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(WASHINGTON) -- A day after a highly anticipated Oval Office meeting in which the president of El Salvador said he would not return a wrongly deported Maryland man being held in his country, the federal judge who ordered his return will hear from Trump administration attorneys at a court hearing Tuesday afternoon.Kilmar Abrego Garcia is entering his second month in an El Salvador mega-prison after he was deported there on […]

Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (NASHVILLE) -- A man is at large after allegedly stabbing his estranged wife to death outside the elementary school where she worked, Nashville police said.Niurka Alfonso-Acevedo, 52, was attacked Monday morning outside Chadwell Elementary when she arrived for her custodian job, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The stabbing occurred before students had arrived for the school day, police said.Detectives believe her estranged husband, 54-year-old […]

Jeenah Moon-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The sequel to the biggest victory of the #MeToo era starts Tuesday when disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein is retried in New York for alleged sex crimes.It could take five days to seat a jury, Judge Curtis Farber has said.A jury in the same courthouse convicted Weinstein in 2020 of sex assault before New York's highest court overturned the conviction, deciding the judge had […]

(NEW YORK) -- The rotor of the helicopter from last week's deadly crash has been retrieved from the Hudson River, four days after the devastating accident that killed all six people on board, according to a statement from the National Transportation Safety Board.The recovery of the rotor system included the transmission and the roof beam, the NTSB said on Monday night, adding: "They also recovered the tail rotor system."The main […]

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (MINNETONKA, Minn.) -- An individual was arrested near UnitedHealthcare's headquarters in Minnesota on Monday after officials said they "issued threats of violence" directed at the facility, but stressed the person had no "specific grievances" with the company.The suspect contacted the FBI Minneapolis Field Office at approximately 10:47 a.m. to issue the threats "if specific demands were not met," the FBI and Minnetonka Police Department said in a […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (TUSCON, Ariz.) -- Two people have been rescued in separate incidents after being stranded in remote areas of the desert in southern Arizona, authorities said.The first incident took place on Saturday when Tucson Sector Border Patrol Search Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) agents, along with help from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, responded to a call from a hiker stranded near the Superstition Mountains, east of Phoenix, after […]

(FRISCO, Texas) -- The $1 million bond has been reduced for the 17-year-old student charged with murder in the stabbing of another student at a Texas high school track meet.Karmelo Anthony, a student at Frisco Centennial High School, was detained following the deadly stabbing, which occurred at a Frisco Independent School District stadium on April 2 during a track and field championship involving multiple schools in the district.Austin Metcalf, 17, an 11th […]

Scott Eisen/Getty Images (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) -- Harvard University is refusing to comply with a series of demands from the Trump administration, potentially risking billion in federal funding.In a letter on Monday, Harvard University President Alan Garber said the school "will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights" by agreeing to a series of terms proposed by the Trump administration.The Trump administration demanded Harvard end its diversity, equity and inclusion […]

A New Mexico man has been arrested and federally charged in connection with two separate arson attacks on a Tesla dealership and the Republican Party's state headquarters in Albuquerque, according to newly unsealed court documents.Jamison Wagner is alleged to have set fires at a Tesla showroom in Bernalillo on Feb. 9 and vandalized several vehicles in the parking lot with phrases including, "Die Elon," "Tesla Nazi Inc" and "Die Tesla […]