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Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (TUCSON, Ariz.) -- A Texas man has been charged for allegedly purchasing explosives he intended to use to attack police during protests against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions in Los Angeles last week, according to the Justice Department .Grzegorz Vandenberg, 48, is alleged to have purchased fireworks from a travel center in New Mexico, where he reportedly told employees he […]

(BROOKLYN PARK, Minn.) -- A break-in has been reported at the home of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman, authorities said.After the Saturday morning killings, the house was processed by crime scene investigators and then was boarded up early Sunday, Brooklyn Park police said. On Tuesday, Hortman family members took their valuables from the house, police said.At 8 a.m. Wednesday police said they were alerted to an overnight break-in. They […]

(NEW YORK) -- Heat is the No. 1 weather-related killer -- and it’s heading to the most densely populated part of America for a prolonged period.A heat wave forecast to envelop the Midwest and the Northeast with triple-digit weather is expected to arrive on the heels of the first official day of summer.But before the sizzle, the country's midsection and much of the East Coast will have to endure at […]

(GREEN ISLE, Minn.) -- Vance Boelter was preoccupied with societal problems and how he could fix them to serve the greater good, according to some of his previous writings and the man who worked with Boelter for more than a decade doing web design for a series of his projects.Before allegedly carrying out a "political assassination" on Saturday, Boelter was "clearly very religious, very passionate," and "devout, and sincere in […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- The legal battle over the Trump administration's deployment of the National Guard in California continued in a federal appeals court on Tuesday.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals presided over a remote hearing regarding California's challenge to President Donald Trump's federalization of the state's National Guard troops amid protests over immigration enforcement in the Los Angeles area.Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who had instituted a curfew within downtown LA amid the protests, […]

(NEW YORK) -- The man who allegedly stabbed two court security officers as they screened people at the metal detectors at the Manhattan criminal courthouse was carrying out a "planned and calculated attack" that would have been worse had the weapon not been curved, prosecutors said.Jonathan Wohl made his initial appearance on Tuesday in the same courthouse where he allegedly charged at officers with a folding knife on Monday, prosecutors said. He […]

(GREEN ISLE, Minn.) -- Wendy Thomas was on the phone with her father when she saw someone in a field in Green Isle, Minnesota, on Sunday night.Thomas watched as the person reached a culvert and squatted, she told Minneapolis ABC affiliate KSTP."I was like, 'Dad, that’s somebody,'" she told the outlet. "He said, 'Hang up and call somebody.'"Moments later, Thomas was flagging down a member of law enforcement, she said, and […]

Ty Wright/Getty Images (NEW YORK)-- The death toll has climbed to seven in the wake of heavy rains and devastating flash flooding in West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said on Tuesday, as he warned the threat isn't over."Flood watches continue throughout West Virginia," Morrisey said on social media. "With the ground already saturated, there is the possibility of further flash flooding. Please continue to heed local warnings and do not […]

Ty Wright/Getty Images (NEW YORK)-- The death toll has climbed to seven in the wake of heavy rains and devastating flash flooding in West Virginia, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said on Tuesday.Two people were unaccounted for as of Monday, according to the governor."West Virginia has been hit very, very hard," Morrisey said.A state of emergency is in effect and the West Virginia National Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials are […]