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A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order calling for the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks to not display elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” The preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Massachusetts also orders a pause on any additional changes, writing that the plaintiffs have shown that these efforts are meant “to rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen.” “History cannot be faithfully told while excluding the experiences of communities whose contributions, struggles, and achievements form an important part of our Nation’s story,”…

NEW YORK — The Manhattan architect who lived a secret life as the Gilgo Beach serial killer has spent the past three years alone in a segregated cell, reading crime novels and occasionally being visited by his lawyers or family, according to the sheriff who oversees the jail. Rex Heuermann also struck up a brief correspondence with Keith Hunter Jesperson, the infamous “Happy Face Killer ” who confessed to killing eight women across the country in the 1990s, said Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon. The sheriff said it was Jesperson, who is serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of…

The Trump administration has barred Los Angeles County’s main homelessness agency from accessing federal funds while it investigates the agency’s alleged “wanton mismanagement of public funds.” The move puts at risk almost $200 million that LA area service providers count on to help California’s largest homeless population. In a letter Thursday to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development accused the LA agency of fraud, while also blaming it for failing to decrease homelessness. The agency failed to record when people left their motel housing, misused government money by using it to pay…

A judge on Friday denied a request from the Kennedy Center to pause a ruling ordering President Trump’s name removed from the building. Unless the Kennedy Center decides to appeal the decision from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, the decision raises the prospect that Trump’s name will be removed from the building. In his ruling last month, Cooper said only Congress could institute a change to the Kennedy Center’s name and ordered that references to Trump be removed by Friday. A Kennedy Center spokesperson didn’t immediately comment on the ruling. Workers were seen building scaffolding around a section of the…

Residents in tornado-ravaged areas in Illinois and Indiana were grappling with the damage to their homes and neighborhoods on Friday, after the strong line of storms barreled through communities south of Chicago and left trails of destruction. Cleanup efforts were underway, and utility companies said power restoration efforts could extend into next week. Thursday’s storms ripped roofs off of buildings, flattened homes, brought down scores of trees and power lines and caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and major air traffic disruptions. Officials said there were no reports of deaths or life-threatening injuries, though there were several people treated…

A San Diego man is recovering from multiple surgeries and mounting medical bills after a grizzly bear attacked him on one of Glacier National Park’s most popular trails last month, dragging him across a snow-covered mountainside before fellow hikers and an airlifted rescue team got him to a hospital. Daniel Crago, 32, was wrapping up a weeklong trip to the park on May 28 when the attack occurred on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, a roughly 10-mile out-and-back route in the Many Glacier area on the park’s east side. Mr. Crago and a friend had hiked about 3.5 miles when the…

Federal authorities are investigating after photographs revealed the anti-Trump message “8647” marked on the grass of the National Mall. A photo taken by Reuters showed the markings near the World War II Memorial, with the “8” clearly visible and the other three numbers showing more faintly. A spokesperson for the U.S. Park Police told CNN that the cause of the grass discoloration is still being investigated. The “47” refers to President Trump, who is both the 45th and 47th U.S. president, while “86” is slang for get rid of or remove. An Interior Department spokesperson told Reuters that the incident…

San Diego school police are offering $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who glued more than 200 doors shut at a local high school. The person went around to doors across Patrick Henry High School in the early morning hours of May 26 and applied a sticky substance, causing $70,000 worth of damage, the San Diego Unified School District Police Department said, according to KNSD-TV. Student Christopher Guzman told KABC-TV that as he arrived at school later that morning, he “looked around. There’s all these teachers on the floor. They had these little — I don’t…

The Boston Police Department is looking for two boys accused of robbing a children’s lemonade stand at gunpoint. The suspects on Wednesday afternoon made multiple passes by the lemonade stand run by two siblings before asking the kids if they took Apple Pay. After that, they nabbed a box full of cash, with one displaying a gun in his waistband as they fled, Boston police said. The mother of the two children, Jennifer Byrne, told WBTS-TV “my daughter called me, I’m at work. She was in hysterics, crying, saying, ’Somebody put a gun to us and took all of our…

Spencer Pratt conceded the Los Angeles mayoral race Friday in a fiery social media video, vowing to continue targeting the city’s political establishment and claiming to possess a recording of one of the two remaining candidates that he says would force her to resign. Mr. Pratt, a Republican and former star of “The Hills,” finished third in the June 2 primary behind incumbent Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and city Councilwoman Nithya Raman, who will face each other in the November general election. His strong election-night showing — which initially suggested he would advance to the runoff — was reversed over…