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(NEW YORK) -- Two elite Northeast institutions of higher education have been rocked by horrific acts of gun violence, just days apart.In the first incident, two people were killed and nine were injured in a mass shooting at Brown University, when a gunman opened fire on the Rhode Island campus, officials said.Two days later, some 50 miles away in neighboring Massachusetts, an esteemed professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]

(NEW YORK) -- Traveling for the holidays Friday may be turbulent, as gusts and widespread rain move into the Northeast, fire warnings persist in the West and storms linger on the West Coast until the end of the year.Here is a look at the weather forecast for Friday.Rain and wind in the NortheastAs a large cross-country storm moves east, the system is moving through over the northern Great Lakes region and […]

(MILWAUKEE) -- A Wisconsin judge accused of concealing an undocumented man to prevent his arrest by immigration authorities was found guilty of felony obstruction, according to ABC Milwaukee affiliate WISN, which was in the courtroom for the trial.Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan was charged in a two-count federal indictment that alleges she obstructed official Department of Homeland Security removal proceedings and knowingly concealed the man from immigration authorities at a courthouse in April.Dugan was found guilty […]

(NEW YORK) -- New details about how police caught up to Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the 48-year-old former Brown graduate student who allegedly perpetrated a mass shooting at Brown University and killed an MIT professor, have emerged after a dayslong manhunt where he made a series of moves designed to evade authorities.Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said local police helped track down Valente, who was found dead in a New Hampshire storage […]

(WASHINGTON) -- After years of legal battles and online speculation, the Justice Department on Friday is set to release what a top DOJ official says are "several hundred thousand" documents from the investigations into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, whose connection to the rich and powerful and 2019 death by suicide has generated scores of conspiracy theories.The DOJ faces a Friday deadline for the release of all remaining Epstein files […]

(NEW YORK) -- The suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University that left two students dead and nine others wounded was found dead Thursday -- and authorities said he is the same man who gunned down an MIT professor two days after the Rhode Island campus shooting.During a news conference Thursday, authorities identified the suspect as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a 48-year-old former Brown graduate student, who attended […]

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. Currently, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug, the most restrictive federal category that includes heroin and LSD.Under this change, it moves to a Schedule III drug, putting it in the same group as some common prescription painkillers such as Tylenol with codeine. The White House is stressing that this change makes it […]

(NORTH CAROLINA) -- Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and members of his family died when a small plane crashed and caught fire during landing at the Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Thursday, according to the family and officials.The North Carolina Highway Patrol said it is awaiting confirmation from the medical examiner, but "it is believed that Mr. Gregory Biffle and members of his immediate family were occupants of […]

LONDON -- U.S. Southern Command announced on Wednesday that American forces struck another alleged drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing four people the command described as "narco-terrorists."Wednesday's strike was the 26th since such operations began on Sept. 2. The total death toll as reported by the Pentagon now stands at 99 people.SOUTHCOM said the "lethal kinetic strike" was launched at the direction of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and […]