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(WASHINGTON) -- As Donald Trump continues to escalate his attacks on a federal judge who has challenged whether his administration's deportations defied a court order last week, a federal appeals court on Monday will hear arguments for the first time about the president's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport more than two hundred Venezuelan migrants who the administration alleges are members of the Tren de Aragua gang.If the […]

(POLK COUNTY, N.C.) -- Evacuation orders were issued Sunday for parts of Polk County, North Carolina, where three large wildfires have burned more than 3,000 acres combined and two of the blazes remain out of control, according to authorities.The three separate fires -- the Black Cove Fire, Deep Woods Fire and the Fish Hook Fire -- were all burning about 30 miles southeast of Ashville, according to the North Carolina […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) -- One person is dead and three others are still missing after a boat capsized on St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.The Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department responded to a reported capsized vessel with multiple people in the water at 8 p.m. on Friday.Four people were pulled from the water upon arrival of first responders and four more were unaccounted for.Multiple agencies' boats, search teams, helicopters […]

(NEW YORK) -- Columbia University appears to have ceded to the Trump administration's demands after a threat to withhold $400 million in federal funds.The school posted a four-page memo entitled "Advancing Our Work to Combat Discrimination, Harassment, and Antisemitism at Columbia." Columbia's response is being closely watched by other schools that became flashpoints for pro-Palestinian protests last year.The Trump administration canceled $400 million worth of grants and contracts to Columbia […]

(NEW YORK) -- A Cornell University graduate student filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive orders aimed at going after universities and "foreign national" protesters, then he was asked to surrender to ICE.Momodou Taal, a Ph.D. student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, filed the suit on Saturday hoping to prevent the administration from targeting him and others who have participated in pro-Palestinian protests. An attorney for Taal said […]

Las Cruces Police Department (LAS CRUCES, N.M.) -- Three people were killed and 15 were injured in a shooting at a park in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Friday night, according to police.The deceased are two 19-year-old men and one 16-year-old boy. The injured range in age from 16 years to 36 years, according to a police statement to ABC News on Saturday.Police were dispatched to the shooting shortly after […]

(NEW YORK) -- Powerful winds and wildfire warnings persist in several states, with some areas still fighting existing flames, as a new cross-country storm emerges in the Pacific Northwest on Friday.Red flag warnings are in place for areas in the Southwest, including New Mexico and north-central Texas, where wind gusts will reach up to 40 mph on Friday paired with a relative humidity down to 10%.Firefighters have continued to battle the Gail […]

(NEW YORK) -- The former co-offensive coordinator for the University of Michigan's football team has been charged with hacking into thousands of athlete and alumni accounts and downloading private data, including "intimate" photos, over an eight-year span, according to federal investigators.Matthew Weiss, 42, who was also the team's quarterbacks coach, allegedly gained unauthorized access to a student-athlete database of over 100 colleges and universities, and downloaded the personally identifiable information […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Nearly a year since the catastrophic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after a container ship struck one of its piers, the National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that the owners of nearly 70 bridges across the United States conduct vulnerability assessments of the risk of collapse from a vessel collision.Such an assessment could have prevented the deadly Key Bridge collapse, NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Thursday.If […]