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Starting in April, immigration authorities will start taking cheek swabs to collect DNA from hundreds of thousands of immigration detainees in federal custody each year. The Trump Administration says the policy change will help law enforcement apprehend criminal suspects. The data collected will be transferred to an FBI database, so that […]

The Republican National Committee shelled out nearly $95,000 for copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s new book, which helped land it atop the New York Times’ bestseller list. Records filed with the Federal Election Commission show the party spent $94,800 on “donor mementos” from Books-A-Million on October 29, days before Trump’s book “Triggered: […]

Two Air Force pilots were killed Thursday morning during an “aircraft mishap” at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma, officials said. The Air Force said the “mishap” occurred around 9:10 a.m. while the aircraft was performing a training mission. Vance emergency response personnel were at the scene treating casualties and assisting in recovery efforts. Col. Corey […]

Muncie, Ind. — Mayor Dennis Tyler, a Democrat nearing the end of his second term in office — was arrested Monday by the FBI as part of a sprawling public corruption probe that has snared several officials in his administration. The indictment charges Tyler, 76, with one count of theft of government […]

Students at an Arkansas college suspect a campus chemistry lab was turned into a meth lab after the arrest of two professors, according to a report. Henderson State University chemistry professors Terry Bateman, 45, and Bradley Rowland, 40, were charged Friday with the manufacture of methamphetamine and the use of drug paraphernalia, Fox […]

A man convicted of fatally shooting a convenience store clerk 25 years ago as part of his plot to steal beer was put to death in Georgia Wednesday night despite last-minute pleas from his attorneys to carry out DNA testing they claim would exonerate the death row inmate. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, who insisted that […]

An arctic blast that is expected to bring snow, ice and bone-chilling temperatures to tens of millions of people across the United States this week has already proven fatal. The weather was blamed in at least four deaths Monday in the Midwest. The deaths, which authorities in Michigan and Kansas […]

A Pennsylvania hospital said Friday it has discovered the source of a waterborne germ that sickened at least eight premature infants, killing three. Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania said the process it was using to prepare donor breast milk led to the deadly outbreak in the hospital’s neonatal intensive […]

Washington — Michael Bloomberg is taking steps to enter the 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, a person familiar with his plans tells Pioneer Daily. Bloomberg, 77, has dispatched aides to Alabama to file paperwork in the state to run as a Democrat. The Cotton State doesn’t hold an early Democratic presidential […]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Authorities say police in Mexico have arrested a man suspected of stealing a car that belonged to a New Hampshire couple found buried at a South Texas beach. Kleberg County Sheriff Richard Kirkpatrick confirmed on Wednesday that Adam Curtis Williams had been arrested by authorities in the […]