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A police line is seen outside a damaged American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic after a bomb blast outside the building in Palm Springs

Man charged with supplying chemicals in California fertility clinic bombing has died in custody, officials say

By Josh Campbell, Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Daniel Jongyon Park — a man federal authorities said provided chemicals to make explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May — has died, according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. On Tuesday “at approximately 7:30 a.m., Daniel Park was found unresponsive

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A view of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport

Florida to detain migrants in new Everglades facility dubbed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

By Karina Tsui, Isabel Rosales, CNN (CNN) — Florida this week started construction on a migrant detention facility the state is billing as “efficient” and “low-cost” – because Mother Nature will provide much of the security. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier calls it, is being erected on a little-used airstrip in the

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Elijah Millar is arrested by Metro Nashville Police Department officers after he allegedly brandished a gun and harassed demonstrators during a "No Kings" protest in Nashville on June 14.

Man facing federal firearms charge after allegedly brandishing a gun at Nashville ‘No Kings’ protest

By Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A teenager from central Tennessee is facing a federal firearms charge after allegedly brandishing a gun at a “No Kings’ protest in Nashville, the Department of Justice announced Monday. Elijah Millar, 19, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, attended the June 14 protest near Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in downtown Nashville,

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Residents of the historic Pullman neighborhood celebrate Juneteenth during a parade and block party hosted by the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Chicago on Thursday.

Trump used Juneteenth to denounce ‘nonworking holidays.’ Some political observers say it wasn’t a coincidence

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN (CNN) — For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in America” costing the country “billions of dollars,” was no surprise. Harris said the comments coming on the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States

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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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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seal hangs on a fence at the agency's headquarters in Washington

Iran could ‘target’ US officials if Tehran believes regime’s survival at risk, DHS says

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Iran could try to “target” US government officials if Iranian leaders believe “the stability or survivability” of their regime is at risk, according to a new Department of Homeland Security bulletin obtained by CNN. Other scenarios for potential Iranian targeting of US officials include if Tehran considers them to

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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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