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Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation has become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, pleaded not guilty Friday to human smuggling charges in a federal court in Tennessee. The hearing was the first chance the Maryland construction worker has had in a U.S. courtroom to...
Pittsburghers with ties to Middle East react to Israel's attack on Iran
Two Pittsburghers — one a Jew who lived for a decade in Israel, the other an Iranian-American with family in Tehran — offered starkly differing views Friday about Israel’s preemptive attacks on Iran less than 24 hours earlier. “This isn’t Israel attacking and beginning another war, this is a war...
Israel strikes Iran's nuclear sites and kills its top generals. Iran retaliates with missile barrage
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure Friday, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists — a barrage it said was necessary before its adversary got any...
Immigration raids are threatening businesses that supply America's food, farm bureaus say
VENTURA, Calif. — Large-scale immigration raids at packinghouses and fields in California are threatening businesses that supply much of the country’s food, farm bureaus say. Dozens of farmworkers have been arrested recently after uniformed federal agents fanned out on farms northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, which is known...
2 Chinese scientists will stay in jail while accused of bringing biological material to U.S.
DETROIT — Two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material into the United States for use at the University of Michigan will remain in custody after waiving their right to a hearing Friday in federal court. Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han said in separate court appearances in Detroit...
U.S. shifts military resources in Mideast in response to Israel strikes and possible Iran attack
WASHINGTON — The United States is shifting military resources, including ships, in the Middle East in response to Israel’s strikes on Iran and a possible retaliatory attack by Tehran, U.S. officials said Friday. The Navy has directed the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner, which is capable of defending against ballistic missiles,...
4 detainees have escaped from an immigration detention center in Newark, DHS says
NEWARK, N.J. — Four detainees have escaped from a federal immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, amid reports of disorder breaking out there, according to the Department of Homeland Security. More “law enforcement partners” have been brought in to find the detainees missing from Delaney Hall, according to an...
Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, briefly shows up to support Sean 'Diddy' Combs at trial
NEW YORK — Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, briefly showed up to the New York sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs on Friday to support the hip-hop mogul, a longtime friend. Ye, dressed in white, arrived at Manhattan federal court before noon while the trial was...
Military commander says 200 Marines moved into L.A. to protect federal property and personnel
LOS ANGELES — About 200 Marines have moved into Los Angeles and will protect federal property and personnel, a military commander said Friday. Maj. Gen. Scott Sherman, commander of Task Force 51 who is overseeing the 4,700 troops deployed, said Friday that the Marines have finished training on civil disturbance....
Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
ATLANTA — A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. Trump’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone...
The stars and stripes fly, in photos, as Flag Day approaches
More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise — sometimes dotted along historic graves of military veterans, draped upside down over a protester, or painted on a barn. Flag...
Air India's sole crash survivor narrates his escape
NEW DELHI — The lone passenger who survived the Air India crash that killed 241 people onboard couldn’t believe he was alive when he opened his eyes, surrounded by flames, debris and charred bodies. The British national of Indian origin, Vishwashkumar Ramesh, was headed to London when the flight crashed...
What to know about Israel's major attack on Iran
JERUSALEM — Israel launched a major attack on Iran on Friday, drawing their long-running shadow war into the open conflict in a way that could spiral into a wider, more dangerous regional war. The strikes set off explosions in the capital of Tehran as Israel said it was targeting Iranian...
Appeals court temporarily blocks judge's ruling to return control of National Guard to California 
SAN FRANCISCO — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids. The court said it would...
Israel attacks Iran's nuclear and missile sites, prompting Iranian drone-strike retaliation
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel attacked Iran early Friday in strikes that took out top military officers and hit nuclear and missile sites, raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since...
Officers sue to compel Congress to install a Jan. 6 riot memorial at Capitol
WASHINGTON — Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The officers claim the failure to...
U.S. House votes to pull $1.1B in funding for NPR, PBS
The U.S. House voted Thursday afternoon to slash nearly $1.1 billion in federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports local NPR and PBS stations such as Pittsburgh’s WESA-FM radio and WQED-TV. The Rescissions Act, which also would cancel $8.3 billion in foreign aid spending, passed the Republican-led...
Trump admits immigration crackdown hurting farmers, hotels 
President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted his immigration crackdown is hurting farms and hotels that rely heavily on undocumented immigrants for low-wage labor. As immigration protests spread from Los Angeles to other cities, Trump said he would consider tweaking his harsh mass deportation policy to spare the crucial agriculture and...
Sen. Padilla forcefully removed from Kristi Noem's news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed 
LOS ANGELES — Democratic U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla on Thursday was forcefully removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles and handcuffed by officers as he tried to speak up about immigration raids that have led to protests in California and around the country. Video shows...
JetBlue flight from Chicago rolls off runway and into grass in Boston
BOSTON — A JetBlue flight landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport rolled off the runway and into the grass on Thursday, an airport spokesperson said. No one on JetBlue flight 312 was injured, but the runway remained closed Thursday afternoon and a ground stop on all flights was in effect....
Gov. Abbott deploys over 5,000 Texas National Guard troops ahead of planned No Kings protests
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he has ordered the deployment of more than 5,000 Texas National Guard troops, along with more than 2,000 state police, to help local law enforcement manage protests against President Donald Trump and the ongoing federal immigration raids. Abbott’s announcement did not...
Hamas says it killed 12 Israeli-backed fighters that Israeli-supported group says were aid workers
CAIRO — A unit of Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia after detaining them early Thursday. An Israel-supported aid group, however, said the dead were its aid workers, eight of whom were killed when Hamas attacked their bus. It was not immediately...
Iran announces a new nuclear enrichment site after UN watchdog censure
VIENNA — Iran said it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. on Thursday immediately after its atomic watchdog agency censured Iran for failing to comply with nonproliferation obligations meant to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. “The Islamic Republic...
Maryland mom charged with killing 3-year-old daughter, lying about abduction: police
A Maryland woman is facing charges after police said she killed her 3-year-old daughter and then said that the girl had been abducted at gunpoint. Darrian Randle, 31, is charged with first-degree and second-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death of a minor, false reporting and other related offenses. Maryland...
Robert F. Kennedy met with the CIA after a trip to the Soviet Union, newly declassified files show
WASHINGTON — The CIA released nearly 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and his 1968 assassination on Thursday, detailing the spy agency’s work to investigate his killing as well as previously unknown contacts between him and the agency. Kennedy met with the...


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