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Justice Department launches civil rights probe into prosecutor in Virginia

By Juan Benn Jr. and Salvador Rizzo
May 06, 2026 9:04 pm - The Justice Department announced Wednesday it has launched an investigation into the Democratic prosecutor of Virginia’s largest county, following years of complaints from conservatives that his office is too lenient with criminal defendants who are in the country illegally.
Southern Republicans press ahead with election-year redistricting of US House despite protests

By TRAVIS LOLLER, KIM CHANDLER, JEFFREY COLLINS and DAVID A. LIEB
May 06, 2026 8:27 pm - Republicans in several Southern states pressed ahead with an aggressive election-year redistricting effort Wednesday, undeterred by demonstrations and objections to their plans to reshape majority-Black congressional districts that have suddenly become vulnerable because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Judge denies request to return 2020 ballots seized from Fulton County, Georgia

By Jeremy Roebuck
May 06, 2026 8:04 pm - A federal judge on Thursday rejected a request from local officials in Georgia to order the return of key evidence seized as part of the FBI investigation into the state’s counting of votes from the 2020 election.
Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy makes targeting Western Hemisphere cartels the top priority

By AAMER MADHANI
May 06, 2026 7:59 pm - President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy that sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration's highest priority, the White House announced Wednesday.
ICE plans to scrap shortened training program for new immigration officers

By Maria Sacchetti, Sarah Blaskey and David Nakamura
May 06, 2026 4:41 pm - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to return to a longer training program for new deportation officers, two Department of Homeland Security officials said Wednesday, restoring previous standards after dramatically shortening the instruction period for recruits last year.
Lutnick’s testimony about Epstein draws praise from GOP chair and derision from Democrats

By STEPHEN GROVES
May 06, 2026 4:11 pm - Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, trying to explain to lawmakers his contact with the financier after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
Hantavirus is on the rise in Argentina, where a stricken cruise ship began its journey

By ISABEL DEBRE
May 06, 2026 4:00 pm - Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.
Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak heads to Canary Islands after 3 are evacuated

By ANNIE RISEMBERG, MISPER APAWU, ALEKSANDAR FURTULA and ISABEL DEBRE
May 06, 2026 3:55 pm - Two patients with hantavirus and one suspected of infection were evacuated Wednesday from a cruise ship at the center of a deadly outbreak, the U.N. health agency said. The ship then departed Cape Verde with nearly 150 people on board — isolated in their cabins — and headed to Spain’s Canary Islands.
Man charged in DC shooting was walking along the path of Vance's motorcade, agent says

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
May 06, 2026 2:16 pm - A man accused of firing a gun at law enforcement officers near the Washington Monument this week was walking along the path of Vice President JD Vance's motorcade before the shooting and made a vulgar remark about the White House after the confrontation, according to a court filing Wednesday.
Shipping firms are being whipsawed by changing stances and risks as they wait for Hormuz to reopen

By MAE ANDERSON and DAVID MCHUGH
May 06, 2026 2:14 pm - With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war.

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