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(SPOKANE, Wash.) --A 40-year-old man attacked a priest during a church service in Spokane, Washington, on Tuesday night, according to officials.Around 350 to 400 people had gathered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes in downtown Spokane on Tuesday for the second night of novena, a tradition of gathering for prayer for nine days or nine weeks, when the man, identified as Joshua James Sommers, allegedly attacked the priest.Security camera footage […]

(WASHINGTON) -- At the U.S. Agency for International Development this week, as a team from the Department of Government Efficiency quietly worked to dismantle the aid agency, those who hadn't already been locked out of its Washington headquarters busied themselves with work they never imagined doing -- shutting it down."We feel like it's closing time at the store and we're the ones left to turn off the lights," one career official told […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Friday will consider issuing a temporary restraining order to block the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development, the embattled agency that handles foreign aid, disaster relief and international development programs.Two foreign service unions are suing the federal government as the Trump administration attempts to reduce USAID's workforce from 14,000 to only 300 employees.The American Foreign Service Organization and the American Federation of Government Employees filed […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Friday will consider blocking the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing records from the Department of Labor after a lawsuit alleged that Elon Musk's cost-cutting team sought to illegally access highly sensitive data, including medical information, from the federal government.Five federal unions alleged that DOGE employees are breaking the law by seeking to access sensitive records from the Department of Labor, including the "most […]

RJ Sangosti/MediaNews/The Denver Post via Getty Images (DENVER) -- Two federal law enforcement sources briefed on Wednesday morning's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)-led raids in seven locations across Denver tell ABC News that the operation yielded the arrest of just one alleged gang member. Twenty-nine people were also detained, sources told ABC News.ICE previously said on Wednesday that "100+ members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were targeted […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Justice Department and attorneys representing a group of FBI employees who sued over a list compiled of personnel who worked on cases stemming from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol reached a temporary deal Friday to ensure the list won't be released publicly pending further legal proceedings.The agreement by the Justice Department states "the government will not disseminate the list ... to the public, directly […]

(NEW YORK) -- Luxury real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, along with their brother Alon, on Friday pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to drug and sexually assault dozens of women nearly two months after their arrest.The three Alexander brothers arrived in Manhattan federal court together in handcuffs, shackles and drab beige jail clothing.They pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges in their first court appearance in […]

(GREENCASTLE, Pa.) -- The CEO of Pete and Gerry’s Eggs is speaking out after 100,000 eggs mysteriously disappeared from one of its facilities in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, last weekend.In an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America," Tom Flocco said the egg firm, which contracts with over 300 farms across the country, is going to boost security measures after 8,000 cartons — worth $40,000 — were stolen from the back of a distribution trailer […]

aviation-images.com/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NOME, Alaska) -- Crews in Nome, Alaska, are conducting search-and-rescue operations after a Bering Air caravan with 10 people aboard went missing, according to local authorities.Bering Air Flight 445, a Cessna 208B, disappeared while flying from Unalakleet Airport to Nome Airport around 3:20 p.m. local time Thursday, the Federal Aviation Administration said."The aircraft was 12 miles offshore transiting from Unalakleet to Nome when its […]