One member of an anti-government group accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan last fall entered a guilty plea on Wednesday in court filings that also revealed new details about plans by the group to storm the Michigan Capitol and commit other violence. Ty G. Garbin, a 25-year-old airplane mechanic, agreed to […]
A driver sparked revulsion after they were spotted behind the wheel of a Hummer with a license plate saying 3Reich. The mystery driver was seen driving the car with the pro-Hitler message in Anchorage, Alaska, last week. Alaska’s Department of Motor Vehicles faced further fury when it emerged they’d previously green-lighted a plate saying ‘Fuhrer’ […]
DETROIT (AP) — One of six men charged in an alleged plot to snatch Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has agreed to plead guilty to a kidnapping conspiracy, according to a court document filed Wednesday. The filing was made by prosecutors ahead of Ty Garbin’s appearance in federal court in Grand Rapids. The plea agreement signed […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday temporarily blocked a move by new U.S. President Joe Biden to halt the deportation of many immigrants for a 100-day period, a swift legal setback for his ambitious immigration agenda. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, an appointee of former President Donald Trump in the Southern […]
[Want to get New York Today by email? Here’s the sign-up.] It’s Wednesday. Weather: Chance of flurries or showers early, and again this evening. Mostly cloudy, with a high around 40. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Feb. 11 (Lunar New Year’s Eve). The Times’s Winnie Hu and Daniel E. Slotnik write: The pandemic set off […]
LOS ANGELES — Maria Elena Hernandez recently retrieved a flowery box tucked in her closet and dusted it off. For more than a decade, she has used it to store tax returns, lease agreements and other documents that she has collected to prove her family’s long years of residence in the United States. “We have […]
Among the dozens of pardons and commutations former President Donald J. Trump issued before leaving office, one name has left some law enforcement officials reeling: Jaime A. Davidson, notorious in upstate New York for planning a 1990 robbery that ended in the murder of a police officer. The commutation bypassed the typical federal process for […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Studies in the United States and abroad found little evidence schools were spreading Covid-19 infections, showing a “path forward” to in-person classes, researchers from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday (Jan 26). The risk of catching Covid-19 in schools and whether to allow in-person learning or […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The Biden administration is expected to announce a temporary suspension of new oil and gas leasing on US federal lands and waters on Wednesday (Jan 27), and to order that nearly a third of federally run acreage is conserved over the next decade, three sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. […]
Donald Trump’s chances of running for re-election in 2024 have been given a huge boost after most of his party sought to throw out his upcoming impeachment trial. A total of 45 Senate Republicans unsuccessfully voted to throw out President Trump’s upcoming trial at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon. The trial will go ahead on […]