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New FBI Director Kash Patel will also be named acting head of the ATF, official says
Feb 22, 2025 9:22 pm - WASHINGTON — New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official...
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Border Patrol agent whose death is tied to cultlike Zizians is buried with military honors
Feb 22, 2025 8:00 pm - MINNEAPOLIS — A U.S. Border Patrol agent whose killing in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border has been tied to a cultlike group was buried with full mi...
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Officer killed after a gunman took hostages at a Pennsylvania hospital
Feb 22, 2025 7:52 pm - YORK, Pa. — A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital's intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was ki...
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Shooting after pursuit at Air Force Base in New Mexico kills an airman and wounds another
Feb 22, 2025 7:50 pm - ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A shooting at a U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico early Saturday left one airman dead and another wounded, military officials said, adding that it was...
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Fifteen area high schools gather for Robot Rumble competition in Rolling MeadowsFeb 22, 2025 6:06 pm - Using mechanical proxies, 15 high schools from across the region gathered in Rolling Meadows Saturday for a fierce competition in which violence and destruction were encouraged and rewarded.
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Musk says on X that feds must explain what they did last week — or resign
Feb 22, 2025 5:39 pm - All federal workers will shortly receive an email asking what they did last week — and that if employees fail to respond, it will be taken as a resignation, Elon Musk wro...
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Trump revels in mass federal firings and jeers at Biden before adoring conservative crowd
Feb 22, 2025 5:37 pm - OXON HILL, Md. — President Donald Trump said Saturday that “nobody's ever seen anything” like his administration's sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees ...
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Trump’s lawsuit barred by the First Amendment, pollster’s team argues
Feb 22, 2025 5:36 pm - Lawyers for J. Ann Selzer, a veteran Iowa pollster, have issued a scathing response to President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over a poll that showed him trailing Kamala Harris...
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Congress ignores looming shutdown to focus on tax cuts, agency layoffs
Feb 22, 2025 5:35 pm - With President Donald Trump and GOP leaders distracted by other issues, Congress is on the verge of bungling its way into a shutdown of federal agencies in less than thre...
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Three of four accused in theft of high-end SUV, high-speed chase detained in DuPage CountyFeb 22, 2025 5:06 pm - Three of four young persons accused of involvement with the theft of a high-end SUV and leading police on a high-speed chase earlier this month were ordered to be kept detained in DuPage County Saturday as they await trial.