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CHICAGO — The mayors of Chicago, New York City and Denver renewed pleas Wednesday for more federal help and coordination with Texas over the growing number of asylum-seekers arriving in their cities by bus and plane. The mayors’ requests come as U.S. cities have struggled to manage the increasing number of migrants …

WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 rioter who admitted assaulting officers with chemical spray and using a bullhorn to urge the pro-Trump mob to steal law enforcement’s guns received a reduced sentence after “fulsome” cooperation with the government, according to court records unsealed Wednesday. That rioter, Samuel Lazar, has assisted prosecutors …

The migrants spent Christmas night sleeping on scraps of cardboard or plastic, stretched out under awnings, tents or on the bare ground, according to the AP. “I was used to my Christmas dinner with the family, not spending it in the street as we did yesterday,” Eduviges Arias, a migrant …

A man and his father-in-law, who were trying to kill time by scouting fishing holes while their wives were gone, ended up finding a man who had been trapped for days inside a wrecked vehicle, authorities in Indiana said Tuesday. Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre reported finding …

A search in Alaska resumed Tuesday for a woman who went under the ice of the frozen Eagle River while trying to save her beloved dog and has not been seen since, officials said. The Alaska State Troopers identified the woman Tuesday as Amanda Richmond, 45, of the community of …

The South Carolina court clerk who oversaw the trial of convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh and is at the center of a jury tampering claim is being accused of plagiarism by the co-author of her book. Colleton County Court of Clerk Rebecca Hill lifted passages in the beginning of her book, …

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death. The 22-year-old had been hospitalized in Gaza for around a week, after her ankle was partially severed in an Israeli airstrike, when doctors told her she was suffering from blood poisoning. …

It’ll be a white Christmas in parts of the Great Plains, and then some. Blizzard warnings were affecting around 720,000 people from northwestern Kansas and Colorado to most of South Dakota, the National Weather Service said, while ice and sleet were affecting other parts of the region. Nebraska State Patrol …

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said Monday she was the victim of another “swatting” incident at her home in Georgia that was confirmed by local police to NBC News. “I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here,” Greene said in a post …