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Two reporters from Times, Post ousted from NYPD headquarters media trailer
NEW YORK — Two veteran New York City newspaper reporters who cover the New York Police Department were given the boot Thursday from the media trailer at police headquarters dubbed “the Shack.”
Tina Moore, police bureau chief of The New York Post, and Maria Cramer, police bureau chief of The New York Times, were barred from NYPD ...Read more
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VA must build more housing on West LA campus, and UCLA and Brentwood School leases are illegal, judge rules
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to build more than 2,500 units of housing for low-income veterans on its West Los Angeles campus.
In a 124-page decision following a non-jury trial, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter also ruled that leases to the University of California, Los Angeles, ...Read more
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Pentagon says $5 billion invested in ammunition amid Ukraine war
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has invested $5.3 billion of congressionally appropriated money since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine to boost U.S.-produced munitions for the besieged nation and replenish stockpiles, mostly for the Army, according to new figures released Friday.
American industry was making only 14,000 155mm shells a ...Read more
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LAX shifts focus from terminal expansion to infrastructure updates as passenger forecasts drop
LOS ANGELES — Plans to improve Los Angeles International Airport will shift from a focus on terminal expansion projects to modernizing outdated infrastructure as passenger forecasts for 2028 have dropped below previous estimates, airport officials said Thursday.
“We previously expected 110 million passengers in 2028. We now expect slightly ...Read more
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Donald Trump renews crime, immigration complaints while in NC to accept FOP endorsement
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former President Donald Trump focused on rising crime and unchecked illegal immigration while in Charlotte Friday to formally accept the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police.
The Republican presidential nominee, speaking at the Hilton Charlotte University Place hotel, accused Vice President Kamala Harris, the ...Read more
NYC terror plot on Jewish center scuttled by Feds, DOJ says
A Pakistani national living in Canada has been charged with planning to cross the border into the U.S. to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish center in New York City, federal officials said.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, know as Shahzeb Jadoon, was arrested earlier this week in Canada on U.S. charges of attempting to provide material support and ...Read more
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Alleged white supremacist leader agrees to plead guilty to conspiracy to riot
Months after a federal appeals court revived charges against two alleged members of a white supremacy extremist group, one of the men this week agreed to plead guilty — potentially bringing to a close a case that's dragged on for nearly six years.
Robert Rundo on Wednesday agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to riot tied to his role in the ...Read more
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Bryan Kohberger's defense aims to strike death penalty option in Idaho murder trial
BOISE, Idaho — Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger will attempt to remove the possibility he’d face the death penalty, a sentence prosecutors plan to pursue if a jury finds him guilty of murder in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in November 2022.
Kohberger’s defense team met a court deadline Thursday to file challenges ...Read more
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Trump lambastes women accusers in leadup to Harris debate
Donald Trump on Friday left a Manhattan courtroom and aired a laundry list of grievances about a range of topics, including being found guilty of sexual assault and his presidential rival Vice President Kamala Harris just days before their high-stakes debate.
Remarkably, in the midst of...Read more
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Utah mom, 3 young kids found dead in murder-suicide
A Utah mother fatally shot her three young children before turning the gun on herself, authorities said Friday.
The bodies of Maribel Ibarra, 32, and her three children — a 4-year-old boy and two girls, ages 1 and 2 — were found inside a vehicle in West Haven, 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, late Tuesday night.
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Brothers of top officials in NYC Mayor Adams' administration ensnared in federal corruption probe, sources say
NEW YORK — The brothers of three high ranking officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration have become ensnared in a corruption investigation that prompted federal authorities to execute search warrants on them and several top mayoral advisers this week, according to law enforcement sources and other individuals familiar with the matter.
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Even at night, SoCal sees little cool down from heat wave
LOS ANGELES — A sweltering heat wave that’s baked parts of Southern California with triple-digit temperatures during the day continues to punish the region with an unrelenting heat that continues after dark.
Temperatures in the Santa Monica Mountains didn’t drop below 95 degrees from Thursday night to Friday morning. At midnight Thursday,...Read more
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Mexican opposition says it has votes to block AMLO's reform
Mexico’s opposition is pledging to block President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s controversial overhaul of the judicial system in the Senate, where the ruling coalition is within a hair of securing a two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution.
Lopez Obrador’s Morena party and its allies are still one vote short of the 86 ...Read more
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Convicted serial killer known as 'Hollywood Ripper' appearing in court for 1993 Pacaccio murder
CHICAGO — A convicted serial killer dubbed the “Hollywood ripper” is appearing in court in Skokie on Friday after authorities long sought to bring him to trial in the 1993 slaying of 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio.
Michael Gargiulo was questioned by police after the Glenview teen was found by her father stabbed to death on the front porch of...Read more
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Father's arrest in school shooting unprecedented in Georgia
ATLANTA — Colin Gray is the first parent of a mass school shooting suspect to be arrested and charged in Georgia in connection with the crime, prosecutors believe.
The 54-year-old appeared in court Friday charged with multiple counts of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty, accused of knowingly allowing his 14-year...Read more
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Brothers of top officials in NYC Mayor Adams' administration ensnared in federal corruption probe, sources say
The brothers of three high ranking officials in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration have become ensnared in a corruption investigation that prompted federal authorities to execute search warrants on them and several top mayoral advisers this week, according to law enforcement sources and other individuals familiar with the matter.
The two ...Read more
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Slain Georgia high school teacher tried to crawl back to students after he was shot
In the moments after he was shot, math teacher Richard Aspinwall was “trying to crawl back to” his students, even as sounds of gunfire continued to echo through the halls of Apalachee High School.
Stephanie Reyna and Bryan Maldonado, both 17 years old, were among the 18 students in Aspinwall’s class when the violence began on Wednesday ...Read more
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Georgia Tech cuts ties with Chinese university under federal scrutiny
Georgia Tech is cutting ties with a Chinese university that’s faced increased federal scrutiny over its potential links to the Asian nation’s military.
The school said Friday that it is ending a partnership with Tianjin University after an extensive investigation. The school said the roughly 300 students in the Georgia Tech Shenzhen ...Read more
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California to get first new national marine sanctuary in 32 years, banning offshore oil drilling along 116 miles of coast
A long-running effort by native tribes and environmentalists to establish the first new national marine sanctuary along California’s coastline in 32 years — the aquatic version of a new national park — where offshore oil drilling would be prohibited forever, reached a key milestone Friday.
The Biden administration published the final ...Read more
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Nation watches as teenage suspect, father face charges in Georgia school shooting
WINDER, Ga. — Sheriff’s deputies on Friday led a 14-year-old high school freshman into a Georgia courtroom, where he learned he could face life in prison without parole for allegedly gunning down two of his classmates and two teachers. Shackled and wearing a green jail uniform, Colt Gray nodded silently as the judge explained the proceedings...Read more
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