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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 […]

(ORANGE CITY, Fla.) -- A Florida woman has been arrested for selling human remains on Facebook Marketplace, according to the Orange City Police Department.Kymberlee Schopper, 52, was arrested last week and charged with the purchase or sale of human organs and tissue, according to court records."This is something I haven't seen in the 17 years that I've worked for this agency," Orange City Police Department Capt. Sherif El-Shami told ABC […]

ABC News (SAN DIEGO) -- A 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.The quake was centered in San Diego County but was felt as far north as Los Angeles.No injuries or damage have been reported, according to Cal Fire San Diego.The building "rocked for a long time," said Greg Allen, a Washington resident visiting San Diego."Everything was moving, the blinds and everything," he […]

(WASHINGTON) -- A lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man and alleged gang member who was deported in error to El Salvador, said Monday that it might take a contempt order to prompt the U.S. government to return him from that country.As ordered by a federal judge, U.S. officials over the weekend confirmed in a court filing that Abrego Garcia is being held in the CECOT mega-prison in El […]

(COPAKE, N.Y.) -- The 2022 recipient of the prestigious NCAA woman of the year award, a former soccer player at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the six victims killed in a plane crash in upstate New York on Saturday, according to a statement from her family.Karenna Groff, a medical student at NYU Langone in the department of neurosurgery and a former soccer star at MIT, died when […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Erik and Lyle Menendez's 85-year-old aunt, Terry Baralt, has been hospitalized after prosecutors showed graphic crime scene images at the brothers' hearing, the family said.The relatives are slamming the Los Angeles County Attorney's Office for their "cruel" presentation in court on Friday and said they're taking formal action to demand DA Nathan Hochman's office be removed from the case.Lyle and Erik Menendez -- who are serving life in […]

Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (VAN HORN, Texas) -- Blue Origin’s all-female crew, which includes pop star Katy Perry, completed their trip into space Monday morning.It marks the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, according to the company.The window for the latest New Shepard rocket launch opened on Monday morning at about 8:30 a.m. CDT, according to Blue Origin."I’ve dreamt of going to space for 15 years and tomorrow that dream becomes […]

As divers continue to use "side-scanning sonar" to search the Hudson River for wreckage from the helicopter crash that killed six people, the National Transportation Safety Board said the aircraft was not equipped with any flight recorders."No onboard video recorders or camera recorders have been recovered and none of the helicopter avionics onboard recorded information that could be used for the investigation," the agency said in an investigation update Saturday […]