https://sevenlights.org/categories/us/ Recent content in US News on Seven Lights Hugo en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/07/houston-whitmire-ice-cooperation/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/07/houston-whitmire-ice-cooperation/ Houston Mayor John Whitmire signed an executive order Friday directing police to notify federal immigration authorities only in arrests for jailable offenses with an active ICE warrant, breaking with state policy after Democrats’ midterm wins in Texas. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/07/thomas-markle-charged-child-abuse-material/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/07/thomas-markle-charged-child-abuse-material/ Federal agents arrested Thomas Markle, father of the Duchess of Sussex, at a Florida senior care facility and charged him with keeping child sexual abuse material in California storage units, authorities said. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/07/wisconsin-measles-infant-death/ Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/07/wisconsin-measles-infant-death/ Health officials confirmed the death of an unvaccinated infant in southwestern Wisconsin, the state’s first measles fatality since 1990 and the third US measles-associated death this week, bringing this year’s toll to at least eight. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/06/trump-arch-construction-temporarily-blocked/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:00:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/06/trump-arch-construction-temporarily-blocked/ A federal judge in Washington issued a 14-day restraining order early Friday halting construction of President Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch, hours after the final planning commission approved it. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/06/newsom-commutes-california-death-row/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:00:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/06/newsom-commutes-california-death-row/ California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he will commute all 548 death sentences in the state to life without parole, the largest mass clemency in United States history. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/06/trump-declares-oval-office-national-monument/ Fri, 06 Nov 2026 03:00:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/06/trump-declares-oval-office-national-monument/ President Trump signed a proclamation Thursday designating the Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national monuments, a move he says will prevent future administrations from undoing his renovations. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/03/new-york-measles-death-lewis-county/ Tue, 03 Nov 2026 03:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/03/new-york-measles-death-lewis-county/ New York health officials reported the state’s first measles-associated death in more than 30 years, a child in rural Lewis County, as the statewide outbreak reached 178 cases this year. https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/01/dallas-halloween-shootings-deep-ellum/ Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:30:00 -0500 https://sevenlights.org/2026/11/01/dallas-halloween-shootings-deep-ellum/ Three separate shootings in Dallas’s Deep Ellum district killed four people and injured 15 in little over an hour, as mass shootings near college events left dead and wounded in Alabama, Delaware and other states. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/31/us-approves-patriot-missile-sale-ukraine/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 03:37:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/31/us-approves-patriot-missile-sale-ukraine/ The State Department approved a possible $2.1 billion sale of 500 PAC-3 interceptor missiles to Ukraine, to be paid for by European and Canadian partners. President Zelensky warned deliveries could take years. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/29/fed-holds-rates-decision/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 03:42:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/29/fed-holds-rates-decision/ The Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.75 to 4 percent, a week before the midterm elections and a month after the first increase in three years. Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack voted for another rise. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/28/fbi-searches-swalwell-beverly-hills-mansion/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:45:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/28/fbi-searches-swalwell-beverly-hills-mansion/ The FBI searched the Beverly Hills mansion of developer Stephen Cloobeck on Tuesday as part of the criminal investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, who resigned his seat in April amid sexual misconduct allegations. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/27/maurene-comey-firing-ruled-illegal/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:36:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/27/maurene-comey-firing-ruled-illegal/ A federal judge ruled Monday that Maurene Comey, a decade-long assistant US attorney in Manhattan and daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawfully fired in July 2025, ordering retroactive reinstatement and back pay. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/25/florida-am-university-shooting-tallahassee/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:30:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/25/florida-am-university-shooting-tallahassee/ Twelve people, six of them minors, were injured, eleven by gunfire, near Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium on Saturday night after an altercation at a homecoming party, Tallahassee police said. No arrests had been made. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/23/nyc-horse-carriage-ban-2028/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:50:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/23/nyc-horse-carriage-ban-2028/ The New York City Council passed Romanch’s Law, banning horse-drawn carriages from June 2028 after the fatal accident that killed 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan in Central Park. Mayor Mamdani’s office says he will sign it; owners and the TWU threaten a federal lawsuit. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/23/trump-bbc-deposition-dec-11/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:46:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/23/trump-bbc-deposition-dec-11/ A federal magistrate judge in Florida ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC by Dec. 11 or face penalties including dismissal, after the BBC said his Oct. 16 no-show was for a rally and a fundraiser. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/musk-spacex-tesla-merger-good-idea/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:19:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/musk-spacex-tesla-merger-good-idea/ Elon Musk said a merger of Tesla and SpaceX would be a good idea and disclosed that special committees have been formed to assess a potential deal that would combine the two largest private and public companies he controls. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/brad-lander-released-israeli-detention-west-bank/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:19:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/brad-lander-released-israeli-detention-west-bank/ Brad Lander, a Democratic candidate for Congress in New York, said Israeli forces detained him while he helped Palestinian farmers harvest olives, in what two Israeli lawyers told NPR was the largest mass detention of activists in the West Bank in at least a decade. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/russia-frees-american-stephen-hubbard/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:19:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/russia-frees-american-stephen-hubbard/ Russia released Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired American teacher jailed on mercenary charges, as President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff opened talks with Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg. https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/supreme-court-transgender-inmate-policy-injunction/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:19:00 -0400 https://sevenlights.org/2026/10/21/supreme-court-transgender-inmate-policy-injunction/ The justices denied an emergency request from the Trump administration, keeping in place a lower court order that requires federal prisons to continue gender-affirming care for transgender inmates while litigation continues.