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(NEW YORK) -- An IT specialist employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested Thursday and charged with attempting to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government, the Justice Department announced.The FBI said it began an investigation into 28-year-old Nathan Laatsch in March after receiving a tip he offered to provide classified information to a foreign government because -- according to the tipster -- Laatsch did not "agree or […]

(NEW YORK) -- One year ago today, a jury of 12 New Yorkers convicted Donald Trump for falsifying business records as part of an alleged hush money scheme to influence the 2016 election.The conviction left an indelible mark on Trump -- making him the first president or former president to be found guilty of a crime -- and his fight to erase that legacy continues to this day.On June 11, […]

(EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.) -- In a stunning repeat of a February incident, a vehicle crashed into the Clay-Ray Veterans Memorial Hall in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, on Wednesday morning, damaging the same section of roof that had only recently been repaired.The organization expressed its disbelief on Facebook, posting "Here we go AGAIN!!Round #2" shortly after the incident.Emergency crews responded to 208 Veterans Memorial Drive just before 7:30 a.m., where they found a vehicle […]

(NEW ORLEANS, La) -- The reward for the arrest of the two remaining inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail this month has more than doubled to $50,000, authorities announced on Thursday, as police said they believe they are closing in on the "dangerous" fugitives.Antoine Massey and Derrick Groves are among 10 inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on May 16, according to Louisiana State Police.In the nearly […]

(BOSTON) -- A Harvard graduate student has described a "devastating" atmosphere of uncertainty on campus as the Trump administration appears to intensify its efforts to restrict international students at the prestigious university."It's definitely been a roller-coaster ride," said Fangzhou Jiang, who has one semester remaining in his master's program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Over the last week, everybody was really panicking about whether they should stay in the […]

(WALKER, Iowa) -- More than 40 years after a 24-year-old man was killed in rural Iowa, a suspect has now been arrested in connection to his murder through DNA research, according to the Linn County Sheriff's Department.Michael Schappert, 64, was arrested on Wednesday for the 1983 murder of Ronald Lee Novak, who was brutally killed on Dec. 23, 1983, in rural Walker, Iowa, officials announced on Wednesday.At the time of […]

(HOMER, Alaska) -- A family that went missing on a boat trip in Alaska has finally been found after nine months of searching, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.The Maynard family, including a mother and father and their two children, went missing in August 2024 on a boat excursion in Kachemak Bay near Homer, Alaska Wildlife Troopers said. The family was on a 28-foot aluminum boat with four […]

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Ahead of a federal hearing over Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, the acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a letter Thursday giving the school 30 days to challenge the administration's revocation of that certification.The letter formally notifies the school that its Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification would be withdrawn -- but backtracks from the administration's earlier stance by giving Harvard 30 […]

(CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- As thousands of Harvard University students and their families gather this morning for commencement, a legal battle that could affect the school's future is playing out a few miles away in a Boston federal courthouse.A federal judge set a hearing Thursday morning to decide whether to extend an order blocking the Trump administration from stripping Harvard of its ability to enroll international students.In an escalation of Trump's […]