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Rob and Michele Reiner's son Nick faces 1st degree murder charges, death penalty on table

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Los Angeles prosecutors announced Tuesday that Nick Reiner will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the brutal stabbing deaths of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner.

The charges are punishable by life in prison without parole or the death penalty, which District Attorney Nathan ...Read more

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California curtails effort to find young wolves whose parents were euthanized

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Wildlife managers have significantly pared back their efforts to find three juvenile gray wolves who are the last remaining members of a pack that had established itself in the Sierra Valley ranch lands north of Truckee, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday.

Three adult wolves and one juvenile from the same group, the ...Read more

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Report: Killing Haiti gang members is short-term solution; groups must be dismantled

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As the United States prepares to bolster Haiti’s fight against increasingly brutal armed gangs, a new report is urging officials and mission planners to heed the lessons of the recent Kenya-led security mission and warns that suppressing gangs cannot be reduced solely to killing their members.

Previous efforts in Haiti, the International ...Read more

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Trump expands countries with US travel restrictions

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump added 20 countries to those facing either full or partial travel restrictions Tuesday, in a proclamation that says the U.S. must exercise “extreme vigilance” during the visa and immigration processes for national security.

The proclamation issued Tuesday added five countries and the Palestinian ...Read more

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Providence Police release new picture in connection with mass shooting investigation

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Providence, Rhode Island, police have released a new image of the person wanted for questioning in connection with the deadly mass shooting at Brown University.

The Providence Police Department on Tuesday afternoon circulated the new image of a man in a green and dark top, mask and black hat walking down the street. The image is blurry but ...Read more

Eaton fire survivors ask Edison for emergency housing relief

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LOS ANGELES — A coalition of Eaton fire survivors and community groups called on Southern California Edison on Tuesday to provide immediate housing assistance to the thousands of people who lost their homes in the Jan. 7 wildfire.

The coalition says an increasing number of Altadena residents are running out of insurance coverage that had been...Read more

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Pa. school in shadow of toxic landfill finds PFAS in its water

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Residential waste, construction and demolition debris, as well as sewage treatment plant sludge, were dumped for decades at the 30-acre Boyertown Sanitary Landfill in northern Montgomery County until it was capped in 1987.

As state and federal officials mull whether to add the landfill to the national Superfund list, a well used by nearby ...Read more

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Rubio, Hegseth refuse release of ‘double-tap’ strike footage after Congress briefing

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted they won’t release the full video of the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat and controversial second strike on survivors after briefing members of Congress on Tuesday morning ...Read more

Sharks and torpedo rays wash up dead along Cape Cod: 'Very sad'

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It’s been a busy time for marine wildlife rescuers and researchers, as more sharks were recently found dead along the Cape shoreline.

The sharks this time of year are trying to navigate out of Cape Cod Bay to warmer southern waters, but sometimes they take a wrong turn and get stuck.

One of those recently stranded sharks was a female ...Read more

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New York police tried to interview Mangione on night of arrest

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NEW YORK — Hours after Luigi Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, New York Police Department officers tried to interview him as the prime suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive Brian Thompson.

NYPD Lt. David Leonardi testified that after learning Altoona police arrested Mangione in a local McDonald’s, ...Read more

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Woman trampled during shooting at Chiefs Super Bowl rally sues city, event organizers

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City woman is suing the city and a slew of event organizers, saying she was trampled as people fled from gunfire at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade and rally in February 2024.

Alexandrea Springfield is seeking amounts in excess of $25,000 for negligence and premises liability, according to a lawsuit filed ...Read more

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NC Sen. Thom Tillis says it's time to move on from Trump-nominated Mark Walker

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis said Tuesday he believes that the Senate needs to move on from the nomination of former Rep. Mark Walker for ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.

Tillis’ comments to McClatchy come as Walker and his allies have put pressure on senators through social media and news outlets to get his ...Read more

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Trump weighs pressuring defense firms to cut buybacks, dividends

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is weighing an executive order that would pressure defense contractors to spend less on stock buybacks and dividends while boosting investment in infrastructure and weapons production, a person familiar with the matter said.

The executive order, which President Donald Trump could sign as early as this ...Read more

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Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents return to Chicago in show of force across city and suburbs

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CHICAGO — Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and dozens of federal immigration agents returned in force across Chicago and the suburbs Tuesday for a seemingly made-for-television jaunt about a month after he and scores of Border Patrol agents left town.

At least 100 U.S. Homeland Security agents or officers, including Bovino, were active in ...Read more

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Boston Mayor Wu's tax battle with Senate dividing residents bracing for 13% tax hike: 'Creating tension and hate'

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Boston residents are saying Mayor Michelle Wu’s two-year battle with the state Senate over a stalled plan to hike commercial taxes is causing them stress at a time when homeowners are bracing for a 13% increase in their property taxes.

No matter where they stand on the mayor’s legislation to shift more of the city’s tax burden onto ...Read more

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White House defends chief of staff Wiles after tell-all profile

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s chief of staff is defending herself after granting an extraordinarily candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair in which she offers stinging judgments of the president himself and blunt assessments about his administration’s shortcomings.

The profile of Susie Wiles, Trump’s reserved, influential...Read more

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Illinois should recommend hepatitis B vaccines for all newborns, committee says, despite federal guidance

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Illinois should continue to recommend that nearly all newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, a state advisory committee decided Tuesday, in a move that could represent another break with federal vaccine guidance.

The Illinois Department of Public Health Immunization Advisory Committee voted unanimously Tuesday that Illinois “reaffirm and...Read more

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She fought segregation in 1951. Now her statue stands in the US Capitol

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WASHINGTON — Barbara Rose Johns was just 16 years old when she led her Farmville, Va., classmates in a student strike protesting unequal education. That 1951 student-led protest paved a path toward the Supreme Court and the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling desegregating public schools across the country.

On Tuesday, a bronze-...Read more

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Maryland special session ended with new House speaker, veto overrides

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The General Assembly convened Tuesday in Annapolis for a special session to elect a new speaker of the House of Delegates and override bills that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed during the last legislative session.

By the end of the one-day special session, Maryland lawmakers had elected Prince George’s County Democrat Del. Joseline Peña-...Read more

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A disabled Ecuadorian immigrant tried to flag down an ICE officer. Now he faces deportation

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Victor Acurio Suarez is 52 but childlike, born with developmental disabilities that have left him unable to live on his own.

He likes to talk to people, said his brother, who takes care of him. And on Sept. 22, in a Lowe’s parking lot near the brothers’ home in Seaford, Delaware, he tried to flag down an ICE agent, apparently thinking the ...Read more