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A fatal crash in the Hudson River on Thursday became the latest tragedy in a long line of helicopter accidents around New York City, with excited tourists turning to the popular attraction to get a unique vantage point of the Big Apple. Elaina Latona was one of the countless sightseers excited to take in the views of Manhattan from the air. Latona was invited by her friend on a last-minute chopper […]

The University of Wisconsin system and several state agencies failed to specifically track spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, Wisconsin's Legislative Audit Bureau (WLAB) recently revealed.The audits covered FY 2023-2024. As a result of this lack of tracking, WLAB, a state government agency, was forced to estimate what the institutions spent on these programs.WLAB stated in its audit of University of Wisconsin institutions that it estimates the system […]

A former governor and presidential candidate in Mexico serving a federal prison sentence in the U.S. for money laundering was deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week.Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 68, was removed by ICE on Wednesday and turned over to Mexican authorities, whom he was wanted by, the agency announced on Friday.Yarrington was the governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, from 1999 to 2005, and ran as a […]

Low-flying tour helicopters hovering over the skies of New York City are a familiar sight, but they could soon be a thing of the past if one congresswoman gets her way.Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said she wants to rein in or even stop the flights altogether after six people tragically lost their lives in a tour helicopter on Thursday. It follows a fatal tour helicopter flight that crashed into the […]

Lawyers for suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, an Ivy League graduate accused of gunning down Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City, have filed a motion in federal court asking the judge to block the Justice Department from pursuing the death penalty if he is convicted.Mangione's lawyers argued that the federal case, which was filed after New York prosecutors leveled their own murder and terrorism charges against him, […]

The Department of Justice on Friday said the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland-based Salvadoran immigrant wrongly deported to an El Salvador megaprison with hundreds of criminals and gang members last month, are unknown.The admission comes after the Supreme Court upheld a lower federal court's decision Thursday to facilitate Garcia's return from the Central American prison. It also comes after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the DOJ to […]

An immigration judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported from the United States due to his involvement in leading last year’s pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.Judge Jamee Comans ruled in Louisiana on Friday that Khalil, 30, can be deported, saying that the U.S. government met its burden of proof to remove him."I would like to quote what you said last time that there's nothing that's more important to […]

A New York City university has been slapped with a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging the New School's Parsons School of Design "allowed a climate of antisemitic hostility" in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre. The lawsuit was filed by the Dhillon Law Group on behalf of Brandon White, a recent Parsons graduate.The suit alleges that "the university failed to protect him from assault, slurs, and a prolonged campaign of […]

Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced a probe into the state's Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy this week after he ordered state police not to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement."[US Attorney General] Pam Bondi has made it clear, and so has our president, that we are to take all criminals, violent criminals and criminals, out of this country and to completely enforce federal law," Habba told Fox News' […]