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At least 25 hospitalized after mass overdose in Baltimore

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At least 25 people were hospitalized Thursday following a “level one” mass overdose event in Baltimore.

Baltimore City police and fire officials said paramedics first responded to a 911 call for a single overdose around 9:25 a.m. in the Penn-North neighborhood. Upon arriving at the scene, they discovered multiple other people collapsed in ...Read more

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'We have your back.' Kemp vows support for Israeli hostages in Gaza

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ATLANTA — In a gesture of solidarity with Israel, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp met Thursday with the family of a 24-year-old Israeli who was kidnapped by Hamas gunmen during an October 2023 music festival and remains captive in Gaza.

Metro Atlanta’s Jewish community has symbolically “adopted” the cause of Evyatar David, who has endured ...Read more

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Colorado labor department reveals it's received four ICE immigration subpoenas -- but won't say if it complied

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The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment has received four immigration enforcement subpoenas from federal authorities this year — two more than it has publicly disclosed before, the agency confirmed to The Denver Post.

All four subpoenas were related to investigations by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, department spokeswoman ...Read more

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State Department begins layoffs after Supreme Court ruling

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The State Department announced plans to lay off some U.S.-based diplomats and other employees, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can go ahead with plans to slash the size of the federal workforce.

The decision, detailed in a memo by Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas, didn’t specify the number of State ...Read more

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Federal immigration agents carry out sweep at Ventura County cannabis farm

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Federal immigration agents were carrying out immigration sweeps in California's Ventura County on Thursday, prompting a standoff between authorities and immigrant rights groups.

Videos shared on social media show nearly a dozen agents using less-lethal ammunition on a crowd that had gathered near the intersection of Laguna and Wood roads, just ...Read more

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All eyes on Bolsonaro with Lula, Trump locked in trade fight

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As Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Donald Trump trade blows, the person they are fighting over has sent mixed signals to investors trying to divine who will blink first.

Jair Bolsonaro, Lula’s arch-nemesis, whose legal woes were the basis of Trump’s 50% tariff salvo, is barred from running against a rival who staged the kind of ...Read more

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Steve Bannon calls for special prosecutor to investigate Epstein files

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President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the federal files on late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The MAGA provocateur says he’s disappointed the Justice Department under President Trump has essentially reached the same conclusions as previous investigators regarding the ...Read more

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NYPD to fire 30 rookie cops who should have been disqualified by background checks

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NEW YORK — The NYPD is poised to fire 30 new officers who were never qualified to join the department in the first place, department officials said Thursday.

But the Police Benevolent Association union late Thursday obtained a court order temporarily blocking the department from proceeding with its plan, which stems from allegations that the ...Read more

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Why Trump’s legal strategies are working — some of the time

When President Donald Trump decided last month to send the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, many political and legal watchers were certain that courts would view the move as illegal, a belief that was quickly shattered when a panel ...Read more

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Lawmakers sue to force DeSantis to grant unannounced Alligator Alcatraz visits

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Five Democratic lawmakers turned away from Alligator Alcatraz last week are asking the Florida Supreme Court to force the DeSantis administration to allow unannounced visits to the migrant detention center in the Everglades.

In a petition filed Thursday with the state’s high court, the lawmakers argued that a state statute authorizing members...Read more

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S&P 500 rises to record as Treasury sale goes well: Markets wrap

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Relative calm enveloped Wall Street, with stocks rising as traders parsed a batch of corporate outlooks. Treasuries bounced from session lows as a $22 billion sale of 30-year bonds showed appetite for longer-term debt despite concerns about the U.S. deficit and the impacts of tariffs.

Just a few days ahead of the unofficial start of the ...Read more

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Gwinnett drops charges against Spanish-language reporter in ICE custody

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ATLANTA — The Office of the Gwinnett County Solicitor General has dropped misdemeanor charges against Mario Guevara, a Spanish-language journalist known for reporting on, and livestreaming immigration agents at work in metro Atlanta to a wide audience on social media.

Gwinnett officials had charged Guevara with three misdemeanors that seem to...Read more

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ICE Boston will try to deport migrant who allegedly raped woman and threatened to report her to ICE

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BOSTON — ICE Boston says the feds will try to deport the illegal immigrant accused of raping a woman at knifepoint and then threatening to report her to ICE if she contacted police.

Chelsea man Alfredo Romero-Argentina, aka Alfredo Romero-Cortez, 48, was recently arrested after allegedly assaulting and raping a 35-year-old woman on July 4.

...Read more

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Concerns mount in Florida over Trump's funding freeze affecting after-school programs

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Officials raised concerns Thursday about how a federal funding freeze could affect school-related programs in South Florida — with the expected loss of tens of millions of dollars this upcoming academic year.

U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, a South Florida Democrat, joined Palm Beach County School Board member Virginia Savietto and Boys & Girls Clubs...Read more

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Cal State LA allows online classes, excused absences as students express fear amid ICE raids

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Leaders at Cal State LA said this week that professors may move their classes online amid growing fears over immigration raids voiced by students at the campus east of downtown.

In a letter to faculty, the university provost said that after hearing from students "scared to take public transit and fearful of driving to campus," leaders ...Read more

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Whistle-blower backs up claim Trump official planned to defy judge's order

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A whistle-blower Thursday released a trove of messages backing up his claim that a top Trump Justice Department official discussed plans to defy federal judges’ orders in a high-profile mass deportation case.

The texts and and emails released by fired prosecutor Erez Reuveni suggest Emil Bove, a principal associate deputy attorney general, ...Read more

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Trump praises Fetterman for saying calls to abolish ICE are “inappropriate and outrageous”

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U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Pa., is still tweeting about ICE after earning President Donald Trump’s praise Wednesday for slamming calls to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Fetterman said “ICE performs an important job for our country” in the first of a pair of posts uploaded to X on Thursday.

“Any calls to abolish ICE are...Read more

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Sen. Thom Tillis leaves Senate whip team amid One Big Beautiful Bill fallout

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Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, no longer plans to whip votes in his chamber for his party leadership.

In Congress, whips count votes and ensure the wishes of their party and leadership are followed.

“(Senator Tillis) and I had a discussion,” Majority Whip John Barrasso said Thursday, his team told McClatchy. “It was ...Read more

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Walmart recalls 850,000 water bottles because of blinding risk

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Walmart has recalled about 850,000 Ozark Trail 64-ounce stainless steel insulated water bottles because of the possibility of the lid forcefully ejecting and posing serious injury risks, including loss of vision.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission reports that the lid can shoot off after a person attempts to open the bottles when carbonated...Read more

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How Baltimore plans to spend at least $400 million on opioid crisis

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BALTIMORE — Thursday’s suspected overdoses in Baltimore’s Penn North neighborhood came just after city officials rolled out Mayor Brandon Scott’s plan to use hundreds of millions of dollars from settlements to tackle the city’s opioid crisis.

At a July 2 news conference, Scott announced that the new Mayor’s Office of Overdose ...Read more