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(NEW YORK) -- A record number of Americans are expected to travel for Thanksgiving this year, AAA said.AAA predicts 81.8 million people will travel during the holiday period (between Tuesday, Nov. 25, and Monday, Dec. 1), which is a 1.6 million jump from last year.Thanksgiving -- which falls on Thursday, Nov. 27 -- comes just weeks after the 43-day-long government shutdown that caused massive flight cancellations across the country, but […]

(WASHINGTON) -- In the wake of the newly released Epstein files last week, President Donald Trump ordered an investigation into Democrats mentioned in the files -- including LinkedIn co-founder and major Democrat donor Reid Hoffman.On Tuesday, when pressed by ABC News' Mary Bruce, Trump lashed out about the files, saying Democrats should face scrutiny. Specifically, he called out Hoffman by name, saying, "Hoffman, in my opinion, should be under investigation.""He's […]

Alex Peña/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in a hearing Wednesday, is set to address how he will proceed with the early stages of contempt proceedings into whether Trump administration officials violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act in March.The Trump administration invoked the AEA -- an 18th-century wartime authority used to remove noncitizens with little-to-no due […]

(MIAMI) -- Megan Thee Stallion is expected to take the witness stand at a federal courthouse in Miami in connection with a defamation lawsuit that the hip-hop star filed in October 2024 against Milagro Cooper, a social media commentator and blogger known as "Milagro Gramz."Megan Thee Stallion, whose legal name is Megan Pete, alleges in the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida, that Cooper […]

Alex Edelman/Getty Images (LAREDO, Texas.) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized an estimated $2.6 million of alleged methamphetamine hidden inside of a tractor trailer hauling batteries, officials said.“The bad guys got a bit of a shock this weekend,” according to a statement from the CBP, when packages containing approximately 291 pounds of methamphetamine were discovered by officers at Colombia-Solidarity Bridge in Laredo, Texas.“Our frontline CBP officers maintained strict […]

President Donald Trump signs funding legislation to reopen the US government, November 12, 2025, in the Oval Office of the White House, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history. (Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) -- According to the official White House government shutdown clock, the historic impasse ended on Tuesday.While the federal government shutdown actually ended a week ago, the White House's shutdown clock continued to tick on Tuesday until it […]

Chicago police car is seen in Chicago, United States, on October 14, 2022. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (CHICAGO) -- A man set a woman on fire while on a Chicago L train on Monday following a "verbal altercation," leaving her in critical condition, authorities said.A person of interest is in custody in connection with the incident, the Chicago Police Department said Tuesday.The arson attack occurred Monday at […]

(BALTIMORE) -- The cargo ship that rammed into Baltimore's Key Bridge in March 2024, shortly after experiencing two blackouts, initially lost power due to an improperly installed wire, the National Transportation Safety Board revealed on Tuesday.The NTSB further found safety issues related to the Dali's machinery and electrical systems that prevented the ship from fully recovering following the initial blackout, the agency said.The Dali, a Singaporean vessel, struck one of the […]

(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge in New York on Tuesday sentenced Mohamed Bahi, the only member of Mayor Eric Adams' administration convicted in an illegal donations scheme, to three years' probation, including the first year under home confinement, after the Trump Justice Department forced the same judge to dismiss a criminal case against the mayor himself that involved the same scheme.The sentence is less than prosecutors sought but the judge […]