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Trump files several motions to dismiss his classified documents case

Former President Donald Trump leaves the courtroom on the third day of his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on Oct. 4, 2023, in New York. -- Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump's legal team on Thursday filed a series of motions to dismiss the classified documents case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.The four motions argue that the case should be dismissed on the grounds of presidential immunity; that Smith's appointment as special […]

todayFebruary 23, 2024

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Three University of Wyoming swimmers killed in car crash

PBNJ Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Three members of the University of Wyoming swimming and diving team have died in a single-vehicle crash, according to the school.The accident happened on U.S. Highway 287, about 10 miles south of the Wyoming-Colorado border Thursday afternoon, according to the University of Wyoming. Two other members of the men's swimming and diving team were injured in the crash but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.The crash happened between Livermore and Virginia Dale, Colorado, […]

todayFebruary 23, 2024

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Texas county issues disaster declaration ahead of April total solar eclipse

Edwin Remsberg/Getty Images(KILLEEN, Texas) -- A small county in Texas is bracing for a state of emergency when hundreds of thousands of skywatchers are expected to flock to the South for the total solar eclipse in April.Bell County Judge David Blackburn issued a local disaster declaration this week, ahead of the April 8 natural phenomenon, saying the county's population of 400,000 residents is expected to double in tourists.The declaration allows Bell County to coordinate with the state's Department of Emergency […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg slams Arizona prosecutor who won’t extradite murder suspect: ‘Political games’

Surprise Police Department(NEW YORK) -- Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg criticized his Maricopa County, Arizona, counterpart who doesn't want to extradite a New York City murder suspect, saying she's playing "political games in a murder case."Raad Almansoori, 26, is in custody in Arizona, where he is charged in two stabbings. He is also the suspect in the death of Denisse Oleas-Arancibia, 38, who was found beaten and strangled at New York's SoHo 54 Hotel earlier this month.Bragg said he learned […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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Foul play suspected after woman who went for a run on university campus found dead: School

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(ATHENS, Ga.) -- Foul play is suspected after a woman who went for a run on the University of Georgia's Athens campus was found dead Thursday, school officials said.A friend reported the woman missing shortly after noon after she failed to return home from a run at the school's intramural fields earlier that morning, the university said.University police officers subsequently found her in a wooded area behind a lake near the fields "unconscious and not breathing" with "visible […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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Odysseus moon landing updates: What to know about 1st commercial moon landing

Intuitive Machines(HOUSTON) -- A Houston-based company is attempting to make the first-ever commercial moon landing on Thursday, and the first by a U.S.-built spacecraft in more than 50 years.Intuitive Machines' lander, named Odysseus, launched last week from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and entered lunar orbit on Wednesday.It will orbit the moon for about one day before beginning its descent and will attempt to soft-land near the south pole at 6:24 p.m. ET, according to NASA. However, video of […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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‘Disgusting’: MLK monument vandalized in Denver park during Black History Month

KMGH(DENVER) -- A monument honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., created by the nation's first African American NASA astronaut candidate, was vandalized in a Denver park this week by perpetrators who pried off a large bronze plaque and other pieces from the statue's pedestal, authorities said.The damage to the "I Have a Dream" monument in City Park occurred in the middle of Black History Month and was discovered Wednesday morning by a concerned citizen, according to Vern Howard, chairman […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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NASA seeks volunteers for a paid, yearlong simulated Mars mission

Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- The future of Mars exploration is on the horizon and NASA is recruiting citizen volunteers to help make that future a reality.NASA is recruiting qualified individuals to participate in a yearlong mission on a simulated version of the Red Planet, the agency announced this week.The volunteers will live and work at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, inside Mars Dune Alpha, a 1,700-square-foot, 3D-printed habitat."For the explorers, the adventurers, the people who love […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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Missing Virginia Tech student remains a mystery nearly 1 week on: ‘This is making sense to no one,’ his mom says

Montgomery County Sheriff's Office(BLACKSBURG, Va.) -- Nearly one week after Virginia Tech student Johnny Roop mysteriously vanished, his mother is desperate for answers, noting that the 20-year-old disappearing "is totally out of his nature."Authorities believe Roop left the Virginia Tech area on Feb. 16 on his own, and said there's no information leading them to believe he's in immediate danger."Our concern now is there's something that we're just not aware of, that mentally may have snapped. And I have no […]

todayFebruary 22, 2024

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