Sonoma County Superior Court judge halts SSU and CSU leaders from eliminating academic programs

An L.A. judge denied the prosecutor’s attempt to cancel a resentencing petition, clearing the way for a potential release of Erik and Lyle Menendez. L.A. District Attorney Nathan Hochman accused the infamous brothers of telling numerous lies and questioned their self-defense claims.

UPDATE: As of April 27, 2025, four of the children previously listed below are no longer listed as missing. Dumorrgon Sullivan, Dorian Locke Vallinmaki, Ari Anderson, Antonia Thompson, and Hannah Geraci have been removed from the below listings.

An analysis by the National Alliance to End Homelessness shows that as many as 9 million people could become homeless if the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ends rental assistance.

UNION, NJ - A Union City pharmacy has agreed to pay $995,420 to resolve allegations that it improperly billed federal healthcare programs for medications it never dispensed, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced.

The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate funding for Head Start, a move that would cut early education for more than half a million of the nation’s neediest children and child care for their families.

Actor Ron Palillo, a heavy smoker who died of a heart attack in 2012, was devastated by the demise of his father decades before. But that tragic loss ultimately led to Pallilo’s success with his portrayal of Arnold Horshack, on the 1970s classic TV school-com, Welcome Back, Kotter.

GOP Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick claims he is “firmly committed to protecting” Medicaid. But when the opportunity arose to join a dozen of his Republican Congressional colleagues who signed a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson stating they would not support a final GOP budget that guts Medicaid, Fitzpatrick’s signature was conspicuously missing.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the country after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, federal officials said Friday.

NEWARK — Joseph Schwartz, 65, of Suffern, New York, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for his role in a $38 million employment tax fraud scheme involving nursing homes he operated across the country, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced.

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Other than those indigenous to this vast and blessed land, we are all immigrants here in the United States of America, with rights enshrined in the constitution, no matter our status. The frantic mass deportations pushed by the current administration have affected visa holders, asylum seekers, tourists, and legal citizens. Sweeping reforms have eliminated due process in a web of reinterpreting archaic laws like the Alien Enemies Act and have revoked Temporary Protection Statuses (TPS) , affecting hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

FARMINGDALE, NJ — A former Farmingdale, New Jersey resident has been sentenced to 192 months (16 years) in federal prison for orchestrating a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme that exploited federal pandemic relief programs intended to support struggling small businesses, according to U.S. Attorney Alina Habba.

As illegal crossings have dropped to 15-year lows along once-busy historic crossing points between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande, law enforcement officers are encountering large groups of illegal aliens in more remote areas of the Texas border.

The Social Security Administration is backing off a plan it announced in March to withhold 100% of many beneficiaries’ monthly payments to claw back money the government had allegedly overpaid them.

Ahwar Sultan, a second-year graduate student in comparative studies, speaks at a Thursday press conference organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, alongside other Ohio State student organizations. Credit: Sandra Fu | Photo Editor.

According to WRIC 8 News, the Richmond FBI has a warning for parents. It is against groups that are part of a violent network targeting children and manipulating them into recording themselves committing illegal and violent acts.

MORRIS COUNTY, NJ - A Newark man has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for stealing Social Security benefits intended for his missing girlfriend’s disabled son and for violating the conditions of a prior supervised release, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced.

A judge has entered a restraining order barring Glenna Bevin from any contact with her adopted son, Jonah Bevin, following his request that his adoptive parents, former Gov. Matt Bevin and Glenna Bevin, be ordered to have no contact with him.

In fewer than 100 days, the Trump administration has promoted drilling, mining and development of public lands while undercutting the science, scientists and laws that protect the environmental fabric of the West, conservationists say. The president maintains he is pursuing his agenda in the name of national security and a better life for Americans.

Republican Randy Fine is headed to Washington, D.C., to represent Florida’s 6th Congressional District. The district includes parts of six counties, including St. Johns, Flagler and Putnam.

It would have cost $9.6 billion to permanently house those staying in U.S. homeless shelters in 2022, according to a recently released study by the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

The judiciary holds too much power and Congress should curb its authority, Wyoming’s federal delegation argued in response to Equality State lawyers and retired judges who called on them to defend “American Rule of Law” from attacks by President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk.

Federal Authorities are battling Chinese Counterfeiters trying to flood our Borders with fakes, which they say pose a danger to US National Security and US citizens' safety and pocketbooks.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump administration directives that threatened to cut federal funding for public schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

To the delight of Wyoming’s top elected officials, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders Tuesday to “reinvigorate” U.S. coal, but whether deregulation can change the tide of market forces remains to be seen. During Trump’s first term in office, the coal industry continued to lose most of its electric utility market share to natural gas and spiraled into a series of bankruptcies .

HULETT—Jim Neiman says that the best-case scenario for his family’s timber mill at the base of the Bear Lodge Mountains is that it doesn’t shutter. The Crook County sawmill in 2022 shrunk to one shift to survive hard economic times and a dearth of available timber. Three years later, there are what appear to be major industry tailwinds: a pro-logging presidential order , prospective tariff hikes on Canadian timber and now a U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary’s order declaring an “emergency” to stimulate logging on 112.6 million acres of national forest. The order covers nearly 60% of all national forest lands.

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The Chairman of the US Military Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, has visited the US Southern Border to see the progress being made to secure that area, as illegal crossings continue to plunge there.