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Two more people in Missouri and Washington state have been arrested in connection with what authorities say was a planned attack targeting President Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show at the White House earlier this month. Law enforcement officials disrupted the plan a few days before the June 14 White House event, according to court documents. William Lee Spartacus Falkner of Belfair, Washington, was arrested Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, according to court documents filed Monday in the Western District of Washington. Jordan W. Rincker, 28, was arrested Sunday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the…

NEW YORK — The top U.S. auto regulator opened an investigation Monday after a Tesla using an automated driving feature slammed into a Texas home at high speed and killed a 76-year-old woman standing inside. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it’s opening a special investigation into the Tesla Model 3 crash on Friday near Houston, a significant probe because the car was using technology that Elon Musk considers key to the company’s future. The Tesla CEO is rolling out robotaxis using automated software in several U.S. cities this year and plans to invite Tesla owners to put their…

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used. U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans’ sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls. “All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens…

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, officials said. Emergency officials in Orange County, Texas, shut down roads in the area Sunday morning and warned residents to stay in their homes while crews worked to unload the trailer and salvage as many hives as possible. The county is located east of Houston and borders Louisiana. No bee stings or serious injuries were immediately reported. Officials haven’t identified the owner of the hives. Christie Ray, who owns nearby Queen Bee Supply, said volunteers from three or four other beekeeping businesses…

President Trump has directed William J. Pulte, his temporary choice to replace Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, to significantly downsize the office and eliminate those he sees as political enemies, sparking bipartisan outrage and dredging up criticism that has plagued the position. Security experts and lawmakers argue the office is bureaucratically bloated, ineffective and vulnerable to politicization. Mr. Trump’s political allies have come out in support of his desire to radically reshape the agency. “President Trump is right: the ODNI has grown far beyond its original mandate. I’ve long advocated for downsizing, if not outright eliminating, this bureaucracy,”…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed by The Associated Press. DEA agents repeatedly monitored shipments of fentanyl pills — but did not seize them — as federal prosecutors sought to bring bigger criminal cases against traffickers of a synthetic opioid that the White House last year designated a “ weapon of mass destruction.” Agents and experts, however, said…

Former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100. He died Monday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, said his wife of 29 years, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell. “To me, he was my husband, who shaped my life from our very first date in 1984,” Ms. Mitchell said. “He had ‘irrational exuberance’ for baseball, the Washington Commanders, tennis, golf and music, especially jazz. He will be remembered for his brilliance and his kindness. Being his life partner was the joy of my life.” In his 18½ years at the helm of the Fed, Mr. Greenspan presided…

BOSTON — A Delta Air Lines jet was roughly 300 feet (90 meters) from an American Airlines plane during a close call at Boston’s airport that forced the Delta aircraft to abort a weekend landing attempt, an aviation expert said Sunday. The Federal Aviation Administration said it was investigating the incident between two commercial flights that happened Saturday at Boston Logan International Airport. Todd Curtis, a former safety engineer at Boeing, estimated the distance between the two jetliners using Flightradar24, a website that tracks flights. Curtis now coproduces a podcast about flight safety issues. “This is a significant incident,” Curtis…

WESTERLY, R.I. — When a large tent appeared next door to Taylor Swift’s Watch Hill estate this week, it didn’t take long for speculation about the superstar’s impending nuptials to ripple through the affluent New England seaside village – and the internet. Soon, fans were swapping theories online, photographers were staking out vantage points and residents found themselves fielding questions about a wedding that never was. Or at least, a wedding that seems yet to happen. The rumors, so far, have proved unfounded. But they offered a glimpse into life in Watch Hill, the Rhode Island beach community in the…

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is returning to normal, even as Iran threatened to close the critical waterway again because of Israeli strikes on Lebanon. “I think it’s returning flows back towards normal without any cooperation at all from Iran; that’s the leverage President Trump used to get the Iranians to come to the table and realize their going to lose all the cards in their hand,” Mr. Wright said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Maybe they can make a deal that brings some benefit to Iran. Maybe they can’t.”…