investigators saying she had not been abducted and they were now questioning inconsistencies in her dad's story, according to authorities.The body of the girl, identified by the Warren County Sheriff's Office as Melina Galanis Frattolin, was discovered in Ticonderoga, New York, near the New York-Vermont […]

Stephanie Keith/Getty Images (LOUISVILLE, K.y.) -- The former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer convicted of a civil rights offence in relation to the death of Breonna Taylor is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in federal court.Brett Hankison was found guilty of one count of violating Taylor's civil rights after he blindly shot into Taylor's apartment in March 2020. Hankison's bullets did not hit anyone.The Department of Justice recommended that Hankison should […]