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A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, accusing the Justice Department of using its investigatory powers to retaliate against state officials for not cooperating with federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. In a ruling unsealed Monday, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz found the “dominant purpose” of the subpoenas was to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting the federal government with enforcing civil immigration law and to harass and retaliate agai

Federal judge halts Trump administration effort to subpoena Walz in immigration enforcement probe

Judge says Trump DOJ subpoenas of Tim Walz and other Democrats are unconstitutional

Mexico's president seeks to restart oil shipments to Cuba as island's crises deepen

Merlin the duck steals the spotlight at President Sheinbaum's news briefing

Wearing the green jersey of Mexico’s national soccer team and a FIFA tie, he waddled into the room ahead of President Claudia Sheinbaum, took a seat facing reporters and quickly became the star of her Monday morning news briefing. Merlín the duck — Mexico’s unofficial World Cup mascot — didn’t take any questions; his owner, Carla Gómez, did that for him. Gómez, a street vendor who sells water and soft drinks, introduced her family with pride and determination, presenting them as representative of countless other working-class Mexicans. “We are the wo

Porsche CEO confirms forecast despite persistent challenges, speech text shows

U.S. tech megacaps slide as SpaceX extends slump, AI expense concerns grow

Jury trial for mom charged in ‘horrific’ Kinsleigh Welty death case begins

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) -- The mother charged with murder in the “horrific” death of her 5-year-old daughter Kinsleigh Welty will appear in court Monday for the start of her jury trial.Toni McClure, 31, was arrested and charged with murder, criminal confinement, and battery of a person under 14 following the girl’s death in April 2024.News 8 previously reported that Welty was found dead in her southwest side home.McClure later admitted to police that for several months she had been keeping her daughter locked in a closet in her mobile home. Doctors say the girl weigh

US judge blocks subpoenas to Minnesota officials in DOJ immigration probe

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Supreme Court restores conviction in infamous murder of Etan Patz

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with New York prosecutors and declined to invalidate the conviction of a man who confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, reversing a lower court decision that likely would have required a new trial.Patz disappeared on the morning of May 25, 1979, the first time his parents allowed him to walk by himself to his bus stop about a block away from his home in SoHo. The disappearance sparked a highly publicized search for the boy, and brought national attention to cases of missing children across the country after authorities put his image on thousands of

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Supreme Court reinstates murder conviction in case of Etan Patz, missing New York City boy

The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict. The three liberal justices dissented. Prosecutors had been preparing to try the man, Pedro Hernandez, for a third time. His first trial ended in a mistrial. The unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed Hernandez’ murder and kidnapping conviction i

Tornado spotted in Illinois as severe storms sweep through the Midwest

Alan Greenspan, former head of Federal Reserve, dies at 100

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Trump’s Iran agreement embraces sanctions relief, a policy he and his team once denounced

For years, President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance argued against deals that provided financial concessions to Iran, saying that giving the regime money fuels terror. But now the agreement they’ve reached to end the war with Tehran is poised to hand the regime billions.For the better part of a decade, Trump’s central indictment of former President Barack Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was simple: Giving Tehran access to frozen assets enriched a dangerous regime and got the United States little in return.Trump’s current secretary of state and vice p

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DOJ may be able to release potentially embarrassing Biden audio recordings unless courts step in

Former President Joe Biden is in an uphill battle to try to stop the Justice Department from sharing recordings it collected of him speaking to his ghostwriter in 2016 and 2017, during which his speech and memory faltered.Court decisions on Friday and into next month are poised to revive questions over Biden’s mental acuity during his presidency — and even in the years before.The Justice Department is set to provide about two hours of recordings of Biden speaking to writer Mark Zwonitzer to the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in the next three weeks, unless a court steps in to blo

Man falls to death during Goose concert at Madison Square Garden, NYPD says

Tornadoes kill 3 in the Midwest, Plains as storm threat shifts east

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Former Wimbledon champion Vondrousova suspended for 4 years for refusing doping test

Former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova was suspended for four years on Monday for refusing an anti-doping test. The Czech cited “mental stress” and fear when the testing agent “rang my door late at night without properly identifying themselves.” The International Tennis Integrity Agency made the announcement, saying Vondrousova refused a test in December and the maximum four-year ban for a routine first offense was reached by an independent tribunal following a hearing this month. Vondrousova became Wimbledon’s first uns

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Northern Ireland's former unionist leader convicted of decades-old child sexual abuse

Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of Northern Ireland’s largest unionist party, was convicted Monday of rape and sex abuse charges involving two girls decades ago. Donaldson, 63, was found guilty at Newry Crown Court of one count of rape, four counts of gross indecency and 13 indecent assault charges involving two girls from 1985 to 2008. He showed no emotion as the verdicts were read or when Judge Paul Ramsey said Donaldson would face a lengthy prison sentence later in the year and had him taken to jail. A pre-sentencing hearing was scheduled for Sept. 25.

Elected on a promise of better times, Keir Starmer failed to deliver the change Britain wants

Lionel Messi makes history as the World Cup’s all-time top scorer

France restricts public drinking as Europe swelters under a ‘heat-dome driven furnace’ for the second time in two months

Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, bringing dangerous conditions across swaths of the planet’s fastest-warming continent. France banned public alcohol consumption, Spain closed a World Cup fan zone and the UK is bracing for an annihilation of its all-time June temperature record.Heat alerts were posted Monday by 26 countries, from Ireland to Greece, as soaring temperatures deliver one of Western Europe’s worst June heat waves on record.The punishing temperatures are the result of a heat dome parked over the

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Thirteen drown across France as people seek relief from European heatwave

Three elderly people died as extreme temperatures hit France, and 13 swimmers were reported drowned as they tried to escape a heatwave that swept on across Europe, where authorities issued warnings for the days ahead.Thousands of schools in France closed or modified timetables on Monday and forecasters in Britain predicted temperatures could smash records for June this week."We’re heading for, at the very least, several days of very, very hot weather. We don’t know when temperatures will start falling," French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said on TV channel TF1."Swim only in places that

China targets US rare earth and other firms with export controls

Ten years on, Britain counts the cost of Brexit

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Iran's challenges at World Cup swirl outside draw with Belgium

Economists have long pushed for prediction markets. The reality is not what they’d hoped for

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People caught vandalizing Washington Reflecting Pool to be fully prosecuted, US Attorney Pirro says

People caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washington’s National Mall will be fully prosecuted, U.S.

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Optimism after first talks as US waives Iran sanctions and Lebanon fighting abates

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Alan Greenspan dies at 100

Economist and former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has died at 100-years-old, according to his wife, Andrea Mitchell.

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Trump says Starmer will resign as UK prime minister

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls