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Video shows children fleeing from Annunciation Church after shooting

Video shows children fleeing from Annunciation Church after shooting

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Minneapolis shooter ‘expressed hate towards almost every group,’ official says 04:10 Vance says Minneapolis church shooting is part of ‘mental health crisis’ in America 01:41 Now Playing Video shows children fleeing from Annunciation Church after shooting 00:53 UP NEXT Officials recover 120 shell casings after …

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Trump eases rules for hiring temporary immigration judges

Trump eases rules for hiring temporary immigration judges

The Trump administration has taken another step in exerting more control over immigration courts by relaxing qualifications for the hiring of judges. On Thursday, the administration implemented a rule that allows the Justice Department to hire attorneys without immigration law experience to serve as temporary immigration judges. “This rule will enable the Director, with the approval of the Attorney General, …

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Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms

Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt offered full military funeral, Air Force confirms

The Air Force has offered full military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was fatally shot by police as she stormed the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot four years ago, officials said Thursday. Babbitt, 35, was an Air Force veteran who went to Washington to protest Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, her family has …

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Spikes, a tail weapon and a shield: Was this the world’s weirdest dinosaur?

Spikes, a tail weapon and a shield: Was this the world’s weirdest dinosaur?

“We just couldn’t believe how weird it was and how unlike any other dinosaur, or indeed any other animal we know of, alive or extinct,” said Richard Butler, project co-lead and a paleontologist at the University of Birmingham in England. The chance to see and study the Spicomellus fossils was “spine-tingling,” said Butler. It wasn’t just those involved in the …

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White House says it fired transportation regulator in latest move to reshape Trump government

White House says it fired transportation regulator in latest move to reshape Trump government

WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that it has fired a member of the Surface Transportation Board, a move that comes as the independent federal regulatory agency is considering the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroad companies. “Earlier this evening, I received an email from the White House purporting to terminate my position at the Surface …

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Fed governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over ‘unprecedented and illegal’ effort to fire her

Fed governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over ‘unprecedented and illegal’ effort to fire her

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Donald Trump on Thursday, the beginning of a landmark legal battle over what she calls Trump’s “unprecedented and illegal” efforts to remove her from the central bank and the committee that makes decisions about the nation’s interest rates. Cook also seeks an “emergency temporary restraining order, to remain in effect until such time …

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News group stopped sharing Gaza locations with Israel after ‘so many journalists’ killed in IDF strikes

News group stopped sharing Gaza locations with Israel after ‘so many journalists’ killed in IDF strikes

JERUSALEM — “So many journalists were killed in IDF strikes,” international news agency Reuters has told NBC News, that it stopped sharing the locations of its teams in the Gaza Strip with the Israeli military. The news agency’s cameraman, who regularly operated its live position on the roof of Nasser Hospital, was one of 5 journalists among 22 people killed …

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