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Kevin Carter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court a second time to urgently lift U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's temporary restraining order blocking the deportations of alleged Tren de Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act."Only this Court can stop rule-by-TRO from further upending the separation of powers -- the sooner, the better," Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote in an emergency application […]

James Carbone/Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann and his estranged wife, Asa Ellerup, have reached a divorce settlement, according to court records.Ellerup filed for divorce shortly after Heuermann was arrested in July 2023.The terms of the divorce settlement, filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court Thursday night, are not public. A judge will review the settlement and must sign off on the divorce to make […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to preserve the contents of the chat in which top national security officials used the Signal app to discuss military strikes in Yemen as they were taking place earlier this month.U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the top cabinet officials named in a lawsuit by the government transparency group American Oversight to retain any messages sent and received over Signal between March […]

(NEW YORK) -- Stephanie Gonzalez says she and her family have endured "heartbreak" since the deportation of her parents, 55-year-old Gladys and 59-year-old Nelson Gonzalez."They really did not deserve to be treated as criminals," Stephanie Gonzalez, 27, told ABC News on Wednesday, describing how she and her sisters, 23-year-old Gabriella and 33-year-old Jessica, have been "devastated" as their parents, who possess no criminal records and have lived in the United […]

(NEW YORK) -- Some U.S. states could be treated to a northern lights display thanks to a minor geomagnetic storm on the sun, according to space forecasts.Another round of aurora borealis is expected on Thursday night, with a predicted Kp index of magnitude four out of nine, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center.The northernmost states in the U.S. have the highest chances of […]

(TUSCALOOSA, Ala.) -- Federal immigration agents have detained a University of Alabama doctoral student who is a citizen of Iran, according to the school and ICE records.Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from Iran studying mechanical engineering, is currently being held in a detention facility, but ICE records do not list where he is being held.The reason for his detention was not immediately clear."The University of Alabama recently learned that a […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Organizations that provide legal aid to migrant children have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after the agency cut funding to the program that provides legal representation to tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors.According to the lawsuit filed on Thursday, some of the groups that received federal grants have had to stop taking on new clients and "face the real threat of not being […]

Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- One day after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal restrictions on ghost guns, prosecutors in New York are warning 3D-printing companies their "insufficient security measures" are causing a "troubling rise in access to unregulated weaponry."The warning came in a letter Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg sent Thursday to Creality 3D Technology Co. and other 3D-printing companies that asks them […]

Graeme Sloan for The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A document unsealed Tuesday from the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams may raise questions about the testimony of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during his Senate confirmation hearing.During the hearing, Blanche was asked about the Justice Department's decision to drop the corruption charges against Adams."What I just saw with the dismissal of the Adams […]