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By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — US District Judge Karin Immergut has ruled to extend her temporary restraining orders barring the deployment of the National Guard troops to Portland, keeping President Donald Trump’s federalization efforts in limbo as legal challenges unfold. The ruling by the Trump-appointed judge blocks the federal troops from deploying to Portland

By Andy Rose, Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Any mother adores getting phone calls from her children. For Josiele Berto, they are now a lifeline and the only way to know where her 13-year-old son is and what he’s facing alone. “I only talk to him – never to any official who could explain what

WCVB, X, @DHSGOV, CNN, X/@DHSGov By Andy Rose, Alessandra Freitas, CNN (CNN) — Any mother adores getting phone calls from her children. For Josiele Berto, they are now a lifeline and the only way to know where her 13-year-old son is and what he’s facing alone. “I only talk to him – never to any

By Martin Goillandeau, CNN (CNN) — Unauthorized pro-Palestinian political messages praising Hamas and attacking President Donald Trump and Israel’s prime minister were broadcast through public address systems in terminals at four airports in North America on Tuesday, disrupting operations and sparking investigations into the apparent hacks. Videos posted by passengers on social media show the

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Cody Balmer stood outside an iron fence surrounding the resolute brick mansion, waiting and watching the home where his target slept. In a bag, he had stuffed two beer bottles filled with gasoline and a weighty metal sledgehammer. In the early morning hours of April 13, he scaled the

By Cindy Von Quednow, Omar Jimenez, Whitney Wild, Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — US Border Patrol agents pursued and crashed into a vehicle as part of an immigration enforcement operation, leading to an angry response from community residents and the deployment of tear gas in Chicago’s far southeast side Tuesday. The tense standoff exemplifies tensions

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — An Arkansas father who killed his teen daughter’s alleged abuser has announced a bid for county sheriff, saying he’s running to fix a justice system that failed to protect her. Aaron Spencer faces a second-degree murder charge in last October’s fatal shooting of a man accused of grooming and

By Bill Kirkos, CNN Chicago (CNN) — Attorneys for a Chicago TV station employee detained by federal agents Friday dispute accusations from the Department of Homeland Security that she was taken into custody because she threw objects at a Border Patrol car, instead saying she was simply walking to a bus stop on her way

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the activist who championed transgender rights and protested in the historic Stonewall rebellion that galvanized the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, has died. She was 78. Griffin-Gracy died October 13 “in the comfort of her home and surrounded by loved ones in Little Rock, Arkansas,” according

By Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN (CNN) — A woman seen on a home surveillance video being taken by force by a man in Wichita, Kansas, has been located safely, police said Tuesday. Investigators said they received a call around 3 p.m. from a woman claiming to be the individual they had been trying to identify. Detectives

By Eric Levenson, Dianne Gallagher, Melissa Gray, Amir Vera, CNN (CNN) — For 87 years, the Murdaugh family name came to represent a legal dynasty in coastal South Carolina, where three successive generations controlled the local prosecutor’s office. But the family is now closely connected to a bloody tragedy, the embezzlement of millions of dollars

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the Starship launch system — the most powerful rocket ever constructed — on Monday evening. The test mission, which kicked off around 7:23 p.m. ET at SpaceX’s facilities in South Texas,