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Police: Cult member killed parents

A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday she wasn’t acting alone. Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said evidence from a neighbor’s doorbell camera, ballistics and analysis of cellphone records have left investigators certain Michelle Zajko is at least partly responsible for the deaths of her parents, Rita and Richard. They were shot in her childhood playroom on New Year’s Eve 2022, surrounded by her old dolls and ...

Late US match

At press time: The United States and Turkey were tied at 2-2 in the 82nd minute. The U.S. got a goal from Auston Trusty in the 3rd minute to open the scoring before Turkey took a 2-1 lead heading to half. Sebastian Berhalter knotted the match in the 49th minute.

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Nation Judge bars arrests at immigration courts A judge has barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year. Tuesday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Casey Pitts of San Francisco says the government failed to justify its actions as required by law. New York Ex-chief of staff to former mayor arrested NEW YORK — A former chief of staff to New York ex-Mayor Eric Adams has been arrested in a bribery case. It’s the latest sign that federal prosecutors continue to ...

Judge bars proof of citizenship requirement to vote

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago, in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban. Casper rejected the Republican administration’s argument that the lawsuit to block the ...

Trump meets with Senate Republicans

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face on Wednesday for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt. Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol, Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship voting bill. But the conversation was more focused on Tuesday’s vote to approve the war ...

Celebrating America

People arrive to hear President Donald Trump speak at the opening of the Great American State Fair, formally kicking off celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary, on the National Mall on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The Associated Press