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Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday heard arguments about whether to temporarily block the state of Texas from enacting a sweeping and controversial new immigration law while further litigation plays out. The state’s Senate Bill 4, also known as SB4, allows Texas authorities to arrest unauthorized immigrants […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Christian Dedmon was sentenced to 40 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday for his role in two attacks, including the torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Dedmon received the maximum sentence […]
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake is gearing up for a likely contest against Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, one she’s warned will get “nasty,” by leaning into former President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies. “I’m going to spend the next seven months working my tail off. You all know I […]
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is pushing back on Donald Trump’s “extraordinary” request for a stay of his $464 million civil fraud judgment, arguing the former president’s recent request was unreliable, procedurally improper and based on a flawed premise. “There is nothing unusual about even billion-dollar judgments […]
Scott Olson/Getty Image (WASHINGTON) — Now two weeks after she ended her 2024 presidential campaign, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley continues to win some votes against Donald Trump in the Republican primary, despite the former president clinching the party’s nomination on March 12. It remains unclear how many of these anti-Trump votes were cast early, […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee on Wednesday cleared the way for former President Donald Trump to appeal the judge’s ruling that ultimately kept Fulton County DA Fani Willis on the election interference case. McAfee granted the joint request from Trump and some of his codefendants to obtain a certificate of […]
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address Republican senators via a video conference at their conference lunch Wednesday — a move that comes days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Israel to hold a new election seen as a way to replace Netanyahu. Senate Republican Conference Chair John […]
Salt Lake City Police Department (SALT LAKE CITY) — Six people were injured, including one critically, after a fight broke out outside a funeral home in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, authorities said. Police received multiple reports around 1:30 p.m. MT of a fight and stabbing at a funeral home in downtown Salt Lake City, […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday for his role in torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Opdyke is the third to be sentenced out […]
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a decision late Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision that again blocks Texas from enforcing its strict immigration law, SB4. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court rejected a Biden administration request to intervene and keep Texas’s strict immigration enforcement law on hold while it is […]
