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Texas sent a plane with more than 120 migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to Chicago in an escalation of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's busing operation that has given more than 80,000 migrants free rides to Democratic-led cities across the country since last year. The first flight, which Abbott's office said left from El Paso and arrived Tuesday, was arranged a week after Chicago's city

Donald Trump’s Republican opponents bashed the Colorado Supreme Court’s bombshell decision to bar the former president from appearing on the state’s primary ballot in March. The court on Tuesday found Trump, 77, ineligible to hold the country’s highest office for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters — citing the rarely used “insurrection clause” of the 14th

A plane landed on Upper Red Lake north of Bemidji Tuesday morning, causing it to break through thin ice before its occupants were helped to shore by anglers. According to the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office, around 9:20 a.m., a Cessna 172 Sky Hawk landed on the lake when it broke through the ice. Only 1–2 inches of ice was reported where the plane went through. All of its occupants were able

A volcano in Iceland erupted Sunday after rumbling for weeks, spewing lava into the air and turning the sky orange as magma ran along the ground. The eruption occurred on the Reykjanes Peninsula at about 10 p.m. local time after an earthquake an hour earlier, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said in a statement. The incident happened near Hagafell, about 2 miles north of a town, Grindavik,