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Two sons of a man shot by immigration officers in Houston this month testified at a congressional hearing Friday, describing the horror and confusion of learning their father had been killed, and demanding a transparent investigation into how he died and why. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed July 7, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers chased his white work van through the streets, then shot him through the window in front of his work crew, including his brother. Salgado Araujo’s sons read from prepared remarks at a Houston hearing with Democratic members of Congress. The sons’ voices often choked with…

Officials at Fort Hood in Texas have shut down a dining facility at the base indefinitely after a video on social media showed a roach problem in its kitchen. The video was posted online by social media pages called “U.S Army W.T.F! Moments” and depicts roaches on the walls and surfaces of a kitchen in the Operation Iraqi Freedom dining facility at Fort Hood. The video was accompanied by anonymous testimony, purportedly from a worker at the dining facility, saying that “we currently have an ongoing roach problem. But the higher ups won’t shut down the building to bomb the…

WASHINGTON — A’Zariah Miles’ dream of attending Howard University was a few weeks from being realized. Then it all came crashing down. Miles, 17, of Knoxville, Tennessee, is one of more than 500 incoming first-year students at Howard who learned this week that they have been unenrolled from the prestigious, historically Black Washington, D.C., university and no longer have spots for the upcoming fall semester that begins Aug. 17. Many have taken to social media – some in tears – to share their stories. Some posts have gone viral. After Miles learned she had been unenrolled, her mother, Kendra Miles,…

A jury convicted a Minnesota woman of disorderly conduct Thursday night over her treatment of a bystander who recorded her hurling a racial slur at an 8-year-old autistic boy last year, while acquitting her of a separate charge tied directly to her conduct toward the child. Shiloh Hendrix, 37, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct after an April 2025 confrontation at Roy Sutherland Playground in Soldier’s Field Park went viral, according to an Olmsted County criminal complaint stating police responded to the park after a man recorded video of Ms. Hendrix engaging in a hostile and racist…

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has come off the sidelines to throw her support behind Rep. Haley Stevens’ bid for the U.S. Senate, giving her a late-innings boost in her hard-fought race against Abdul El-Sayed for the Democratic nomination. “As governor, I’ve had one strategy: get things done, and that strategy informs everything that I do,” Ms. Whitmer, a Democrat, said in a video endorsement posted Friday to Ms. Stevens’ campaign account. “Just like me, Haley will do whatever it takes to get things done for the people of Michigan, and we need her now more than ever.” The endorsement caps…

Eleven people were charged Friday with causing the deaths of seven migrants by trapping them inside a train container in sweltering Texas heat after they were smuggled into the United States. Among the six people found dead inside the shipping container in a rail yard in the Texas border city of Laredo was a 14-year-old boy. Another person had been left for dead near the tracks in San Antonio, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Justin R. Simmons. “In that kind of heat, it’s May in Texas, ultimately it’s very hard to survive in an…

WASHINGTON — Federal health officials on Friday said they have linked cases of a diarrhea-causing parasite tied to shredded lettuce to an additional four states, expanding the scope of the largest U.S. outbreak of cyclospora. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the outbreak first tied to Taco Bell restaurants now includes Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania. Previously the agency’s investigation included five states: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. The CDC, Food and Drug Administration and state health officials have been tracing the supply of the lettuce and interviewing people across the nation about the foods they…

WINDER, Ga. — A teenager has pleaded guilty to all 55 counts in a deadly shooting nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia. Colt Gray, 16, entered the plea Friday without having reached a deal with prosecutors. He had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting that killed two students and two teachers, and left several others wounded, at the high school about 45 miles (73 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta. Before accepting the plea, Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm asked Gray a series of questions meant to ensure that the…

Democrats forced a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year over their list of demands that included narrowing how and when ICE can arrest people, barring officers from wearing masks and imposing a stricter policy for use of force. They didn’t get any concessions then, but if they win control of the House in November’s elections, they said that’s a blueprint for the kind of changes they’ll force on President Trump and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A top goal will be to try to limit the aperture of arrests. “The problem is, they’re going after…

Most states are mistakenly too generous in handing out federally funded food stamps and are now at risk of having to fund the benefits from their own budgets. The Department of Agriculture calculated that 41 states and the District of Columbia had food stamp payment error rates above 6% last year, exceeding the penalty threshold set by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. States with higher error rates will lose federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as early as the end of 2027, leaving them on the hook for funding up to 15% of their food stamps or…