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(NEW YORK) -- Outside a nondescript building in downtown Manhattan, Ambar was pleading to God and immigration authorities that her husband Jaen would not walk out the doors of the Elk Street facility in handcuffs."It's the only thing I ask of God and them, to have mercy for his family. I don't have anyone else. I'm alone with my daughter, I don't want to be separated from him," Ambar told […]

(PHOENIX) -- A 9-year-old boy allegedly accidentally shot and killed his 5-year-old sister with their father's AR-style rifle, according to police and court documents.Their father, 33-year-old Irvin Ramos-Jimenez, told police he was out front of his Phoenix home Tuesday night when he heard a loud bang inside, according to the probable cause statement. He said he ran into his son’s room where he found his daughter with a gunshot wound […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- A wrongly deported Guatemalan man has been returned to the United States, marking the first time the Trump administration has brought back a deportee based on a judge's order.The man, who was wrongly deported to Mexico, was returned to the U.S. on Wednesday, according to his lawyer.The return of the man, identified in court filings as O.C.G., is the first instance in which the Trump administration, in […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (PHOENIX) -- A 9-year-old boy allegedly shot and killed his 5-year-old sister by accident in their Phoenix home, police said.The 5-year-old girl was pronounced dead at a local trauma center after the incident on Tuesday night, Phoenix police said.The rifle used in the shooting belonged to the children's father, 33-year-old Irvin Ramos-Jimenez, police said. Ramos-Jimenez has been arrested for possession of a weapon by a prohibited person, […]

National Park Service (SEATTLE) -- The body of a 41-year-old ski mountaineer has been recovered after he fell over 3,000 feet off of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, officials said.Alex Chiu of Seattle, Washington, was on the Mount McKinley West Buttress climbing route on the Peters Glacier when he fell on Monday, according to a statement from the National Park Service.“On Monday, June 2, the other two […]

(GASTONIA, N.C.) -- The parents of a 7-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a car while trying to cross a street in North Carolina have been charged with manslaughter and remain in jail on $1.5 million bond, police said.The child was hit by a Jeep Cherokee on May 27 in Gastonia, located west of Charlotte, police said.He was attempting to cross the street outside of a crosswalk with a […]

(BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine) -- A man and his daughter were found dead following an extensive, dayslong search after they went missing while attempting to hike to the summit of Mount Katahdin in Maine, officials said.Tim Keiderling and Esther Keiderling, both of Ulster Park, New York, set out to hike the summit on Sunday, according to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife.They were last seen Sunday morning on the […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Education sent a warning to the accreditor of Columbia University on Wednesday, saying the Ivy League institution violated federal anti-discrimination laws.U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a press release that the decision came after the spate of protests on university grounds opposing the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.McMahon alleged Columbia leadership "acted with deliberate indifference towards the harassment of Jewish students on its […]

(PALM SPRINGS, Calif.) -- The FBI has arrested a co-conspirator in last month's car bombing outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic, with officials saying he provided large quantities of ammonium nitrate to the suspect killed in the blast.Daniel Park has been charged with conspiracy to manufacture an unregistered device and terrorism, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California. Park was arrested Tuesday night at John F. […]