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(NEW YORK) -- Their brand was ultra-lux real estate, and the lifestyle to match.For more than a decade, brothers Oren and Tal Alexander built a rep of jetsetting glamour and partying at hot spots, flanked always by beautiful women.What was actually going on behind the scenes, according to federal authorities, was criminal.Along with a third brother, Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander were arrested in December 2024 on federal sex trafficking […]

(LAFAYETTE, Ind.) -- An Indiana judge and his wife were injured in a shooting at their home over the weekend, with a search underway for the suspected gunman, officials said.Tippecanoe County Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kimberly Meyer, were shot in their home on Sunday, according to Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Loretta Rush.Both are in stable condition, police said Monday.Officers responded to the home in Lafayette around 2:17 […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) -- The Justice Department said they are investigating am incident in which anti-ICE protesters disrupted a service on Sunday at a Minneapolis church where one of the pastors is an ICE official.Video posted online by Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows protesters entering Cities Church in Minneapolis, where they said one of the pastors, David Easterwood, is the acting field director of the St. Paul ICE field office.Easterwood was not […]

(NEW YORK) -- A strong geomagnetic storm could soon interact with Earth's atmosphere, bringing the potential for northern lights displays to be seen much further south in the continental U.S., according to space weather experts.A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) -- a massive burst of solar material and magnetic field from the sun's outer atmosphere -- that occurred on Sunday is expected to reach Earth within the next 24 hours, according […]

Bitter Cold - Tuesday AM Wind Chills Map. ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A brutal arctic blast is bringing dangerously low temperatures to the Plains and Midwest before it invades the Northeast.On Monday morning, the wind chill -- what temperature it feels like -- plunged to minus 30 degrees in Minneapolis; minus 27 degrees in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; minus 22 degrees in Chicago; and minus 22 degrees in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In the Windy City, wind gusts could hit 35 mph.The […]

(NEW ORLEANS) -- A man was killed, and three bystanders were wounded, in a shooting in the foyer of an iconic New Orleans restaurant, authorities said, and the gunman remains at large.The shooting occurred just after 8 p.m. Friday, when a young man was being shot at and chased down the street, New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said.The man ran into the small foyer of Dooky Chase's Restaurant to try […]

(NEW YORK) -- President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the NATO countries who have sent small contingents of troops to Greenland amid the White House’s push to acquire the island will be charged a 10% tariff on all goods sent to the United States starting on Feb. 1.The tariffs on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland will then increase to 25% on June […]

(NEW YORK) -- Two winter storms will move through the East this weekend, with cold air coming right behind it in an arctic blast forecast for next week.The first of the two storm systems will be a quick-moving, clipper system that continues to bring scattered snow showers to the Midwest and Great Lakes before bringing two rounds of snow for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic on Saturday.The first round of snow […]

(NEW YORK) -- Athletes and fans will start arriving at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan next month, but one U.S. agency has been on the ground working to ensure safety at the games.Special agents from the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) have been working with the local authorities in Italy since 2022 to secure the Winter Olympic games, according to two top officials involved in the planning.As the State […]