Trump administration orders ICE to suspend most vehicle stops after 2 deadly shootings<\/p>\n
BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) \u2014 Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the agency\u2019s enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.<\/p>\n
In Florida on Tuesday, a third man in roughly a week died during an encounter with immigration officers. This time, a 28-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a tractor trailer while running from immigration and other federal officers, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The suspension of vehicle stops allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, according to a person who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations. Matthew Felling, a spokesperson for Maine Sen. Angus King, said the senator\u2019s office was also told by the Department of Homeland Security that ICE was suspending stops.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people in Maine protested Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Dur\u00e1n Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian national.<\/p>\n
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Man fleeing immigration officers in Florida is struck and killed by tractor trailer, police say<\/p>\n
A man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n
It was the third death in a week involving encounters with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, following shootings in Texas and Maine.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old was among four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store in the St. Augustine area before 7 a.m. During an encounter with agents from ICE and Homeland Security Investigations, the four fled on foot, with one darting across a busy road into the path of the semi, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan said in an emailed statement. <\/p>\n
The driver of the semi stopped and tried to help the man, Bryan said.<\/p>\n
It was at least the 10th death involving encounters with immigration agents since President Donald Trump launched his mass deportation campaign last year.<\/p>\n
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US reimposes its blockade on Iran after Tehran’s attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 The U.S. military early Wednesday reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports over Tehran\u2019s attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, sparking new strikes on nations hosting American forces as an interim deal to end the war further unraveled. <\/p>\n
Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran \u2014 and both nations’ attempts to vie for control of the waterway through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas passes during peacetime \u2014 threaten to push the region back to all-out war. <\/p>\n
The U.S. first imposed the blockade in mid-April and then lifted it in mid-June, a day after signing the interim deal that set a 60-day period for negotiations over issues like Iran\u2019s nuclear program, but talks have stalled as fighting over the strait has intensified.<\/p>\n
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced the return of the blockade Monday, he also said he would impose a 20% fee on ships passing through the strait. But he dropped the plan to collect fees hours before resuming the blockade, citing requests from allies in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n
The U.S. carried out another wave of strikes ahead of reimposing the blockade, the U.S. military’s Central Command said. Missile alert warnings went out in Bahrain and Kuwait early Wednesday morning as they faced incoming Iranian fire, something that’s been a daily occurrence, further straining a ceasefire in the war. <\/p>\n
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Trump will speak on elections in primetime address after pushing debunked conspiracies<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules for November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n
The Republican president has been guarded about what he plans to say in the 9 p.m. Thursday speech, scheduled as he confronts a collapsing deal to end the war with Iran. He also faces numerous domestic issues, including recent deadly shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Asked for a preview of the speech on Tuesday, Trump offered scant detail but said he has \u201creally big news.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get bigger, because without free and fair elections, you don\u2019t have a country,\u201d Trump said in the Oval Office. He refused to go further, saying he wanted to \u201csave it\u201d for the moment, though he also hinted he would be talking about a hodgepodge of issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll be discussing other things, too,\u201d Trump said, without elaborating. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very big announcement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has used the power of the primetime presidential address \u2014 typically reserved for milestones \u2014 to deliver politically charged speeches before, including one in December when he sought to blame the challenging economic climate on Democrats. But Thursday’s address seems poised to go even further, using the moment to amplify election lies before an audience of millions in an effort to boost Republican prospects before midterms that threaten to hobble Trump for the remainder of his term.<\/p>\n
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Darline Graham, sister of late Sen. Lindsey Graham, has been sworn in to finish his term<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Darline Graham, the sister of the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, was sworn in to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon \u2014 filling the seat just three days after her brother\u2019s death. <\/p>\n
Graham was appointed by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday to fill the remaining months of her brother\u2019s current term and arrived in Washington just a day later to take the oath of office. Senators, staff and family members looked on in the packed chamber, many of them visibly emotional, as Graham was sworn in by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the most senior Republican senator. <\/p>\n
A separate special election will be held next month to pick a new Republican nominee in the general election for Lindsey Graham\u2019s seat, as he had been seeking a fifth term this year.<\/p>\n
Darline Graham, who will be the state\u2019s first female senator, has not previously held public office. She has worked as an optician and at various state agencies, including the South Carolina Commission for the Blind and the Department of Employment and Workforce. She is married to Larry Nordone but will be known in the Senate as Darline Graham, her legal name. <\/p>\n
She said on Monday that her older brother, who raised her after their parents died, had always been there for her. \u201cAnd now, I will be there for him,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
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Supreme Court justices detail security risks and weigh in on ethics in rare congressional testimony<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 In rare congressional testimony, Supreme Court justices shared chilling stories Tuesday about the threats they increasingly face in public life and fielded questions about ethics and emergency appeals. <\/p>\n
The appearances from Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan were the first of their kind since 2019. Their testimony came weeks after the conservative-majority court handed down a series of major opinions, including one that increased President Donald Trump\u2019s power over federal regulatory agencies and one that rejected his wide-ranging tariffs. Those rulings and more sparked harsh personal criticism of the justices.<\/p>\n
The main focus of the hearings in the House and Senate was a request for increased security funding for the justices. Like judges around the country, they\u2019ve faced a surge in threats of violence and intimidation.<\/p>\n
Barrett said she had to take a bulletproof vest home a few years ago, something she struggled to explain to her 12-year-old son. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect that performing this service would put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was, why I had to wear one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
While security was the major theme of the justices\u2019 testimony, ethics and the shadow docket also emerged as lines of questioning for members of Congress in packed hearing rooms with lines out the door. <\/p>\n
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Gibraltar ushers in a new era as British territory’s border fence with Spain is removed<\/p>\n
MADRID (AP) \u2014 Thousands of people who travel every day between the southern tip of Spain and the British territory of Gibraltar will no longer have to cross a physical border, beginning on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The official opening at midnight on Tuesday \u2014 after a border fence was fully removed \u2014 allows a new freedom of movement under a historic treaty between the European Union and the United Kingdom. It came after years of post-Brexit wrangling. <\/p>\n
The contested British Overseas Territory of 38,000 people is perched at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula, in a strategic location mere miles from Morocco where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n
Soon after midnight, crowds crossed freely between Spain\u2019s La L\u00ednea de Concepci\u00f3n and Gibraltar in both directions. Many wore Spanish soccer jerseys after Spain\u2019s victory against France in the World Cup semifinal on Tuesday, adding to the celebratory mood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat you feel here is the brotherhood between the two people,\u201d Gibraltar’s Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told Spanish broadcaster RTVE.<\/p>\n
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Writers Guild of America seeks to block Paramount’s buyout of Warner in latest merger challenge<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Writers Guild of America became the latest group to challenge Paramount’s $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, filing a lawsuit that seeks to block the merger on the grounds it would cause \u201cspecific harm\u201d to movie and TV writers working across the U.S.<\/p>\n
A Paramount-Warner merger \u201cthreatens the economic and creative health of the American entertainment industry,\u201d reads Tuesday’s federal complaint, which was filed by both the Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East (jointly the WGA). <\/p>\n
The union argued that the merger would create less competitors and give the larger company \u201cboth the incentive and the ability\u201d to lower wages and the number of projects that offer workers employment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis proposed combined entity would be the largest employer of writers, with tremendous power to suppress our wages, eliminate opportunities for emerging writers, cut jobs across the industry, and produce less programming,” WGAE President Tom Fontana said in a statement.<\/p>\n
A Warner-Paramount tie-up would bring together two of the five last legacy studios in Hollywood. It would also mean putting Warner\u2019s HBO Max, its libraries filled with popular titles like \u201cHarry Potter\u201d and even CNN under the same roof of Paramount-owned CBS, movies like \u201cTop Gun\u201d and the Paramount+ streaming service.<\/p>\n
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As cyclospora illnesses surge to a record, Michigan officials eye lettuce as a possible cause<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, with state-level data suggesting that 2026 is already the nation’s worst year for reported cases.<\/p>\n
More than 30 states have reported infections this year, and current data from them shows the number of infections surpassing the record U.S. mark of about 4,700 set in 2019. The illness is not usually life threatening and is typically treated with antibiotics. <\/p>\n
Health officials have not yet definitively identified what is causing the infections. On Tuesday, federal health officials said there may be different infection patterns in different places, although they believe cases in at least four states \u2014 Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia \u2014 are linked.<\/p>\n
In Michigan \u2014 where more than 3,300 cases have been reported \u2014 officials say early information points to lettuce or salad greens as a possible culprit.<\/p>\n
After conducting more than 1,000 interviews with patients, \u201cearly information has shown lettuce as a common product that regularly comes up during the investigation,\u201d said Natasha Bagdasarian, the Michigan health department’s chief medical executive.<\/p>\n
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Spain shuts down France and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, advances to the World Cup final with a 2-0 victory<\/p>\n
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Spain\u2019s defensive prowess and swagger were just too much for an attacking trio led by France great Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, and just enough to get the 2010 champions into another World Cup final.<\/p>\n
The Spanish team managed a record sixth shutout in seven games so far, winning 2-0 in the semifinals Tuesday against one of the most prolific scorers in World Cup history.<\/p>\n
Teenager Lamine Yamal certainly was correct when he said France should fear Spain. That despite FIFA’s top-ranked team being led by Mbapp\u00e9 \u2014 their captain with 20 goals in his 20 World Cup games before the semifinals \u2014 Ballon d\u2019Or winner Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 and Michael Olise, who has a tournament-high five assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were up against one of the best national teams in the world, but today, they were facing the best team in the world,\u201d Spain coach Luis de la Fuente said.<\/p>\n
Mikel Oyarzabal scored from the penalty spot after a heady play by Yamal drew a foul, and Pedro Porro added another goal to put Spain in its second World Cup final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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