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(WASHINGTON) -- The shootings in December that targeted Brown University and an MIT professor were "symbolic in nature," according to a report released by the FBI.Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national and a legal permanent resident who had been living in Miami, Florida, committed a mass shooting at a building on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, before driving north to Brookline, Massachusetts, to kill an MIT professor, authorities said.Two […]

(WASHINGTON) -- Americans oppose President Donald Trump tearing down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, oppose a 250-foot arch by an even wider margin and oppose the addition of Trump’s signature to paper currency by more than 5-to-1, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.Trump’s ballroomThe Trump administration announced the construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom in July […]

(NEW YORK) -- The White House's new policy for preserving presidential records risks allowing the Trump administration to "unlawfully destroy important records," a group of Senate Democrats warned in a letter to the White House Counsel on Wednesday.Thirteen Senate Democrats are seeking assurances from the White House that it would continue to preserve presidential records, saying they had grown "deeply concerned" with recent steps the Trump administration had taken to […]

Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez is seen circa October 2024 in a photo released by the FBI. (FBI) (FLORIDA) -- A truck driver who went missing in a possible hijacking while transporting vehicles from Georgia to Florida has been found dead, the FBI said Wednesday.Alejandro Jacomino Gonzalez, 41, was last seen alive in the early morning hours on April 17 at a rest stop on I-95 south in Brevard County, Florida, according to the […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether the Trump administration has the authority to end humanitarian protections for thousands of immigrants without facing judicial review. While an unrelated ruling about the Voting Rights Act overshadowed the arguments, the court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical of the legal challenge to reverse the cancellation of temporary protected status for thousands of Haitians and Syrians. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that Congress gave the […]

(ATLANTA) -- Former Fulton County Jail detainee Rashaad Muhammad detailed what he said was a harrowing experience being held at the Atlanta, Georgia, facility from August 2025 to February of this year.After being arrested on Aug. 11, the 33-year-old -- who used a cane to walk and took medication regularly for a blood condition -- alleged at a press conference last Friday that he was repeatedly denied medical care as his […]

E. Jean Carroll arrives for her civil defamation trial against President Donald Trump at Manhattan Federal Court on January 25, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump's request to rehear his challenges to the writer E. Jean Carroll's successful defamation and sex assault claims.Carroll successfully argued during a nine-day trial in 2023 that Trump sexually abused […]

(NEW YORK) -- Against the backdrop of polls showing declining Democratic support for Israel -- especially among young voters -- the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's support for candidates is under intense scrutiny and is becoming a dividing line in contentious Democratic primaries from Michigan to New Jersey.A poll released earlier this month by the Pew Research Center shows that Americans' views toward Israel are trending negative, especially among Democrats.The […]

(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Army special forces soldier who was indicted last week on charges of using classified information about the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to make more than $400,000 on the prediction market Polymarket pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Manhattan federal court and was released on bond.Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke appeared in the same courthouse complex where Maduro appeared following the raid on his […]