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ABC News Illustration (NEW YORK) -- Two major winter storms are bearing down on the U.S. this week and are expected to bring some of the highest snow totals of the season for cities including Chicago and Washington, D.C.The first storm, which spans from Colorado to Delaware, will hit Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning.By 7 a.m. ET Tuesday, heavy rain is expected from Dallas to Nashville, Tennessee, while snow will […]

(AUSTIN, Texas) -- An American Airlines flight was delayed last week after the crew alerted authorities about suspicious activity on the plane "regarding the name of a WiFi hotspot involving the word 'bomb.'"American Airlines Flight 2863 was scheduled to travel from Austin, Texas, to Charlotte, North Carolina, with a planned departure time of 1:42 p.m.Bruce Steen, 63 years old, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was one of the passengers aboard the […]

(BOSTON) -- A federal judge in Boston Monday will consider whether to block President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk from carrying out their unprecedented plan to buy out tens of thousands of federal employees.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 of government […]

More than 15 million people across a large portion of the nation were under winter storm alerts on Super Bowl Sunday morning, with many digging out from snow left by the first of three storms forecast to slam the U.S. through Thursday.Snow was continuing to fall in upper New England on Sunday morning, with Boston expecting to get a total of 6 to 8 inches of snow from the weekend […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- California's Central Valley is considered "America's bread basket," supplying a quarter of the nation's food and producing 40% of its fruits, nuts and other table foods.However, roughly half of California's farm workers are undocumented immigrants, so President Donald Trump's plan to fast track mass deportation and the images of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the country have spread fear on these farms.It started shortly before […]

(WASHINGTON) -- In classrooms across the country, children of immigrants are facing heightened fears over news that immigration enforcement officers are now allowed to enter schools, according to educators.While it's unclear if immigration raids have actually taken place in schools, the lifting of the prohibition itself by the Trump administration and the highly publicized enforcement activities elsewhere have triggered anxieties in the classroom, educators say.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from orchestrating its plan to place 2,200 employees of the United States Agency for International Development on leave at midnight.In an order late Friday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols -- a Trump appointee -- issued a temporary restraining that prevents Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency from placing the employees on administrative leave as had been planned. The judge also […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge, in a ruling late Friday evening, has denied an effort to block the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data from the Department of Labor.In his ruling, federal Judge John D. Bates found that the five federal employee unions that alleged Elon Musk's cost-cutting team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data, including medical records, failed to establish standing."Although the Court harbors concerns about […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The decades-long wait for the release of the government's secret files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy could be nearing an end, with word from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that a plan to make the documents public has been delivered to the White House under an order from President Trump."In accordance with the President's executive order, ODNI submitted its plan to […]