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(NEW YORK) -- At least 26 states are under alerts for snow, ice and flooding as three winter storms cross the country over the next few days.The first storm is moving into the Ohio River Valley on Tuesday with snow coming down from Paducah, Kentucky, to Evansville, Indiana; as well as in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky.A winter storm warning has been issued from Louisville to Atlantic City, New Jersey, including […]

(NEW YORK) -- As part of his plan to cut alleged federal government waste, President Donald Trump is literally pinching pennies, ordering his Treasury Secretary to stop the U.S. Mint from producing new 1-cent coins.In an announcement Sunday on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the cost of minting the coin featuring the profile of the country's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, is more than twice the currency's face value."For far […]

Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Two weeks after the Department of Justice, now under new leadership following Donald Trump's reelection, moved to dismiss their appeal of Trump's classified documents case, a circuit court formally dismissed the appeal of a case that once accused the president of mishandling some of the nation's most sensitive secrets.The dismissal marks the end of a series of federal criminal cases that once dogged […]

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (PALM BEACH, Fla.) -- An off-duty corrections officer in Florida was shot and killed in a “targeted attack,” according to police.The incident occurred at 7:32 p.m. when deputies from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office in Florida were dispatched to reports of gunfire in the 1400 block of NW Avenue D, in Belle Glade, according to a statement from the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday“The victim is […]

Airplanes sit parked at gates at Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport/Gary Hershorn/Getty Images (MIAMI) -- A New Jersey man was charged with threatening flight passengers, attendants and crew members on a flight from Miami, Florida, to Newark, New Jersey.According to the complaint, Luis Vaquero made "threats of physical violence against a disabled minor and mocking a group of Jewish passengers."It said that he also threatened a flight attendant […]

(NEW YORK) -- The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.The asteroid, discovered just after Christmas and named 2024 YR4, could strike the planet in December 2032 as it approaches during another journey around its orbit, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies.When the detection of the asteroid was announced last month, NASA predicted just […]

(BOSTON) -- A federal judge in Boston said Monday he will continue to pause the Trump administration's plan to offer a deferred resignation buyout to tens of thousands of federal employees until he issues a ruling on a preliminary injunction.Three federal employee unions -- with the support of 20 Democratic attorneys general -- have argued that the Office of Personnel Management's deferred resignation offer is an "unlawful ultimatum" to force the resignation […]

(LOUISIANA) -- Police in Louisiana said Monday they are investigating the possibility that a sports reporter who had traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl may have been drugged before his death.Adan Manzano, a reporter for KGKC Telemundo Kansas City and Tico Sports, was found dead in his hotel room in Kenner, Louisiana, on Feb. 5, police said. A cause and manner of death have not been released.A woman who […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge will hear arguments Monday on efforts by a group of California public university students to block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing highly sensitive federal student loan records maintained by the Department of Education.An organization representing more than 200,000 students enrolled in California's public universities has brought suit seeking a temporary restraining order to block DOGE from accessing the student loan records as […]