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USC Valedictorian Asna Tabassum. Via ABC News (NEW YORK) — The University of Southern California’s campus has been in the spotlight after school administrators canceled a student valedictorian’s commencement speech due to safety concerns over her pro-Palestinian views. Asna Tabassum, a first-generation South Asian-American Muslim, was scheduled to give a speech on May 10. School administrators, however, decided to cancel …

Via U.S. Department of Justice (NEW YORK) — An Oklahoma man has been arrested on charges of allegedly throwing a pipe bomb at The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts, according to federal prosecutors. The suspect, 49-year-old Sean Patrick Palmer of Perkins, Oklahoma, was arrested Wednesday morning in Oklahoma, authorities said. The attack, captured on a security surveillance camera outside of …

(NEW YORK) — Millions are bracing for a new round of storms after at least 27 tornadoes were reported across seven states from Kansas to Ohio this week. On Thursday, the new storm system will move into the Midwest and parts of the South, bringing a threat of tornadoes, damaging winds and large hail. The severe weather will stretch from …

Courtesy of the Cobb Family (NEW YORK) — The family of Ricky Cobb II, a Minnesota man who was shot and killed during a traffic stop on July 31, 2023, is taking legal action against Minnesota State Patrol Trooper Ryan Londregan, who was charged with second-degree unintentional murder, in a case that sparked political controversy in the state. The federal …

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (NEW YORK) — Almost 50 pounds of methamphetamine found in an ice chest full of fish has been discovered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers during a routine screening of a vehicle trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The discovery took place on Sunday evening at approximately 8:39 p.m. when U.S. Customs and Border …

ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — “Everywhere I look, everything that I see, I just see his face,” said Reanell Hartley, looking through the barbed wire fencing of Camp Scott for the first time in more than two decades. As a teenager in the early 2000s, she was locked up inside the fences of Camp Scott, a juvenile facility run by …

In this Sept. 13, 2023, file photo, Bryan Kohberger, accused of murder, arrives for a hearing in the courtroom in Latah County District Court, in Moscow, Idaho. (Ted S. Warren/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger — the man accused of stabbing to death four Idaho college students in November 2022 — plan to use analysis of cellphone …

Piccell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Emergency 911 phone service has been restored in most of the areas hit by outages on Wednesday night. At least six cities in four different states across the United States reported experiencing 911 call outages earlier in the evening, according to officials. Many of those outages had been restored by Thursday morning, authorities said, although …

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Boeing’s safety culture came under scrutiny during a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, where a Boeing whistleblower was among those who testified about the company’s production methods in the wake of the Alaska Airlines door plug blowout. Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour, who first spoke out earlier this month on the company’s production of the 787 …

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News has learned the Justice Department and attorneys for 100 victims of Larry Nassar are in the final stages of negotiating a deal that would pay tens of millions of dollars to resolve claims the FBI failed to investigate allegations of abuse by the former women’s U.S. gymnastics team doctor, according to sources …