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(NEW YORK) — Harvey Weinstein was back in court on Wednesday with less than a week before the start of his second New York sex assault trial. His trial is expected to last four to six weeks once testimony begins, prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Jury selection begins Tuesday and is expected […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell and $790 million to Northwestern, as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, according to two White House officials. “On Monday, several Trump administration agencies froze roughly $790M of federal funding and roughly $1.05B of federal funding from […]
(MOSCOW, Idaho) — University of Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger returned to court on Wednesday for a high-stakes hearing to decide what evidence will be allowed at his trial, which is set to begin in August. The use of particular language has been a major point of contention in the ongoing hearing. Judge Steven Hippler agreed […]
Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has denied Karen Read’s emergency request to delay her state murder trial until it reviews her appeal. No explanation was given for the denial of her request. Read had filed an emergency petition on Monday, asking the court for a stay of […]
(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are exhausting all legislative tools to prevent future votes on repealing President Donald Trump’s tariffs — doubling down on their support for the administration’s policies. GOP leaders on Wednesday inserted language into the “rule” for the budget blueprint that would prohibit the House, until at least September, from forcing a vote […]
(MOSCOW, Idaho) — University of Idaho murders suspect Bryan Kohberger will be back in court on Wednesday for a high-stakes hearing to decide what evidence will be allowed at his trial, which is set to begin in August. The judge is expected to hear arguments over what evidence should be presented to the jury, including Kohberger’s […]
Security Fire Department (SECURITY-WIDEFIELD, Colo.) — Three children and two dogs were rescued from a storm drainage system in Colorado, according to fire officials. Officials responded to a neighborhood in Security-Widefield, Colorado, searching for “three children and two dogs lost in the maze of the underground storm drainage system” over the weekend, the Security Fire […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice and the U.S. Coast Guard busted 45,000 pounds of cocaine with a value of over $500 million, according to top DOJ officials on Wednesday. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel were at Port Everglades in Florida on Wednesday and said the seizures of the […]
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security will begin screening visa applicants’ social media content for “antisemitic activity,” it announced on Wednesday. “There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no obligation to admit them or […]
(NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York and another federal judge in Texas on Wednesday temporarily blocked the deportation of several purported Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that migrants being held in the Southern District of New York could not be deported without them first receiving […]
