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(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department's failure this week to convince a grand jury to hand up an indictment against six members of Congress is the latest stumbling block faced by prosecutors as they seek to rebuke the administration's perceived political opponents.The U.S. attorney's office in Washington, D.C., was unable to secure an indictment against six congressmembers after President Donald Trump called for them to be arrested and tried for posting a video on social […]

Crime scene tape (mbbirdy/Getty Images) (ORANGEBURG, S.C.) -- Two people were killed and one person was wounded after a shooting Thursday night on the campus of South Carolina State University, the school said.The shooting, which was reported in an apartment at the Hugine Suites student residential complex on the Orangeburg campus, prompted a campus lockdown that remained in place hours after the shooting, according to a news release from the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has walked back a landmark environmental decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.Calling it "the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history," the EPA announced Thursday that it was "eliminating both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and all subsequent federal GHG emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond."For more than […]

(BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- Nearly four years after 10 Black people were gunned down in a racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, the victims' families have reached a settlement with the firearms accessory company listed as a defendant in the case.The Georgia-based manufacturer Mean Arms has agreed to pay $1.75 to settle a lawsuit filed in 2023, accusing the company of providing online instructions on how to […]

(NEW YORK) -- A group of New York politicians, city leaders and LGBTQ+ advocates are expected to gather at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City on Thursday afternoon to re-raise the pride flag after the National Park Service removed it from federal grounds last weekend.The group gathered at the Stonewall National Monument on Thursday morning and called on the NPS, which is overseen by the U.S. Department of the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Environmental Protection Agency is walking back a landmark environmental decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.For more than 16 years, the EPA’s endangerment finding served as the scientific and legal foundation for federal regulations on carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The 2009 decision found that certain greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The regulations that resulted cover everything from vehicle tailpipe emissions […]

In an aerial view Salvadorian armed forces stand guard outside CECOT (Counter Terrorism Confinement Center) where thousands of accused gang members are imprisoned on December 15, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. John Moore/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of the Venezuelan migrants who were were deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison last year in violation of a court order.Boasberg on […]

U.S. President Donald Trump gaggles with reporters while aboard Air Force One on February 6, 2026 en route to Palm Beach, Florida. Samuel Corum/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The fight over the Trump administration's appointment of U.S. attorneys has taken another turn with the Justice Department's firing of a newly appointed U.S. attorney in Northern New York.After the DOJ's appointment of acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III ran out, a court on Wednesday appointed Donald […]

(CHICAGO) -- Last October, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that federal agents in Chicago were "forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen" after their SUV was "rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars."But analysis of recently released body-camera footage of the shooting of Marimar Martinez and videos verified by nearby businesses and bystanders suggests that those claims were exaggerated -- […]