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“We all need to do everything we can to cool things down now,” Sherrill said at a press conference announcing the plan. “I will not give ICE the pretext to expand operations in our state.” The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday afternoon. But state officials made clear their goal was for ICE to no longer be involved in security operations outside Delaney Hall.

Candido is charged with one felony count of leaving the scene of personal injury and death following a fatal crash, the office of Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Lowell Police Superintendent Gregory Hudon said in a press release.

Louisiana lawmakers raced to eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional seats in the state after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the current map unconstitutional in a sweeping decision last month that severely weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Following that ruling, and just days before early voting was set to begin and with tens of thousands of voters having already returned mail ballots, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry pushed to delay the House primary elections scheduled for May 16, allowing the legislature to redraw the map. The rescheduled primaries are now set for Nov. 3.

The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, near Quantico, Virginia. All five of the people who died were in vehicles hit by the bus, and 44 people were taken to hospitals, including three in critical condition, police said.

During the trial, it was also revealed that Uribe leaked information about upcoming drug raids to a person she knew was involved with drug dealing, while she was a member of the task force, according to the news release. Cellphone text messages recovered in the operation from the drug dealer's phone revealed that Uribe was sharing sensitive information, including the time and location of the possible drug raids and how many units would be responding.

In 1956, a Hungarian teenager named Istvan packed up his most important possessions, wrote a letter to his parents and fled the country in the dead of night. He told no one he was going, and said nothing about his destination. All he left behind was a letter of explanation and a secret codename, to be used to communicate through an illegal radio station.

Despite a handful of states in the West where overdose deaths are surging, overall street drug fatalities in the U.S. continued to drop at a historic rate in 2025, falling roughly 14 percent compared with 2024. In all, 69,973 people died from fatal overdoses last year nationwide, according to the latest preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While that toll is painful, it means roughly 11,300 fewer people lost their lives to drugs compared with the year before.

U.S. forces shot down Iranian drones near the Strait of Hormuz and struck an area along Iran's coast overnight, according to a U.S. official who spoke to NPR. In retaliation for the attack on Bandar Abbas, Iran's Revolutionary Guard says this morning it targeted the American base that launched the attack. U.S. and Iran peace talks continue.

“I went down and I just told the Lord, I said, if you want me to be a pastor, I'll be a pastor,” Click recounted in an interview. He did become a Baptist pastor and later, a lawmaker. Click, 60, is a three-term Ohio legislator. God created three institutions, he says: the family, the home and the government. “As good stewards, we should be involved in all of those, to one extent or the other,” Click says.

In response, I heard from people abroad who were mystified that Americans venerate and think they ought to be governed by a document more than two centuries old.

People in Longview, Wash., have been waiting for what feels like forever for something to go terribly wrong in one of the paper mills that line the Columbia River. The plants that fuel the economy in southwest Washington came for the ample timber in the Pacific Northwest's mountains, the cheap electricity powered by the region's mighty rivers and the ocean access at the Columbia's mouth. But they rely on technology that is dangerous, expensive to maintain and dependent on potentially toxic chemicals.

Jacobs charged with battery (domestic abuse, criminal damage to property), domestic abuse, disorderly conduct (domestic abuse, strangulation and suffocation) and intimidation of a victim. Records obtained by ESPN indicated at the time that Jacobs was held without bond. The report continued: The Hobart-Lawrence PD was dispatched to the alleged disturbance involving Jacobs on Saturday. This remains an active and ongoing investigation. No further information will be released at this time, Michael Renkas, chief of the Hobart-Lawrence PD said in a statement.

NPR has laid off 10 journalists, including some veteran reporters, in an attempt to save money and reorganize the newsroom. It also is buying out at least 18 news staffers who voluntarily accepted offers to depart, according to three people with direct knowledge. (The people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of speaking publicly about internal network matters) The network intends to leave eight empty positions unfilled.

Biden’s lawyers said in a lawsuit filed in Washington’s federal court that the Justice Department plans to release the files to Congress and a conservative group, the Heritage Foundation, after the department had previously argued that they were exempt from disclosure under the public records law. Biden’s lawyers argued that the disclosure would “constitute an unwarranted invasion of President Biden’s privacy.”

The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its capacity to scan irises as part of its mass deportation efforts, a move that has raised concerns among privacy experts that the agency, flush with an influx of funding, is gathering biometric data from people it detains. The agency awarded a $25 million no-bid contract last week to BI2 Technologies, a company that specializes in iris scanning. The new contract is more than five times the amount of the company's last DHS contract, awarded last fall.

The new film Pressure is a lightly fictionalized version of the actual lead-up to the D-Day invasion of France by Allied troops during World War II, and the crucial role of meteorologists in deciding when that battle would happen. And it stars some big names. Andrew Scott, most recently of Ripley fame, plays James Stagg, a Scottish meteorologist who is tasked with pulling together a D-Day weather forecast for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, played by Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser.

“The Prayer at Valley Forge” is a poignant portrayal of George Washington during one of the most critical moments in the American Revolution. In the harsh winter of 1777-78, amidst the immense hardships faced by the Continental Army at Valley Forge, many believe Washington knelt in a moment of solitary prayer, seeking guidance and strength from God.”

He was taken to the execution chamber, where the state of Tennessee began the process of putting him to death, but it failed to finish what it started. Carruthers was not killed and he lived to tell about it. He became the ninth person to survive a failed execution in the last 80 years. Botched executions are by now quite common in the United States. But on most of those occasions, the people whose executions go awry end up dead. But not Tony Carruthers.

Sean Brewer, 58, is also charged with illegally owning a firearm and ammunition in connection with the shooting death of Jacklyn Berry, 47. He appeared in an East Boston courthouse Tuesday and was ordered held at Suffolk County Jail in lieu of posting $100,000 cash bail, court records show. Brewer's defense attorney was not immediately available for comment.

Isai “N” - who was wanted in the U.S. - was arrested in the border city of Nogales, Secretary Omar Harfuch, the head of Security and Citizen Protection, said in a post on X.

Karl Anthony-Towns had 19 points and 14 rebounds, OG Anunoby scored 17 and the New York Knicks routed the Cleveland Cavaliers 130-93 Monday night to complete a four-game sweep of the Eastern Conference finals and advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999. Landry Shamet scored 16 off the bench while Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson had 15 apiece for the Knicks, who became the fourth team to have an 11-game winning streak during their postseason run. The last to do it was Golden State, which had a 15-game run en route to its second title in three seasons in 2017.

Davis works for Delta Air Lines on the ramp, as airlines call the bustling area of pavement between the terminal and the taxiway. He's waiting when the jet pulls up, and bags start rolling down the conveyor belt. Davis grabs two suitcases off the belt, pulls out a handheld computer that looks like an extra-rugged iPad, and scans the bar codes on the luggage tags. "Now I take it, I scan it, it gives me a green scan sign saying it's A-okay," Davis said.

Justice Department news releases that detailed guilty pleas, jury verdicts and prison sentences abruptly disappeared from government websites last week. The removals mark the latest phase of Trump's effort to rewrite the history of the violent riot. A review by NPR found that the deleted material included information about some of the most serious assaults on law enforcement that occurred that day. NPR maintains the most complete database and visual archive of the Jan. 6 prosecutions.

“For me it's important to call it women's empowerment in public spaces, ” she says. “After two weeks I felt I was changing - not just in sports but my mental health and everything,” says Aisha Saqqa, 18, and a first-year business management student in college. “Mirella told us to act differently.” That includes noticing their surroundings in public instead of striving to not be noticed, keeping their heads up and making eye contact. It also includes using their voices, a challenge for some girls raised to be quiet.

Leaders of the California State University system, the CSU, want it to become the nation's first artificial intelligence-powered institution of its kind. It entered into a $17 million no-bid contract with OpenAI last year to provide students, faculty and staff with a new resource: ChatGPT Edu a version of the popular generative AI chatbot intended for use by educational institutions. The system recently renewed that contract for another $13 million a year for the next three years.