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Each parent was picked up in the Trump administration’s immigration sweeps around Chicago that later expanded to Charlotte and New Orleans. And with thousands more being detained and targeted for deportation, more cases are expected that could chip away at a key promise of President Donald Trump. She was put into removal proceedings and denied bond by the Detroit Immigration Court. She challenged her detention in federal court and was released by a judge who found her detention unconstitutional. In March 2024, his immigration proceedings began in the Detroit Immigration Court.

Number “6” lifted for New York City’s 2026 New Year’s celebration KABC's Leslie Lopez is at One Times Square as the numeral six is lifted into place for New York City’s 2026 New Year’s celebration.

Biggest travel trends for 2026 and how to save With the new year just days away, Going.com’s Katy Nastro breaks down the biggest travel trends of 2026 and how to save on your next trip.

Gissel Rossi of Los Angeles does last-minute shopping at the Citadel Outlets in City of Commerce on Dec. 24, 2025. The National Weather Service predicts 1 inch to 1½ inches of rain will fall on Los Angeles County’s coasts and valleys between midnight and noon on Friday, with 1½ inches to 4 inches in the mountains. “For downtown Los Angeles, the total rainfall of 2.59 inches of rain through noon today has made the Christmas Eve-Christmas Day holiday period the wettest since 3.24 inches fell in 1971,” the service said in another post. As of early Thursday afternoon, this year had already brought the fourth-wettest Christmas Eve and Christmas Day to the region since record-keeping began in 1877, according to another National Weather Service update . Additional rain through midnight could potentially see this year move higher up the rankings.

Best ways to tackle holiday gift returns ABC News' Becky Worley shares what you need to know before heading to the store or logging on to return holiday gifts.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGJERUSALEM, Dec 26 (Reuters) - An Israeli reservist soldier rammed his vehicle into a Palestinian man as he prayed on a roadside in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, after earlier firing shots in the area, the Israeli military said. This picture shows damaged homes in the Nur Shams camp for Palestinian refugees east of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank on Dec. 18, 2025. Early this year, the military launched an ongoing operation it said was aimed at rooting out Palestinian armed groups from camps in the northern occupied West Bank. Zain Jaafar/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Palestinian man went to hospital for checks after the attack, but was unhurt and is now at home. AdvertisementThis year was one of the most violent on record for Israeli civilian attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank, according to United Nations data that shows more than 750 injuries.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s mayor-elect, has talked a lot about food during his campaign. I spent this past week eating at all of his favorite restaurants. Afterwards, I walked across the street from some paan, which is what Mamdani had suggested in one of his interviews. The breakfast burrito is really, really great too. Last, I went to Pye Boat Noodle, a Thai restaurant in Astoria where Mamdani occasionally orders takeout.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGSAO PAULO, Dec 25 (Reuters) - Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son Flavio’s 2026 presidential bid on Thursday in a statement from a hospital where he underwent a scheduled hernia operation that doctors said went smoothly. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized Bolsonaro to leave prison, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup, for the surgery. Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, speaks with journalists after leaving the Federal Police headquarters where his father is being held, in Brasilia, on Dec. 9, 2025. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves DF Star Hospital after undergoing a medical procedure on Sept. 14, 2025, in Brasília, Brazil. AdvertisementThe cancellation of a planned interview on Tuesday, where Jair Bolsonaro was expected to formalize the endorsement, helped the real strengthen nearly 1% against the dollar.

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U.S. stocks held close to all-time highs on Friday, while the run-up in precious metals broke new ground. Most-active silver futures surged 6.7% to around $76.50 a troy ounce, extending a record run that has more than doubled prices this year while sweeping up Wall Street pros and amateur investors alike. Gold futures also hit records, rising around 1.6% to $4,573 a troy ounce. Most Read from The Wall Street JournalOne factor boosting precious metals, which are often viewed as a haven for nervous investors: escalating geopolitical tensions. The major gauges rose for a fifth straight session on Christmas Eve, with both the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials closing at records.

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS via Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day” tariffs have worked — if liberating Americans from their jobs was the actual goal. In all, there are now 67,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when he imposed tariffs on most imports. Over four years, Biden’s economy added more than 4 million jobs per year, or 336,225 per month. In contrast, the economy has added only 499,000 total jobs since Trump returned to office, or 49,900 per month. “The Trump tariffs that Joe Biden and Democrats warned against are an historic sales tax hike on working people that’s raising costs and scrambling supply chains,” Bates said.