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Trump is using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants – but the 18th-century law has been invoked only during times of war
As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting 137 Venezuelans he says are associated with a Venezuelan gang.
A federal judge swiftly blocked the deportations and ordered the planes carrying ...Read more

Federal court upholds sentence for longest-serving death row inmate in Kentucky
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s longest-held death row inmate will remain there after a court upheld his sentence of capital punishment from more than 40 years ago.
Karu Gene White’s most recent appeal to overturn his sentence was rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit on Friday, according to Kentucky Attorney General ...Read more

Investigators seize passport, question 'person of interest' in disappearance of missing Pitt student
Authorities have confiscated the passport of a man considered a "person of interest" in the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki in the Dominican Republic earlier this month, according to CNN.
Joshua Riibe is a person of interest but not a suspect in the case, according to authorities in Konanki's home county in ...Read more

NYC sheriff's office punished union leader with unwanted transfer, report says
NEW YORK — The president of the union representing New York City’s deputy sheriffs was transferred out of her unit and punished by Sheriff Anthony Miranda and his team for questioning the agency’s crackdown on illegal pot shops and several personnel changes, a city Office of Collective Bargaining report says.
After reviewing union ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom to ask California Legislature for another $2.8 billion to cover Medi-Cal cost overruns
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Days after telling lawmakers that he took out a $3.4 billion loan to pay for Medi-Cal costs through March, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office said Monday that he’s asking the state Legislature to approve another $2.8 billion in extra funding for the health care program for low-income Californians through the end of the ...Read more

Trump says he never liked 'Hamilton' in visit to Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cast the Kennedy Center, one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, as mismanaged and in disrepair, as he visited the iconic venue as its new chairman and vowed to work with Congress to restore it to a place of prominence.
Trump toured the center and spoke at a board meeting on Monday, ...Read more

Robbery suspect who collapsed at Rikers has died, the 3rd death of 2025 in NYC jails
NEW YORK — A 21-year-old man suffering from a serious infection who went into medical distress last Thursday in a jail at Rikers Island has died, according to officials and sources.
Ariel Quidone had been held in the Robert N. Davoren Center since March 7 after he was arrested in Manhattan in connection with two robberies, records show.
He ...Read more

What to know about Florida's rifle age restriction and the push to undo it
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida House is for the third time pushing to undo a law that bans people younger than 21 from buying a rifle.
In the past two legislative sessions, the bill failed amid opposition from Senate President Kathleen Passidomo.
But this year, gun rights activists say they’re more hopeful, pointing to new legislative ...Read more

Scalpers 'hoarding' and selling appointments at Miami-Dade DMVs, tax collector says
MIAMI — Appointments are a hot commodity at DMV offices across Miami-Dade County — and apparently are for sale.
On Monday, the county agency in the process of taking over driver’s-license services in Miami-Dade declared it had “uncovered a network of appointment scalpers” who have been “hoarding free appointments and reselling them ...Read more

Gov. Wes Moore: 'We've been doing DOGE in Maryland,' will work with feds to cut waste
BALTIMORE — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says he is not new to the concept of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
“If you believe in cutting waste, fraud, and abuse, the answer is that so do I. And that’s what we’ve been doing,” Moore told Semafor during an interview at the BlackRock retirement summit last week in Washington...Read more

Second suspect in 'Wizard of Oz' ruby slippers theft dies
DULUTH, Minn. — The man accused of burying the stolen ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” in his backyard for years has died — closing the case against him that never got its conclusion in federal court.
Jerry Hal Saliterman, 77, of Crystal died Sunday. He had COPD and Parkinson’s disease, according to court ...Read more

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said he will not sign off on a 'broad' business service tax; sugary drink tax is dead
BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore said Monday afternoon that the current version of a bill creating a “broad” new tax on business-to-business services will not be in the state’s final budget for fiscal year 2026.
“A broad [business] to [business] tax will not happen in the state of Maryland,” Moore said in Annapolis Monday.
Senate ...Read more

French politician says US should return Statue of Liberty
A French European parliament member quipped over the weekend that the U.S. should return the Statue of Liberty to France after President Donald Trump decided “to side with the tyrants” against Ukraine.
Raphaël Glucksmann, a a member of the European Parliament and co-president of Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, a small ...Read more

Minnesota AG Ellison seeks more staff, tougher penalties to fight Medicaid fraud
MINNEAPOLIS — State lawmakers are proposing an expansion of Minnesota’s Medicaid fraud control unit and tougher penalties for health- and elder-care providers who bilk taxpayer money.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said the expansion, from 32 to 41 people, would allow the investigative unit in his office to recover more money from...Read more
Michigan nuclear plant owner gets $56.8 million from feds toward restart
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy said it disbursed about $56.8 million to Holtec International on Monday as the company continues work in west Michigan toward the country's first-ever restart of a commercial nuclear power plant.
The funds represent the second tranche of federal loan dollars released for Holtec's project at the ...Read more

Female inmates in Central California prison say officers assaulted them after sexual abuse claims
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Correctional staff at the Central California Women’s Facility assaulted a group of incarcerated women with pepper spray and rubber bullets to retaliate after inmates filed sexual abuse claims, a recent federal lawsuit alleges.
Thirteen women who are currently serving sentences in the Chowchilla prison filed the ...Read more

Cop celebrated K-9 biting suspects, shared 'gory pics' with other California officers, feds say
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A former California police officer was convicted of unreasonably siccing his K-9 on a bicyclist and ordering the dog to bite the person, according to federal prosecutors, who said he then lied about the incident in a report.
While a K-9 handler with the Antioch Police Department, Morteza Amiri kept a “running bite count...Read more

Groups question if Trump deportation move defied court order
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s legal maneuver to invoke a 1798 law to deport certain alleged Venezuelan gang members in the United States raised questions about whether he defied a court order that sought to temporarily pause those removals.
Trump announced a proclamation Saturday that said the Tren de Aragua gang is “undertaking ...Read more

Florida demands patient names, prescriptions from drug middlemen
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Business groups are raising privacy concerns after state regulators requested detailed data on Floridians' prescription drugs, including patients' names and dates of birth and their doctors.
The Office of Insurance Regulation is demanding the unusual trove of data from pharmacy benefit managers — health care industry ...Read more

Trump declares Biden pardons of Jan. 6 panel to be invalid
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that pardons granted by then-President Joe Biden to lawmakers on the disbanded select House committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot were invalid because he used an automatic pen.
“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of ...Read more
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