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(WASHINGTON) -- The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.The records were posted to the National Archives' website, joining recently released records posted in 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2017-2018.Most of what the government released tonight is not new -- in fact, much of what has attracted attention on social media and in news reports has […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump is lashing out again against the top federal judge of the Washington, D.C. circuit, who issued an order stopping deportation flights of alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.“If a President doesn’t have the right to throw murderers, and other criminals, out of our Country because a Radical Left Lunatic Judge wants to assume the role of President, then our Country is in very […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Federal watchdogs have raised concerns about the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic control system for decades, an ABC News analysis of government reports found.In the weeks since the fatal plane crash over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, DOT Secretary Sean Duffy said the FAA is hoping to deploy a "brand-new air traffic control system" within the next four years."This should have happened four years […]

(PALM COAST, FL) -- A toddler found wandering in the middle of a Florida street with a heavily soiled diaper ended up leading police to a home with extremely hazardous living conditions with the father passed out intoxicated in his bed, police say.The incident occurred on Sunday when the Flagler County Sheriff's Department in Florida responded to multiple emergency reports concerning a 2-year-old child “walking in the middle of the […]

Bettmann Archive/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 23 directing the release of the remaining records, saying it was in the "public interest" to do so.On Monday Trump announced to reporters that the administration would begin releasing the records on Tuesday, prompting […]

(NEW YORK) -- Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil called himself a "political prisoner" in a new letter dictated from the Louisiana detention center where he remains held following his arrest on Columbia University's campus."I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of […]

Manuel Mazzanti/NurPhoto via Getty Images (CAPE CANAVERAL, FL) -- The two NASA astronauts whose return to Earth was delayed for months have just splashed down to Earth.NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission, carrying astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, successfully landed off the coast of Florida after undocking from the International Space Station and traveling approximately 17 hours on its return mission to Earth, according to SpaceX.The splashdown occurred at […]

(NEW YORK) -- An Albany woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to mailing drug-soaked documents to inmates in correctional facilities in New York, according to federal prosecutors.Authorities said Maya McIntosh, 33, sold the illicit documents on social media -- and disguised them as legal paperwork when she sent them.McIntosh, 33, pleaded guilty to "conspiracies to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and controlled substance analogue, distribution […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Many of the noncitizens who were deported pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act on Saturday did not have criminal records, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said in a sworn filing overnight.In a sworn declaration, ICE Acting Field Office Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Robert Cerna argued that "the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose" and "demonstrates that they are terrorists with […]