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On July 5, 2018, Detective Daniel Hayes of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office, north of Atlanta, responded to a most unusual call.Peter Van Sant: A human body in a burn pile. Had you ever received a call like that in your career?Det. Daniel Hayes: I had never personally responded to a call that — like that. No. Gary Farris, 58, a married father of four, was a successful commercial real estate attorney Sherry Farris The body was later identified as 58-year-old Gary Farris, the larger-than-life, 300-pound patriarch of the Farris estate, now reduced to skeletal remains. Hayes learned Gary Farris…

Demonstrators gather to protest on Thursday against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A Trump-nominated federal judge in Louisiana said that a 2-year-old American citizen appears to have been deported “with no meaningful process.” This comes as the Trump administration has faced growing criticisms for its hurried proceedings to remove as many noncitizens from the country as quickly as possible. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty wrote that the toddler, identified as VML,…

When Karl Molden, a sophomore at Harvard University from Vienna, learned that the Trump administration had abruptly restored thousands of international students’ ability to legally study in the United States, he said he did not feel reassured.After all, immigration officials have insisted that they could still terminate students’ legal status, even in the face of legal challenges, and the administration has characterized the matter as only a temporary reprieve.“They shouldn’t tempt us into thinking that the administration will stop harassing us,” Mr. Molden said. “They will try to find other ways.”Mr. Molden is not alone in his worry.The dramatic shift…

The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday.”The spouse is not a member of the Coast Guard and was detained by Homeland Security Investigations pursuant to a lawful removal order,” said Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Steve Roth in a statement confirming Thursday’s on-base arrest. “The Coast Guard works closely with HSI and others to enforce federal laws, including on immigration.”The arrest happened on move-in…

Very real pain is about to be inflicted on students, staff, researchers, and faculty. At least for now, most of the people here are willing to bear that price. Ad Policy Demonstrators with signs stand around the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard after a rally was held against President Donald Trump’s attacks on Harvard University at Harvard University.( Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images) Cambridge, Massachusetts—The Harvard Crimson’s “most-read” story this past Tuesday carried a simple headline: “Harvard Will Fight Trump’s Demands.” After months of equivocation as the White House pressed down on higher education, America’s oldest and…

A former employee of Walt Disney World who hacked into menus used by its restaurants and edited them — changing prices, adding profanity and altering listed allergens — was sentenced to three years in prison by a federal judge in Florida this week.None of the changes, including falsified information about food allergens that could have been harmful to visitors, ever appeared before the public, according to court records. The menu alterations were caught and court records show that none of the changes ever reached the printing stage.The former employee, Michael Scheuer of Winter Garden, Fla., was sentenced on Wednesday in…

This story originally aired on May 4, 2024.It was 1 p.m. on May 8, 2018, when Massachusetts State Police detectives arrived at a farmhouse in Westfield. 51-year-old Amy Fanion lay dead in the dining room from a single gunshot wound to the head. Amy Fanion’s husband, Brian Fanion, a detective in the Westfield Police Department, had called 911 minutes earlier, reporting that his wife had shot herself. Det. Mike McNally: Amy was essentially … in a pile of blood that was beginning to congeal under her left side.  The dining room, rearranged to accommodate medical personnel, was in disarray as detectives…

The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington had fewer big-name celebrity guests than it did during the Biden presidency, when Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm and Sean Penn mixed with journalists and politicians. But on Saturday a red carpet was rolled out nonetheless.President Trump, who skipped the annual black tie dinner during his first term, made no plan to attend the gathering before leaving Washington to attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome.An appearance by the comedian Amber Ruffin, who had been booked as the host, was scrapped last month “to ensure the focus is not on the politics…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, along with state law enforcement officials, arrested about 780 immigrants in Florida in an operation this week, according to ICE data obtained by The New York Times.The operation began on Monday and targeted undocumented immigrants with final deportation orders, according to an ICE official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. The officers picked up more than 275 migrants with final removal orders, the data showed.ABC News and Fox News earlier reported news of the arrests, which took place over four days.It was the latest move by the Trump administration…

Washington — Inside the kitchen at the Washington Hilton ahead of Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner are frenetic dinner preparations for about 2,600 people.  “So, if it’s a three-course, you multiply that by three, we could walk away doing almost 10,000 plates in the kitchen as a whole,” Daniel Bennett, the hotel’s executive chef, tells CBS News. The correspondents’ dinner has been an annual tradition since 1921, bringing together presidential comedy and the press corps, and the Hilton has been its home for 57 years. The Washington Hilton is also known for one of the darkest moments in presidential…