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Newsom offers $50,000 reward in unsolved killings of Elk Grove Sikh grandfathers

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the unsolved 2011 murders of two Sikh grandfathers in Elk Grove that have haunted the community for 15 years.

Gurmej Singh Atwal and Surinder Singh were shot March 4, 2011, during an afternoon walk along ...Read more

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Miami island where Bezos, Ivanka and Jared live is all in on immigration enforcement

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MIAMI — The tiny Miami-Dade County enclave of Indian Creek Village — a manicured golf course surrounded by mega mansions and super yachts — is home to multi-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, celebrities like NFL star Tom Brady and singer Julio Iglesias and President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared ...Read more

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ICE agents tackle and injure US citizen student with disabilities, local officials say

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Federal immigration agents violently detained a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Santa Maria, California, High School student with special needs on Wednesday morning, according to school and city officials.

The student, who has limited verbal communication and is on an individualized education program, was walking to school when agents tackled him,...Read more

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Southern California's Metrolink suspends iconic coastal route due to high tides

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LOS ANGELES — Metrolink announced it will temporarily suspend service in Southern Orange County, where the train runs along the coastline, during the last week of October as forecasts call for high tides.

Amtrak’s iconic Pacific Surfliner, which connects Orange County to San Diego, and offers picturesque ocean views, has long been under ...Read more

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Ship with Russian diesel signals US port after Trump-Putin deal

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A tanker carrying diesel left the Russian port of Primorsk and intermittently signaled New York, potentially marking the first such shipment following a fuel-supply agreement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

The vessel, hauling almost 43,000 metric tons of ultralow-sulfur diesel, left the Baltic Sea port on Thursday and would arrive in ...Read more

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Oncologists cheer melanoma data that tanked Moderna's shares

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Leaked data from Moderna Inc. and Merck & Co.’s highly anticipated melanoma vaccine trial has led to a rare disconnect between doctors, who celebrated the result, and Wall Street, which sold off the stocks.

Normally results of such pivotal drug studies are binary, with doctors, patients and investors all learning whether a novel medicine will...Read more

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Detectives raid Bronx fentanyl den, find 2-year-old girl inside drug-filled apartment

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NEW YORK — A 2-year-old girl was found in a Bronx apartment that doubled as a packaging mill for fentanyl during a recent raid that authorities on Friday called a “rescue mission.”

The child was not harmed but was taken into custody by the Administration for Children’s Services, officials said. Four other children who lived in the ...Read more

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Sen. Ron Wyden pushes bills to tax data centers, aid displaced workers

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WASHINGTON — Senate Finance ranking Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon released the text of a pair of bills Friday aimed at blunting the impact of artificial intelligence on the American workforce — an early signal of potential Democratic priorities if the party regains control of the Senate.

One bill, dubbed the Stability and Opportunity for ...Read more

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DOJ sues to prevent Sullivan loss in Alaska

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has moved in federal court to preemptively block a narrow loss by Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan if he comes up short in his reelection bid next month.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in an Alaska federal court argues that the presence of a third contender in the race, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., should justify a ...Read more

Brooklyn man shouts racist slur amid escort off Delta plane at JFK

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NEW YORK — A Brooklyn man was arrested after he went off on a racist, expletive-laden rant while being escorted off a Delta airlines plane just prior to its takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, video shows.

Port Authority police at JFK responded Thursday to reports of an unruly passenger — who was also apparently ...Read more

Is ICE violating due process rights in arrests? Washington cases shed light

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SEATTLE — As a federal judge last month ordered a Kenyan UW Medical Center staffer released from the federal government’s immigrant detention facility in Tacoma, she pointed to his constitutional right to due process.

The government had known about Robert Sidhe for years, Judge Tiffany Cartwright noted. After overstaying his visa, he ...Read more

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Mediator to decide whether Nick Reiner's trust fund can pay for defense in murder case

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LOS ANGELES — A mediator will decide whether Nick Reiner can use money set aside by his parents to defend himself when he stands trial for their murders.

Lawyers for Reiner and the trust told a judge Friday morning they have reached an agreement for "global mediation" that will begin in mid-December. A judge would still have to approve the ...Read more

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DOJ sues to prevent Sullivan loss in Alaska

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has moved in federal court to preemptively block a narrow loss by Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan if he comes up short in his reelection bid next month.

The lawsuit filed Thursday in an Alaska federal court argues that the presence of a third contender in the race, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., should justify a ...Read more

Israeli police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a road during a protest against the army draft in Jerusalem on Oct. 8, 2026. AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg

Why ultra-Orthodox parties hold so much sway in Israeli politics

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On Oct. 20, 2026, a week before Israel’s elections, dozens of men were detained on suspicion of evading the draft – arrests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “unacceptable.”

The young men attend ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, religious schools, whose students were long exempt from the military service mandatory for ...Read more

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ICE agents tackle and injure US citizen student with disabilities, local officials say

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Federal immigration agents violently detained a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Santa Maria, California, High School student with disabilities on Wednesday morning, according to school and city officials.

The student, who has limited verbal communication, was walking to school when agents tackled him, questioned him about his citizenship and ...Read more

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2 Massachusetts State Troopers suspended with pay after reported rape at Martha's Vineyard barracks

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BOSTON — Two State Police troopers have been suspended with pay as an internal affairs investigation plays out following an alleged rape at the Oak Bluffs barracks complex on Martha’s Vineyard in August.

An assistant director of security for the Boston Public Schools, Edward J. Brown, has been charged with the rape. But that alleged sexual ...Read more

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Anti-ICE activists ejected from Philly courthouse as they protest immigration arrests

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PHILADELPHIA — A dozen No ICE Philly protesters were quickly ejected from the Criminal Justice Center on Friday morning as they called for greater protections for immigrants who go to the courthouse.

Group members entered the Center City building through different doors, then gathered in the center of the main-floor lobby to read a statement ...Read more

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Baltimore election worker's car hit by gunfire during police shooting

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BALTIMORE — A Baltimore City Board of Elections contractor retrieving ballots from a drop box near the Erdman Shopping Center was an uninjured bystander Thursday when a Baltimore Police officer shot and critically wounded a man during a foot chase, election officials said.

The contractor’s car was damaged by gunfire, but the ballots were ...Read more

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GOP Lt. Gov. candidate Shawn Oliver continues city council duties as calls grow for resignation

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BOSTON — Republican Lt. Gov. candidate Shawn Oliver isn’t abandoning his New Bedford City Council duties nearly a week following his arrest on OUI charges after allegedly crashing into several parked cars.

He’s doing so as calls for his resignation grow in the Whaling City. Councilors earn a base salary of $27,768 per year.

He earned $...Read more

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Since 2024, 38 guns stolen from Baltimore vehicles later tied to other crimes

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BALTIMORE — Baltimore Police received reports of 106 firearms stolen from vehicles through Oct. 14 — approaching the total for all of last year — and Police Commissioner Richard Worley wants state lawmakers to hold accountable owners who fail to secure their guns.

Some stolen guns are turning up again in criminal investigations. Police ...Read more