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(SEATTLE) -- An 82-year-old man in Seattle woke up feeling very much alive until he and his wife opened a letter from his bank stating he was deceased.Ned Johnson was mistakenly declared dead, which led to the cancellation of his Social Security benefits. It took him two months to prove the mistake, including numerous phone calls, letters to government officials and enduring a four-hour wait at his local Social Security […]

(Mike Hutmacher/Wichita Eagle/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (KANSAS) -- One traffic violation on a Kansas highway led to the miraculous rescue of a 6-year-old girl who had been kidnapped.Kansas Highway Patrol said the rescue happened after a highway trooper stopped an SUV for a traffic violation last month.During the traffic stop, the trooper discovered that the front-seat passenger had a warrant for his arrest from another state for kidnapping […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Attacks on Tesla dealerships, cars and equipment are "rudimentary" and require little planning, according to an FBI and Department of Homeland Security assessment, which says lone offenders are the ones carrying out the attacks.“These criminal actions appear to have been conducted by lone offenders, and all known incidents occurred at night, making identification and arrest of the actors difficult,” the assessment says.It comes as incendiary devices were found […]

Honolulu Police Department (HONOLULU) -- A doctor is suspected of trying to kill his wife by hitting her with a rock and attempting to push her off a hiking trail in Hawaii, according to police.Gerhardt Konig, 46, and his wife were at Pali Lookout on Oahu on Monday morning when Konig tried to push her off the trail and struck her in the head with a rock, the Honolulu Police […]

(POLK COUNTY, N.C.) -- As firefighters continued to battle three stubborn North Carolina wildfires in the same county, a breezy and dry forecast for the danger zones is threatening to spread the flames, officials said.The three fires, including two that have overlapped, are in steep, rugged terrain in Polk County that is covered with downed trees and dry vegetation left over from Hurricane Helene that swept through the area in September, authorities said.As of […]

(PIERCE COUNTY, Wash.) -- A 28-year-old woman is missing after she and her dog fell into a Washington state river, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Monday.Zuleika Witron was hiking with her girlfriend and two dogs on Sunday when she and one of the dogs fell off the Fairfax Bridge and into the Carbon River in Washington, located in Mount Rainier National Park, police said.The woman's girlfriend "witnessed her […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration is refusing to provide a federal judge with any additional information about last week's deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act, arguing the disclosure of the information would "pose reasonable danger to national security and foreign affairs."In a court filing Monday evening and in a series of sworn affidavits by three top cabinet officials, the Trump administration invoked the "state secrets privilege" to attempt to […]

Kena Betancur/VIEWpress (NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in New York will hear arguments Tuesday over whether to extend an order that prevents Columbia University from the sharing student disciplinary records of a number of pro-Palestinian activists with a House of Representatives committee.The request for an injunction was filed by a group of Columbia students and graduates, including Mahmoud Khalil, the pro-Palestinian activist detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement who […]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (HOUSTON) -- Three teenagers allegedly attacked their mom and tried to stab her with kitchen knives because she turned off the Wi-Fi, according to authorities in Texas.The three siblings -- ages 14, 15 and 16 -- "allegedly coordinated a plan to try and kill" their mother, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.Because the mom turned off the Wi-Fi, the teens allegedly grabbed kitchen knives Sunday night and […]