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(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an injunction against the Trump administration's efforts to gut the Department of Education.The move allows the administration to proceed, for now, with mass firings that slashed nearly half of the agency's workforce in March as well as other actions, such as shifting management of the federal student loan portfolio.A federal judge in Massachusetts had barred the administration from moving forward, rejecting the […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday that he will actively stay in the New York City mayoral race, but that he will accept a pledge to abide by the results of a proposed September poll, where he and other candidates would drop out if they aren't leading."The fight to save our city isn't over… The general election is in November, and I am in […]

Clackamas County Sheriff's Office (CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore.) -- An avid mountain biker has been reported missing in Oregon after not returning from a planned biking trip near Mount Hood on Friday, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office.Ralph Sawyer, 52, was reported missing on Friday at approximately 10:30 p.m. after he had left home that morning for a mountain biking trip and had not returned home at the expected time […]

(NEW YORK) -- A marketing professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was "murdered in cold blood" while visiting his children in Greece, according to his family.Przemyslaw Jeziorski, an associate marketing professor at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, was allegedly shot and killed in Athens on July 4 near the home where his two children -- Zoe and Angelo -- live, his younger brother Lukasz Jeziorski said in a […]

(FALL RIVER, Mass.) -- Nine people have been killed and dozens are hurt as a fire tore through an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said.About 50 firefighters, including about 30 who were off duty, descended on the scene of the Sunday night fire at the Gabriel House assisted-living facility, officials said.Some people were rescued through their windows at the hard-to-access building, Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said.Thirty […]

(FALL RIVER, Mass.) -- Nine people have been killed and dozens are hurt as a fire tore through an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, officials said.At least 30 people, including five firefighters, were transported to local hospitals after the Sunday night blaze at the Gabriel House assisted-living facility, Fall River Fire Chief Jeffrey Bacon said."The fire went to five alarms, drawing about 50 firefighters to the scene, including about […]

(NORTH RIM, Ariz.) -- The Grand Canyon Lodge was one of dozens of structures destroyed in a fast-moving wildfire in Arizona over the weekend, the National Park Service (NPS) confirmed.The lodge, which sits on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, first opened in 1937 and is listed as a National Historic Landmark. It is the only in-park lodging option in that region of the park.The fire, dubbed by […]

BUTLER, Pa. -- Senate Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul released a final report Sunday on the committee's findings from its investigation into the assassination attempt by Thomas Crooks targeting then-candidate Donald Trump, marking one year since the events in Butler, Pennsylvania.The report has few new details and is largely a rehashing of information that was already known about the shooting. It largely mirrors a preliminary report […]

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Two women were shot and killed at a Kentucky church by a suspect who fled there after allegedly shooting a state trooper elsewhere, according to officials.A suspect allegedly shot a Kentucky State Police trooper near the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, KY, and then fled to a church, where the suspect shot four people before police shot and killed the suspect, officials said at a Lexington Police […]