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Narciso Barranco was detained by US Border Patrol agents while working as a landscaper at an IHOP in Santa Ana

Marine Corps veteran says he feels betrayed after his father was arrested by masked federal agents in Southern California

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A Marine Corps veteran says he feels betrayed after his father was beaten and arrested by masked federal agents while working at his landscaping job, caught up in one of the ongoing ICE workplace raids that advocates say have left immigrant communities terrified and on edge. Alejandro Barranco told

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American Airlines planes on the tarmac at Miami International Airport on February 19.

5 injured due to turbulence on American Airlines flight

By Pete Muntean, Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — Five people were transported to the hospital Sunday after their American Airlines flight experienced “unexpected turbulence.” American Airlines flight 1286, an Airbus A321, from Miami to Raleigh-Durham landed safely Sunday evening after experiencing the turbulence, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. A passenger on the flight

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Prosecutor Hank Brennan

Evidence in Karen Read’s case led to ‘only one person,’ prosecutor says in first statement since her acquittal

By Dakin Andone, Jean Casarez, CNN (CNN) — The special prosecutor who led the retrial of Karen Read is “disappointed” in the jury’s decision last week acquitting Read of killing her police officer boyfriend – saying Monday in his first statement since the verdict that “the evidence led to one person, and only one person.”

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President Donald Trump in the Situation Room at the White House in Washington

Did Trump violate the Constitution by bombing Iran?

CNN By Paula Reid, Evan Perez, Kylie Atwood, Devan Cole and Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s order to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities presents a new test of the Constitution and the extent of presidential powers to conduct war despite a lack of congressional approval. The administration is relying on the president’s authority

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Start your week smart: US strikes Iran, Pride rollbacks, Tesla robotaxis, NATO summit, Bezos’ wedding

By Andrew Torgan, Morgan Severson, CNN (CNN) — If everything goes according to plan, Tesla’s long-awaited robotaxi service will roll out today in Austin, Texas. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk, who’s been talking about robotaxis for years, has cautioned that the launch date isn’t set in stone. Musk, of course, is also CEO of SpaceX — and has

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Pride Month marches on, despite frustration and worry from LGBTQ community over government actions

By Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — Pride Month is designed to bring attention to the LGBTQ community in the United States, and this year’s events included the same parades, music, laughter and rainbow-colored displays of every kind across the nation. But Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling on gender-affirming care for transgender youth was the kind of

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Mahmoud Khalil – a Palestinian activist at the center of a long-running deportation fight – has been released from the Louisiana ICE detention center.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife, newborn son after spending months at a Louisiana detention center

CNN By Mark Morales, Dalia Faheid, Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — After missing the birth of his child, his first Father’s Day and spending more than three months away from his family, Mahmoud Khalil has been reunited with his loved ones. The Palestinian activist arrived in Newark, New Jersey, Saturday afternoon, a day after he

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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement and FBI agents outside federal immigration court on Tuesday in New York.

Masked ICE officers: The new calling card of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

By Ray Sanchez and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — When New York City Comptroller Brad Lander returned to a Manhattan immigration courthouse on Friday, days after being arrested while escorting an immigrant whom federal agents detained, he said he again witnessed “a deeply dehumanizing process.” “We saw three people removed by the same non-uniformed, masked

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Suspect in Minnesota lawmaker attacks was a ‘prepper’ who had drafted a ‘bailout plan’ for wife, according to court filing

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — The man charged in the killings of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband one week ago was a “prepper” and had at some point given his wife a “bailout plan” in case of “exigent circumstances,” according to an FBI agent investigating the case. The term “prepper” refers generally to

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Border Patrol agents stand at Gate E of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

The Dodgers say ICE tried to enter its stadium grounds. The federal agency calls the report ‘false’: Here’s what we know

By Natasha Chen, Kyle Feldscher, Diego Mendoza, Martin Goillandeau and Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — Details from community members and law enforcement have emerged about what unfolded in Los Angeles Thursday as federal agents were seen just outside the vast Dodger Stadium parking lot. The news had sparked concerns that the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

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Mahmoud Khalil attends a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York in  April 2024.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife, newborn son after spending months at a Louisiana detention center

By Mark Morales, Dalia Faheid, Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — After missing the birth of his child, his first Father’s Day and spending more than three months away from his family, Mahmoud Khalil has been reunited with his loved ones. The Palestinian activist arrived in Newark, New Jersey, Saturday afternoon, a day after he was

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5 things to know for June 20: Israel-Iran, Hurricane Erick, National Guard, Minnesota shooting, Serial rapist

By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Raging wars. Climate change. Natural disasters. Global pandemics. These issues and others have some preparing for the worst. They’re stockpiling food and water, purchasing guns and medicines, assembling “bug-out bags” and listening to survivalist podcasts. Yet despite what you might imagine when someone says the word “prepper,” many of

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