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NPR's Morning News Brief published Sept. 3 reported on continuing changes in Pentagon military leadership, a Venezuela oil deal promoted by President Donald Trump, and a deadlocked jury in the trial of Lindsay Clancy. Steve Inskeep and…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READReform UK has set out plans to cut £80bn from public spending over five years, with welfare reductions accounting for £50bn of the total and the remainder coming from net zero programmes, the civil service and foreign aid. Speaking at a…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READThe Tucson Police Department confirmed Tuesday that a shooting early Monday outside Venture-N, a gay bar in Tucson, was a targeted hate crime against the LGBTQIA+ community, according to a department news release. Vincent Anthony…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department on Tuesday filed court papers backing OpenAI's argument that training its AI models on internet content is protected by copyright law's fair-use doctrine. The filing marks a formal intervention by the Trump…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READA shooting in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon wounded multiple people, including two police officers, according to city officials. The Minneapolis Police Department urged the public to stay away from the area as officers…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READCpl Sean Farrell of the Upper Pottsgrove police was charged on Tuesday with voluntary manslaughter for last week's fatal shooting of 22-year-old Glenwood Earl Pysher IV, an unarmed college student who went to the wrong house after a night…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READNew York state judge Brendan Lantry pressed landlord attorney Randy Mastro on Sept. 2 to substantiate his claim that Mayor Zohran Mamdani unlawfully shaped the city's rent freeze. Landlords sued to overturn the Rent Guidelines Board's…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe Christian Law Enforcement Fellowship said Tuesday it had cut ties with former San Diego County sheriff's deputy Ricky Fischer, days after Voice of San Diego reported that the organization had hired him to counsel police officers in…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READSenatobia, Mississippi's board of aldermen voted unanimously on Tuesday to fire Police Chief Harold Vanderford after it was reported that he regularly used racist slurs against Black people in his text messages. The town, about 40% Black,…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READAn Associated Press and FRONTLINE investigation published September 2 found Americans reported a record $15.9 billion in scam losses last year, a 25% increase from 2024, with the investigation finding that victims have little recourse to…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READOn Monday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) used his time on the House floor to publicly call billionaire Leon Black and illusionist David Copperfield co-conspirators of the late accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and to urge the Department…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READMexican security forces killed Luis Enrique Barragán Chávez, the leader of the Los Reyes Cartel and the target of a U.S. State Department reward of up to $3 million, in a shootout in western Michoacán, Public Security Secretary Omar García…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READThe Senatobia Board of Aldermen voted unanimously on Tuesday to fire Police Chief Harold Vanderford, declining to acknowledge his same-day resignation and opting instead for dismissal, according to the city clerk. The firing follows…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READNORRISTOWN, Pa. — An Upper Pottsgrove police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in the Aug. 23 fatal shooting of a 22-year-old college student who had ended up at the wrong house late at night, Montgomery County District…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it now has enough body cameras to equip all of its officers and agents, after years of immigration officials telling lawmakers and advocates that the agency lacked enough devices for an agency-wide…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READThe California Legislature on Monday passed a bill banning law enforcement from using shock gloves through 2030, sending it to Gov. Gavin Newsom with a Sept. 30 deadline to sign or veto. The bill, introduced by Assemblymember LaShae…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READHarold Gene Lucas, 74, was scheduled to be executed by three-drug lethal injection beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Florida State Prison near Starke, according to the Associated Press. If carried out, he would become the 14th prisoner put to…
2026-09-01 · 4 MIN READOfficials in Tarrant County, Texas, are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a proposal to use dozens fewer polling locations than in previous elections, according to The Associated Press. The plan has drawn protests from Democrats who say the…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READNew York police officers shot a woman who was holding two large kitchen knives in Times Square on Monday, according to bystander video of the incident. The shooting occurred outside One Times Square, adjacent to a New York Police…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READThe Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority, a Texas state agency whose board is mostly appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, has directed at least $30 million from a $1 mandatory auto insurance fee toward expanding Flock Safety's automated…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READA 17-year-old North Carolina girl has been indicted on a charge of murder by aiding and abetting for her alleged role in a May shooting at a San Diego mosque that killed three people, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O'Neill said…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READA federal judge on Saturday ordered the involuntary feeding of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man charged with shooting two National Guard troops near the White House and killing one of them, after he stopped eating in custody and was…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READCasino operator Bally's warned in an August quarterly filing that "substantial doubt" exists about its ability to continue as a going concern unless it secures new financing or completes other planned transactions within a year. The…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READTom Homan, the White House 'border czar,' on Sunday denied that the one-day turnaround between British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos's arrest and his deportation to the United Kingdom amounted to preferential treatment. Appearing on CNN's…
2026-08-30 · 4 MIN READAlbuquerque has paired speed sensors with 'rest in red' traffic signals — an approach in which signals default to red until a vehicle approaches — on Lead and Coal avenues, two parallel one-way streets where officials had struggled for…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READA Wall Street Journal excerpt from William D. Cohan's new book "Money to Burn" details how Leon Black, the billionaire founder of Apollo Global Management, paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million for financial advice over five years before…
2026-08-29 · 6 MIN READWyoming Attorney General Keith Kautz is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state's most populous county during the Aug. 18 primary, a spokesperson for Republican…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READWASHINGTON — Under guidance issued this spring, the FBI will dismiss job applicants revealed during vetting to have engaged in prostitution within the last 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in a position of trust, and will…
2026-08-28 · 5 MIN READA volunteer search and rescue team reached a reportedly experienced climber stranded on a 6-inch ledge more than 10,000 feet above the ground in California's Sierra Nevada on Saturday, after the man veered off the Mendenhall couloir route…
2026-08-28 · 4 MIN READU.S. immigration officials arrested British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Immigration officials announced on Friday that…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READThe Madison County Sheriff's Department in Indiana spent Thursday morning searching for two lions that were never found, after a local resident reported spotting what appeared to be a 300-pound lioness wearing a blue harness alongside a…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READSix Flags has kept its X2 rollercoaster at Magic Mountain in Southern California closed since July 12, 2026, after two riders suffered brain injuries within days of each other, according to a CNN investigation reported by The Guardian. The…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READA group of U.S. senators led by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday to cancel its plan to outfit officers with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks. In a letter to…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READContractors working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection have begun building a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona along part of the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation, the Associated Press reported. The project advances one of…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READFederal authorities announced Thursday that about 70 alleged members of the Puerto Rican drug trafficking organization Los Baja Deo are in custody and facing federal charges. A total of 81 people were indicted in the operation, which…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READFederal immigration officers have detained more than 50 people in Danbury, Connecticut, this week in an operation that began Monday, according to the advocacy group Danbury Unites for Immigrants. ICE officers, some wearing masks, made…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READMinneapolis city officials this week released nearly 1,500 photographs and hundreds of pages of records from the Aug. 27, 2025, shooting at Annunciation Church and School, where 23-year-old Robin Westman killed two children and wounded at…
2026-08-27 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department and FBI on Wednesday announced the seizure of two hacking platforms used by a Chinese state-sponsored group to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks. The platforms — QScan and QTRouter —…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READSeven protesters who blocked traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge received 30-day sentences and $1,000 fines Friday after felony charges against them were dropped, closing the criminal case over a protest against Israel's war in Gaza.
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READCIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Russian intelligence services during an unannounced Tuesday visit to Moscow, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin did not participate in the…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READThe State Department has paused all immigrant visa applications worldwide and is separately preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who applied for asylum, marking an expansion of the Trump…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READPolice in Upper Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania, responding to a 911 call about a possible break-in attempt, shot and killed a man outside a home early Sunday, according to the Montgomery County district attorney's office. The district…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READAn immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against Luis Manuel Aviles Roa, a Nicaraguan national detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while his son serves aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, according to the man's…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READFederal immigration agents arrested 49,571 people in July — roughly 1,500 per day — making it the highest monthly total since October 2022 and a 15% increase from the previous record set in June, according to government data obtained by…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READA federal judge is set to weigh whether Christian Castro, an ICE agent charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime, will be released from a Brownsville, Texas jail on Thursday under a state 90-day detention cap. Castro…
2026-08-26 · 5 MIN READA Chinese court sentenced artist Gao Zhen to three years in prison after convicting him of insulting Chinese heroes in artworks from the early 2000s that lampooned Mao Zedong and other leaders. Gao, 70, is a U.S. permanent resident, and…
2026-08-26 · 4 MIN READThe Louisiana National Guard is ending its eight-month deployment patrolling New Orleans streets, with 120 remaining troops completing their final patrol Monday and set to conclude their mission by Aug. 31. Lt. Col. Noel Collins, a guard…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READA Department of Homeland Security official told Nevada election officials earlier this month that the agency's initial figure of roughly 16,000 noncitizens on the state's voter rolls was a 'ceiling,' with each match still requiring manual…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READA federal judge in Houston has ordered the release of Daniel Tirado Pantoja, the second witness detained after a federal immigration agent fatally shot the driver of a work van on July 7. U.S. District Judge Alfred Bennett ordered Tirado…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READDeloitte has agreed to pay nearly $21.5 million to settle Justice Department allegations that the accounting and consulting firm defrauded the federal government by considering diversity in its employment decisions. The agreement was…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READA California couple in a surrogacy custody dispute told a Texas court Tuesday that the life-threatening heart defect in their newborn child has worsened, the Associated Press reported. The testimony came in a Dallas courtroom, where…
2026-08-25 · 5 MIN READGurpatwant Singh Pannun said Tuesday that the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned him of a new credible threat to his life. The agencies did not provide details about the plot that was uncovered.
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READLuis Manuel Aviles, a Nicaraguan national who has lived in the United States for 19 years, has been released from immigration detention, his family told The Associated Press. The 48-year-old handyman from Key West, Florida, was arrested…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest single monthly arrest total during the second Trump administration, according to government data ICE shared with the University of California, Berkeley's…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READJed York, the 46-year-old owner of the San Francisco 49ers and a co-owner of Scottish Premiership club Rangers, was jailed in Ohio on Monday after pleading no contest to two charges arising from a prostitution sting. Court records show…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has backed a City Council bill that would require Amazon to directly hire the couriers who deliver its packages, announced the collection of more than $9 million in idling fines from Amazon delivery…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READThe wife of an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant was deported Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Associated Press identified her as Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo and…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READRep. Al Green, D-Texas, filed new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday, accusing him of "high crimes and misdemeanors" tied to the operation of federal immigration enforcement agencies. The resolution names four…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READU.S. forces struck another vessel in the eastern Pacific on Monday, according to U.S. Southern Command, killing two people the Pentagon identified as drug traffickers. The death toll from the Trump administration's boat-strike campaign in…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READThe State Department is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are seeking asylum in the United States — a move that would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READThe Justice Department and TikTok reached a $400 million settlement to resolve allegations the social-media company violated federal laws protecting the online privacy of children, according to the Wall Street Journal.
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READMore than a dozen major US companies that publicly backed the Voting Rights Act continue to fund state-level political organizations working to weaken the legislation, according to research by the nonpartisan Center for Political…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security has published plans to spend up to $20 million outfitting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with electric-shock gloves by March 2027, according to procurement documents reviewed by The…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READSean Grayson, the former Illinois sheriff's deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, died Sunday while serving a 20-year prison sentence. His attorney, Daniel Fultz, confirmed the death but declined to provide further details.
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READThe Washington County Sheriff's Office is investigating the deaths of five people found on a rural property in Forest Grove, Oregon, about 30 miles west of downtown Portland, as a homicide. Detectives said Sunday that no arrests had been…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READThe White House declined to comment on the possibility that President Trump would declare a national emergency over US elections when asked by The Guardian, framing the dispute around pending legislation instead. Since a July primetime…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READTwo Phoenix police officers were fired and arrested Saturday on charges including aggravated assault and kidnapping following an unreported Aug. 5 traffic stop in which they physically assaulted a man and a woman and used a Taser on them,…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READThe Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission reported that the number of fake identification cards confiscated statewide last year reached its highest level in at least two decades. Boston bars have responded by comparing…
2026-08-23 · 4 MIN READPEN America has condemned federal prosecutors' use of former FBI director James Comey's novel 'FDR Drive' in their case accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump. The free-expression organization's legal director, Mara Gassmann,…
2026-08-22 · 3 MIN READThomas Bailey, a 58-year-old ICE officer, was jailed Friday in Louisiana on a charge of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling after he allegedly entered his ex-girlfriend's apartment without permission near Covington. The St. Tammany…
2026-08-22 · 3 MIN READA U.S. government deportation flight carrying 161 passengers departed Alexandria, La., on Thursday and landed at Cap Haïtien Airport in Haiti, ABC News reported. According to UPI, the flight was the first such removal since the…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READA Mexico City neighborhood known as Little LA has become a hub for Mexican nationals deported from the United States, many of whom spent years or decades in the US and find Mexico foreign. The Trump administration has deported roughly…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READTikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to the US Department of Justice to resolve a 2024 lawsuit alleging the video platform collected data on millions of users under 13 in violation of the Children's…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber 825 million euros (about $964 million) on Friday, finding that the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts — sometimes permanently — without any human review to…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department aims to deploy roughly 1,000 election monitors at polling places for November's midterm elections, a target that voting rights experts and former department officials said the agency is unlikely to reach. Harmeet…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READFlock Safety's automated license-plate cameras have been vandalized in at least 36 states, according to NPR's review of local news reports, as opposition to the surveillance technology has grown into what one civil-liberties analyst called…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READSecretary of State Marco Rubio designated U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained in China on Thursday, the State Department announced. Zin, the founder and executive director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar and a…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READA federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Christine Hunsicker, the 49-year-old founder and former chief executive of fashion-tech company CaaStle Inc., to five years in prison on Thursday for her role in a roughly $300 million fraud scheme…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READJosé Mejía Hernandez, 45, was hospitalized with a brain injury and severe bruising after being arrested by ICE agents in Arlington, Virginia on August 11, according to medical records and his lawyers. The Department of Homeland Security…
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