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(WASHINGTON) -- Speaker Mike Johnson met Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump and House Republicans holding out against voting for the Senate-approved budget bill to fund Trump's agenda, according to a top GOP leadership aide.GOP leaders are again relying on Trump to help get the bill across the finish line this week before the House takes a two-week recess.Johnson has promised to pass the Senate's amendment to the House […]

(FRISCO, Texas) -- The family of a 17-year-old student charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of another student at a high school track meet last week is "sincerely saddened" over the death, the teen's attorneys said in their first public statement since the incident.The incident occurred on April 2 at a Frisco Independent School District stadium during a track and field championship involving multiple schools in the district.Austin Metcalf, […]

(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago man was charged in connection to a series of sex crimes targeting women at least five times over the past three years, according to the Chicago Police Department.Chakib Mansour Khodja, a 36-year-old Jefferson Park resident, was charged with 16 felonies and two misdemeanors on Monday, including aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated kidnapping while armed, home invasion with a dangerous weapon and public indecency […]

Newsday via Getty Images, FILE (SELDEN, N.Y.) -- A 15-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly fatally stabbing his grandmother and injuring his mother in Selden, New York, according to police.Vanessa Chendemi was allegedly stabbed by her son at about 9:45 p.m. Monday after which she ran out of her house and a passing motorist stopped to offer assistance, the Suffolk County Police Department said. Upon arriving at the scene, […]

Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, in El Salvador; Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has canceled a Tuesday afternoon hearing on the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members without due process, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday evening that the administration could resume carrying out such deportations.Boasberg had scheduled the hearing to consider whether to convert the […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- The flooding danger isn't over in the wake of four days of deadly storms that devastated the central U.S. with catastrophic rainfall and destructive tornadoes.For Andy Beshear, governor of hard-hit Kentucky, the biggest concern is people driving through water and around barricades."We need people to wait this out," he said at a news conference Tuesday.Twenty-three people have died since Wednesday from the storms, with the fatalities spanning Kentucky, Tennessee, […]

Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in Tecoluca, in El Salvador; Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has canceled a Tuesday afternoon hearing on the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members without due process, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday evening that the administration could resume carrying out such deportations.Boasberg had scheduled the hearing to consider […]

(FRANKFORT, Ky.) -- The mother of a 9-year-old boy is speaking out after he was swept away and killed by floodwaters in Kentucky during the four days of historic storms that pounded the region.Gabriel Andrews was swept away by the floodwaters on Friday morning while walking to his school bus stop in hard-hit Frankfort, according to the Franklin County Coroner’s Office.Gabriel, who enjoyed basketball and football, "had the most beautiful […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The student visas of five individuals currently attending or recently graduated from Harvard University have been revoked, according to Harvard.It's one of more than a dozen higher education institutions that is actively tracking and reporting the number of affiliated people who have been targeted by President Donald Trump's administration in recent weeks.These incidents are part of what appears to be mass targeting of international students by Trump's administration […]