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Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — He said he would do it in his first term. Now, with immigration a top issue for voters in November, Donald Trump says, if elected again, he’s determined to carry out his threat: to round up and deport millions of migrants living in the U.S. without legal permission. To […]
CBP (NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in California have discovered more than 1,400 packages of methamphetamine worth over $18 million inside a shipment of squash, officials said. The discovery happened early Monday morning at approximately 6:47 a.m. when CBP officers working at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility in California encountered a […]
ABC News (NEAR KHARKIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s 57th Motorized Brigade is one infantry unit among many battling the new Russian offensive North of Kharkiv, and it was also amongst the first to engage the Russians as they pushed over the border. ABC News sat down in a rare interview with Col. Oleksandr Bakulin, commander of […]
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate will vote Thursday for the second time in three months on a border security measure negotiated earlier this year by a bipartisan group of senators after Republicans blocked the bill from advancing earlier this year at the direction of former President Donald Trump. Both political parties’ elbows are trying […]
john finney photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Wednesday was another day of severe weather across the country with more than 200 severe storm reports from New York to Texas. Wednesday’s severe weather included three reported tornadoes in Texas, with some of the worst damage in Bell County between Austin and Waco. So far, 2024 has […]
Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Chloe Burke, a 25-year-old upcoming Miss Texas contestant, will be in Washington D.C. Thursday to lobby for the HEARTS Act and Access to AEDs Act. Access to AEDs (or Automated External Defibrillators) is a deeply personal issue to Burke, who suffered a cardiac arrest in 2019 at […]
Sen. Rick Scott speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, April 16, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Rick Scott has officially thrown his hat in the ring to become the next Senate Republican leader. Scott announced his plans to seek the top party leadership position in a letter to […]
Estes Thompson is shown in this booking photo. (Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority) (NEW YORK) — One day after lawyers for American Airlines argued a 9-year-old child acted negligently when she was recorded by a hidden camera in an airplane lavatory, the airline is backpedaling that defense. FBI agents knocked on the 9-year-old’s family home […]
ABC News (HOUSTON) — Many states are adopting a drastic approach to address what they judge to be under-performing schools. They’re assuming control of how the schools are run, including appointing new administrators. Texas did that this school year with the Houston Independent School District’s (HISD), when the Texas Education Agency, which oversees public education […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser said Wednesday that Israel has made “refinements” to its military operations in and around Rafah following pushback from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the president’s demands. Jake Sullivan, just back from a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, noted to reporters at the […]
