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(NEW YORK) -- As Khelin Marcano was preparing for her routine scheduled appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December, she debated packing a bag full of her 1-year-old daughter's clothes. While she and her husband had been attending appointments without issue, she knew others were being detained at government buildings by immigration authorities."When they told us we were being detained, it felt like we already knew, all along," Marcano […]

(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago teen who fought for her father's release from immigration detention while she was battling stage 4 cancer, has died, a representative for her family says.Ofelia Torres died Friday at age 16, according to the family representative. The cause of death was metastatic alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma -- a rare and aggressive form of cancer.Torres grabbed the national spotlight last fall after her undocumented father, Ruben Torres-Maldonado, was detained […]

(NEW YORK) -- Severe weather is headed to the deep South, from Texas to Mississippi, with damaging winds, possible tornadoes and some large hail forecast.A powerful storm system will move out of the Rockies on Saturday and will bring the severe weather across the deep South.Storms will move into Dallas, Texas, late Saturday morning, with some gusty winds and very heavy rain.The storms will move through Houston between 7 and […]

Journalist Don Lemon arrives with his legal team for an arraignment hearing at the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on February 13, 2026 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) (ST. PAUL, Minn.) -- Former CNN journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty on Friday to federal civil rights charges in connection with an incident in which anti-ICE protesters disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.Lemon […]

Brianna Arango is seen in an undated photo released by the Southern Methodist University Police Department. Southern Methodist University Police Department (DALLAS) -- A missing Texas college student has been found safe, police said Friday.Brianna Arango, 21, a student at Southern Methodist University, was reported missing on Thursday, according to police.A family member contacted SMU Police at approximately 3:30 p.m. Thursday to report that Arango did not meet with them […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that two of its officers appear to have made "untruthful statements" about shooting a migrant in Minnesota and may face federal charges for their actions."Today, a joint review by ICE and the Department of Justice (DOJ) of video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements," Acting ICE Director Todd […]

New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs attends his arraignment hearing at Dedham District Court on February 13, 2026. (David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) (DEDHAM, Mass.) -- New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs was arraigned on charges of strangulation Friday morning.The charges stem from a December 2025 incident in which he allegedly assaulted a private chef. Diggs did not speak at the hearing, but his attorney entered […]

(FAIRFAX, Va.) -- Brazilian au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães, who went along with former IRS agent Brendan Banfield in a northern Virginia double murder plot, was sentenced to to 10 years in prison with two years of probation.  On Friday morning, Fairfax County Judge Penney Azcarate decided to give the 25-year-old the maximum sentence, which was up to 10 years on a manslaughter charge for which she pleaded guilty in 2024."Your actions were […]

(WASHINGTON) -- More than two dozen Senate Democrats are launching an independent investigation into the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a rule change on how the agency calculates the health benefits from curbing air pollution.The EPA wrote in its regulatory impact analysis last month that it would no longer apply a dollar value to the health benefits that result from its regulations for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone because the agency says there’s too […]