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Judge finds Mike Lindell in contempt for failing to turn over documents in Smartmatic defamation case

Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge in Minnesota has found MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell in contempt of court for failing to provide discovery and financial documents in the defamation case brought by voting machine company Smartmatic.Smartmatic sued Lindell for defamation in 2022, alleging that he lied about the company's role in the 2020 presidential election for his own financial gain.In a filing on Thursday, Judge Jeffrey M. Bryan said Lindell failed to produce analytics data for […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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2 California hikers rescued after being stranded on snowy mountain for 3 days

River County Sheriff's Aviation Unit(IDYLLWILD, Calif.) -- Two hikers who were stranded for three days after falling down a snowy cliff were rescued on Monday near Idyllwild, California, the Riverside Sheriff Aviation Unit said in a statement Tuesday.The climbers -- one man and one woman -- were traveling along the Tahquitz Mountain trail on March 1 when they suddenly plummeted approximately 800 feet down a snowy cliff, located about 8,900 feet above Idyllwild, California, according to officials.The hikers called 911, […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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Judge denies request from USAID contractors to block mass termination of their contracts

J. David Ake/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Thursday denied a request from U.S. Agency for International Development contractors to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration's mass termination of their contracts.The Personal Service Contractor Association, an advocacy group for U.S. personal services contractors employed by USAID, filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last month after the secretary of state issued a stop-work order for all foreign assistance and contracts.The contractors alleged the stop-work order prevented the association's […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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Trump won’t sign executive order to dissolve Department of Education today: Sources

Win McNamee/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Thursday pulled the expected signing of the executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, multiple sources tell ABC News.A draft of the executive order called on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate a department closure by taking all necessary steps "permitted by law," sources had earlier told ABC News.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt quoted a news report saying it was "fake news" that Trump was expected to […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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Judge blocks Trump administration from freezing federal funding without congressional approval

ftwitty/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Thursday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration from freezing federal funding without going through Congress -- offering a scathing critique of what he said was the White House's attempt to disrupt the separation of powers.The judge, U.S. District Judge John McConnell, had already issued a temporary order in January blocking the freeze. Thursday's injunction effectively finalized that order and will allow the Trump administration to appeal the ruling -- though they […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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New cross-country storm targets West Coast, Plains and Midwest: Latest forecast

Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A deadly storm wreaked havoc across the eastern half of the U.S., bringing blizzard conditions to the Midwest, tornadoes to the South and torrential rain to the Northeast -- and a new storm is on the move.In the South, they are cleaning up after the wild weather produced up to 428 damaging storm reports from Texas to Maryland, including at least 14 reported tornadoes.Three fatalities were reported in Mississippi, according to state officials.In […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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Idaho college killings: Kohberger lawyers seek to block talk of ‘bushy eyebrows’

ABC NewsLawyers for the man accused of killing four Idaho college students are asking the judge in his capital murder case to ban a key witness from using the phrase "bushy eyebrows" to describe the assailant she saw the night of the bloody attack.That request was included in roughly 100 pages of court filings unsealed Tuesday as preparations continue in advance of the August trial of Bryan Kohberger, who's charged in the November 2022 killings of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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Exclusive jailhouse ABC interview with Tupac Shakur murder suspect

ABC NewsThe only man ever charged in the notorious Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur insists he is "innocent," being railroaded by authorities and that he only confessed to his purported role in the crime because he was getting paid to lie.In his first interview since being arrested in September 2023, Duane "Keffe D" Davis told ABC News in a jailhouse interview that he should be at home, watching his grandchildren grow up and tending to his garden. Instead, […]

todayMarch 6, 2025

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Ex-FEMA official who was fired over migrants staying in ‘luxury’ hotels files lawsuit

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) --  A former top FEMA official who was removed as part of the political blowback over payments to New York City for housing migrants in what critics called "luxury hotels" has sued the Trump administration, alleging she was "unlawfully terminated from her position" without due process.Mary Comans, who served as the FEMA's chief financial officer since 2017, claims in the suit that her firing led to her being "falsely condemned online" by prominent individuals including tech billionaire Elon Musk, […]

todayMarch 5, 2025

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