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(WASHINGTON) -- The Environmental Protection Agency is walking back a landmark environmental decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.For more than 16 years, the EPA’s endangerment finding served as the scientific and legal foundation for federal regulations on carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The 2009 decision found that certain greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The regulations that resulted cover everything from vehicle tailpipe emissions […]

In an aerial view Salvadorian armed forces stand guard outside CECOT (Counter Terrorism Confinement Center) where thousands of accused gang members are imprisoned on December 15, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. John Moore/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of the Venezuelan migrants who were were deported to El Salvador's CECOT prison last year in violation of a court order.Boasberg on […]

U.S. President Donald Trump gaggles with reporters while aboard Air Force One on February 6, 2026 en route to Palm Beach, Florida. Samuel Corum/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The fight over the Trump administration's appointment of U.S. attorneys has taken another turn with the Justice Department's firing of a newly appointed U.S. attorney in Northern New York.After the DOJ's appointment of acting U.S. Attorney John Sarcone III ran out, a court on Wednesday appointed Donald […]

(CHICAGO) -- Last October, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that federal agents in Chicago were "forced to deploy their weapons and fire defensive shots at an armed US citizen" after their SUV was "rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars."But analysis of recently released body-camera footage of the shooting of Marimar Martinez and videos verified by nearby businesses and bystanders suggests that those claims were exaggerated -- […]

(PHOENIX, Ariz.) -- The man who was detained and released after being questioned in connection with the abduction of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy Guthrie, says it was “terrifying.”The man, who said he works in Tucson and delivers packages for a living, said he was detained in a traffic stop in Rio Rico, according to ABC Phoenix affiliate station KNXV, which spoke to him after his encounter with law […]

(EL PASO, Texas) -- Flight restrictions put in place and then lifted for El Paso, Texas, by the Federal Aviation Administration were taken as a preemptive measure by the agency amid a potential operation by military drones in the area, a source told ABC News. The FAA said in a statement that there is no threat to commercial aviation. All flights will resume as normal.Hours after issuing the flight restrictions, the FAA published […]

A sign at the El Paso International Airport (ELP) on December 25, 2025 in El Paso, Texas. (Kirby Lee/Getty Images) (EL PASO, Texas) -- The Federal Aviation Administration issued temporary flight restrictions over El Paso, Texas, and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, prohibiting all flight operations there for the next 10 days for "special security reasons," according to a notice.The notice said no flights could operate beginning early Wednesday within a […]

(NEW YORK) -- The National Parks Service (NPS) removed the rainbow flag that sat on a flagpole inside the Stonewall National Monument near Christopher Park in New York City's Greenwich Village.The site was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama in June, 2016, becoming the first federal monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights.The communications office for NPS, which is overseen by the Department of the Interior, confirmed the removal of […]

(NEW YORK) -- The National Parks Service (NPS) removed the rainbow flag that sat on a flagpole inside the Stonewall National Monument near Christopher Park in New York City's Greenwich Village.The site was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama in June, 2016, becoming the first federal monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights.The communications office for NPS, which is overseen by the Department of the Interior, confirmed the removal of […]