WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center was reopened on Tuesday after no fire was discovered following the sounding of a fire alarm, U.S. Capitol Police said.
The center had been evacuated earlier Tuesday as police and the local fire department investigated the source of the fire alarm. Neither smoke nor fire was found, a Capitol Police spokeswoman said. She did not know why the fire alarm had sounded.
A towering wall of dust rolled through metro Phoenix with storms that left thousands of people without power and temporarily grounded flights at the city airport.
The exemption, known as the “de minimis” exemption, allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty free. A total of 1.36 billion packages were sent in 2024 under this exemption.
Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, his defense attorneys told a court Saturday.
Lyle Menendez was denied parole, a day after his younger brother Erik received the same recommendation by a California state board.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from jail in Tennessee on Friday so he can rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges.
The parents of a missing Southern California baby were arrested Friday on suspicion of murder more than a week after his mother claimed the 7-month old boy was abducted.
Ghislaine Maxwell repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump, according to records released Friday meant to distance the president from disgraced financer Jeffrey Epstein.
A group of rabbits in Colorado with grotesque, hornlike growths may seem straight out of a low-budget horror film, but scientists say there’s no reason to be spooked — the furry creatures merely have a relatively common virus.
Cracker Barrel is marching forward with an ongoing makeover. And to the dismay of some fans, the chain’s new logo now ditches the barrel itself.
A federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction halting further expansion of an immigration detention dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” that advocates said violated environmental laws.
