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(WASHINGTON) -- The federal judge overseeing the wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on Wednesday denied a motion from the Trump administration to further delay discovery in the case.The order came a week after the judge paused expedited discovery for seven days after the Trump administration asked her for the stay.The judge, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, earlier this month slammed the administration over its inaction over Abrego Garcia's wrongful detention and ordered […]

(NEW YORK) -- The 9/11 health program that monitors and treats thousands of people exposed to toxic dust during the 2001 terrorist attack is under threat — again.A wave of staffing cuts and agency turmoil has thrown the World Trade Center Health Program into crisis, disrupting a system that has provided life-saving care to tens of thousands of people for more than two decades.Experts warn that cancer diagnoses could be delayed, […]

(PITTSBURGH) -- Four people have died in Pennsylvania as severe storms hammered much of the U.S. on Tuesday night.A long-lived destructive thunderstorm wind event, known as a derecho, traveled more than 500 miles from eastern Indiana through central Pennsylvania on Tuesday afternoon. Wind gusts reached 80 mph as the more than 60-mile-wide storm complex knocked down trees and power lines along its destructive path.In Franklin Township in eastern Pennsylvania, high […]

(SYRACUSE, N.Y.) -- The district attorney in Syracuse, New York, is giving a group of high school students 48 hours to turn themselves in for an alleged hazing incident that he describes as a "criminal matter.""I cannot really adequately express to this community the level of stupidity and lack of judgement involved in this case," Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick said during a press conference on Tuesday.Fitzpatrick said he […]

(NEWARK, Del.) -- A University of Delaware student was killed and several other people were injured when a U-Haul truck driver fled from police and collided with people near campus, officials said.On Tuesday afternoon, officers in a parking lot spotted a U-Haul truck that had been reported Monday "as an unauthorized use vehicle" after it was rented but was not returned when due last month, Newark police said.As officers moved […]

(COLCHESTER, Vt.) -- A federal judge in Vermont ordered the release Wednesday of Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia University student who was arrested two weeks ago by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following his citizenship interview, while his case proceeds."The two weeks of detention so far demonstrate great harm to a person who has been charged with no crime," U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford said at a hearing Wednesday. "Mr. Mahdawi, I will […]

Adam Gray/Getty Images (COLCHESTER, Vt.) -- Attorneys for Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who was arrested two weeks ago by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following his citizenship interview, are expected to argue in a hearing Wednesday that he should be released while his deportation case proceeds.Mahdawi, who co-founded a university organization called the Palestinian Student Union with detained Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil, was born and raised in a refugee […]

Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors said no one from the state or federal government eavesdropped on a jailhouse phone conversation between accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione and his lawyer.Defense attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo claimed at a court appearance last week that prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office had been "eavesdropping" on a call after federal prosecutors provided them with a recording.Judge Margaret Garnett asked for […]

(MADISON, WI) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan after she was arrested by the FBI and charged last week for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, an order from the court shows."The court has learned that Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah C. Dugan has been charged with two federal criminal offenses, one of which is a felony and one of […]