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SAN QUENTIN, Calif. - A refugee who served a 25-year-sentence at San Quentin Prison is now slated to be deported back to Cambodia, despite the pleas of activists who say he has changed his life for the better and doesn't even have memories of the homeland he fled as a child.Phoeun You, 47, could be deported any day. "I have anxiety and fear," You said Wednesday in a phone call from the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in Bakersfield. "I'm waking into the unknown.

YUMA, Ariz. - An Arizona woman was stuck in a canal near Yuma for 18 hours after she tried to rescue her dog who fell in on June 6.She held onto dear life as help arrived just before she was about to give up. A train conductor luckily saw her and called for help.The canal current is strong and fast, making the 18-hour fight for her and her 50-pound dog's life nearly impossible while holding onto a tree.The 12-foot embankment was so steep they couldn’t get out."The will to survive is what makes this a great story," says Sgt. Juan Salcido with Wellton Police, who was first on the scene to assist her and pull her and her dog out of the canal.The conductor who saw the woman and her dog was in the eighth train that went by that day."Her body told the story of her constant fight.

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Passions flared on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon as hundreds demonstrated at the Capitol calling on Congress to create a national ban on assault weapons in the wake of recent mass shootings. It's only been a couple of days since a new "red flag" gun control bill was signed into law by the president. Protestors call the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act a good start, but they want more — specifically, a national assault weapon ban and universal background checks. People from Highland Park, Illinois, and Uvalde, Texas helped deliver the message. The group March Fourth formed after a mass shooter in Highland Park killed seven people at a Fourth of July parade.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherDespite Republicans and Democrats just passing new gun control measures, marchers like Laura Medina — whose 10-year-old cousin Exavior Lopez was killed in Uvalde — tell FOX 5 they came to Washington because their work isn't over. "We need to fight! We need to fight for him because he can't fight for himself," Medina said.

In this photo illustration, the official profile of Elon Musk on the social network Twitter. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter said Tuesday it has sued Elon Musk to force him to complete the $44-billion acquisition of the social media company.Musk and Twitter have been bracing for a legal fight since the billionaire said Friday he was backing off of his April agreement to buy the company.Twitter’s lawsuit opens with a sharply-worded accusation that "Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests.""Having mounted a public spectacle to put Twitter in play, and having proposed and then signed a seller-friendly merger agreement, Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away," the suit says.Twitter filed its lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, which frequently handles business disputes among the many corporations, including Twitter, that are incorporated there.Musk alleged Friday that Twitter has failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Young people are fearing for their safety as they live through an epidemic of gun violence. Now, kids are calling on their local leaders to do something to keep them safe in their neighborhoods. Children in Wilmington, Delaware, pleaded for help as they held signs that detailed the trauma that gun violence causes them during a peace rally on Monday night at Rodney Square in downtown Wilmington. "I’m tired of having to walk somewhere and then stay on my guard," said one teen.Justin Dye, a 14-year-old who is a part of the Stop the Violence Prayer Chain Foundation, helps young people deal with the loss of a loved one due to gun or domestic violence. "I can’t even walk to school.

PHILADELPHIA - Police say a man turned the tables on two suspects during a botched robbery in a Philadelphia neighborhood Monday afternoon.One suspect reportedly tried to rob the 46-year-old victim at gunpoint near Erdrick and East Cheltenham streets around 2 p.m.Police say he fought back, took the suspect's gun and tried to hold him down.A second suspect then rushes his way and started firing shots striking the victim in the leg, according to police.When the victim returned fire, police say both suspects retreated to a car parked down the street and fled.The victim is said to be in stable condition after being transported to a local hospital.Police say 15 shell casing and two projectiles were found at the scene.

Revellers fall to the ground as they run with Jose Escolar Gil's fighting bulls along Calle Estafeta during the forth day of the San Fermin Running of the Bulls festival on July 09, 2022 in Pamplona, Spain. The iconic Spanish festival has resumed in PAMPLONA, Spain (AP) - A tense fifth bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival on Monday left three people gored, including one American, and three others with bruises, the Navarra regional government said.It was the first run with gorings in the festival so far this year.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A proposal to have voters decide whether to add a provision the Pennsylvania Constitution to say it does not guarantee any rights relating to abortion or public funding of abortions passed the Legislature on Friday and could be on the ballot next spring.The language was among five proposed Republican-written amendments that were approved by both the House and Senate after a pair of charged debates among state lawmakers who have promised their voters to fight for or against abortion rights."Do we want the people of the commonwealth to fund abortions — why are we so afraid to put this question before the people?" said Rep. Clint Owlett, of Tioga County, among many Republicans to focus on letting the voters decide.Democrats said the measure was a step that will put GOP lawmakers closer to achieving what is, for most of them, a longstanding goal: to prohibit or severely limit access to abortion."It's a pathway," said Rep.

NEW YORK - Three women have been arrested and a Lower East Side restaurant is rebuilding after a shocking incident captured on social media over the July 4 holiday weekend.According to authorities, the women, identified as Pearl Ozaria, Chitara Plasencia and Tatiyanna Johnson, walked into Bel Fries on Ludlow Street at around 4 a.m.

Philadelphia police seek the driver of a blue Ford F 150 after an 11-year-old boy was struck on West Girard Avenue. WEST PHILADELPHIA - An 11-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was struck by a driver in a pickup truck in West Philadelphia.Officials say the incident occurred on the 4200 block of West Girard Avenue Thursday evening, around 7:45.The boy was crossing Girard Avenue when a man driving a blue Ford F 150 struck him.

Who killed Rita Horbyk? A war crime in Ukraine, heartbreak and a flawed investigation The commander’s deadly order initiated a sequence of events that defies simple narratives about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Unwilling to kill innocents, two Russian soldiers disobeyed and tried to save a woman and her daughter. When Russian troops opened fire, the woman was killed.So was one of the insubordinate soldiers.

Putin is facing more health issues after he was spotted struggling to stay awake.The deranged dictator could barely hold his head up during a meeting with his Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday.He is rumoured to have thyroid cancer and health experts say that drugs used to treat the condition could explain the despot’s puffy face.READ MORE: Putin's descent from strongman to 'feeble cancer victim' took just 3 years, pics showThe 69-year-old is known for working hard to maintain a masculine, hardman appearance – but his steady decline has unfolded in front of the world’s media.He mumbled a half-hearted congratulations to his soldiers before making the deluded claim they had “liberated” the eastern region of Luhansk in Ukraine.The former KGB man added: "Other military units, including the East group and the West group, must carry out their tasks according to previously approved plans."Professor Angus Dalgleish of St George's, University of London, previously told The Mirror that Putin appears to be taking steroids.He explained: "We hear all the things that people say about him such as him losing his temper quickly and he's very frustrated so I think that he's clearly been on anabolic steroids."The medical expert claimed behaviour such as posing bare-chested on horses is a sign of narcissism, after the famous photo of the Russian President on a ride was mocked by Western leaders.He added: "Those sorts of people are likely to be taking anabolic steroids.Stay in the loop with all the latest Daily Star news by signing up to one of our free newsletters here."He's had that really bad back pain so he's likely to be taking opiates, they can also make you dumb and aggressive."It’s not the first time questions have been raised

WINSLOW TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Officials say a fight between coworkers in Winslow Township, New Jersey, ended with one man in the hospital after he was stabbed. Officials in Camden County said the fight happened about 11 in the morning Wednesday at the Elmtowne Development in Winslow Township. Two landscape employees got into a fight, and escalated to a point where one worker stabbed the other. The victim was taken to Cooper Hospital. There were no details regarding his condition.The accused, identified as 42-year-old Jose Perez, of Sicklerville, was arrested without incident.

HOBOKEN, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed a package of gun safety bills into law on Tuesday as the country recovers after yet another mass shooting."There are those who think it this is all just the price of living in the United States.

B.C. woman with life-threatening injuries after serious crash in N.S.

TAYLOR COUNTY, Fla. - A Florida teenager who fought off a shark that attacked her in Taylor County will have to have her leg amputated. Addison Bethea, 17, of Perry, Florida, was scalloping with her brother, Rhett, off the coast of Keaton Beach when she felt something tap her leg. Just seconds later, she was being pulled underwater by an estimated 9-foot shark. "She was fighting the shark.

An SH-60 Seahawk helicopter from the USS Monterey flies above a stateless dhow, a type of  sailing vessel, in the Arabian Sea, May 6, 2021. The Navy said sailors found thousands of illicit weapons on board.

A US Navy patrol ship guards US and coalitions ships docked at the US 5th Fleet Command in Bahrain's capital Manama on Dec. 17, 2019.

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - A 17-year-old boy was shot in the stomach and is fighting for his life in Southwest Philadelphia.Police were called to the 1900 block of South 67th Street Saturday night, just after 9, on the report of gunshots, according to authorities.Responding officers found the teen with a gunshot wound to his stomach.Police rushed the teen to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was placed in critical condition.Police are searching for the shooter and a motive.

Shooting erupts at Philadelphia bar, according to police. PHILADELPHIA - A fight during a Saturday night out in Philadelphia quickly escalated into one man being shot, according to police.Two men reportedly got into a fight outside Ipanema Sports Bar and Grill on Castor Avenue in Rhawnhurst shortly after 2 a.m. Police say they found a 26-year-old man when responding to calls of gunshots.

WEST PHILADELPHIA - A 31-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was shot multiple times in West Philadelphia.Officials say 19th District officers responded to North 62nd Street Saturday evening, just after 6, for gunfire.When officers arrived, they found the 31-year-old man had been shot multiple times, all over his body.MORE HEADLINES:Medics rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he was placed in extremely critical condition.Police are holding the scene and seeking a motive into the shooting.

Sheila O'Leary is facing life in prison. (Lee County Sheriff's Office) LEE COUNTY, Fla. - A vegan mother is facing life in prison for murdering her 18-month-old child who starved to death on a strict raw fruit and vegetable diet. A Florida jury convicted Sheila O’Leary, 39, on Wednesday of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect in the death of her son, Ezra.Ezra weighed 17 pounds – seven pounds below average – when he died in his sleep in 2019.Following Ezra’s death, Sheila and her husband, Ryan, told authorities that the family followed a strict vegan diet limited to "only raw fruits and vegetables" and "breast milk," according to News Press.At the time of Ezra’s death, their three other children – all under the age of 11 – were suffering from malnutrition and dehydration. MORE NEWS: 'She was fighting the shark': Mom of Florida teen attacked by shark describes terrifying ordealO’Leary told detectives that her son did not eat for a week and that he was "having trouble sleeping the night prior to his death."During the Lee County trial on Wednesday, prosecutor Francine Donnorummo, special victims unit chief at the state attorney's office, used O’Leary’s Google searches at the time Ezra’s health declined as evidence against her. Donnorummo emphasized Ezra’s condition was chronic as O’Leary failed to provide her child with food and health care, according to News Press."This was a thought-out, planned course of action," Donnorummo said.

Authorities say a man was shot several times during a shootout Friday night in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say a shootout between at least two men Friday night in Philadelphia left one of the gunmen fighting for his life. Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department were called to the 100 block of East Wishart Street shortly before 7:30 p.m.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - While four out of the five major casinos in Atlantic City have come to tentative agreements with their labor unions, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino remains the last player at the table."We’re fighting for our pay, we are now no longer in the 40’s and I feel like it definitely needs to go up. We need to be able to at least come to work and have gas in our tanks to get to work," said Ashley Coleman, a cocktail server at Hard Rock.She says the pay isn’t enough to support a family.

cruise ship that involved around 40 to 60 passengers.The U.S. Coast Guard was alerted to the brawl at 4 a.m.

daring terrorist attacks in European history." The surveillance videos were captured in Kremenchuk on Monday just moments after Russian missiles hit the nearby Amstor shopping center. The strike left 18 dead out of the more than 1,000 civilians Zelenskyy said were inside the building at the time. In a dramatic scene captured on the video, a Ukrainian couple lounging under a tree at the park is seen springing to their feet before the shockwave from the explosion sends the male individual tumbling to the ground. A Ukrainian is seen leaping into a pond as debris starts falling from the sky.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania's new fiscal year will begin without a state budget in place, as Gov.

Isiah Roberts MERCER COUNTY, N.J. - A New Jersey man will face several charges after a nine-year-old girl was killed while playing outside with her brother in Trenton.Sequoya Bacon-Jones, 9, was playing with her brother and other friends outside when she was struck by gunfire in the Kingsbury Square courtyard on March 25. She later died from her injuries at a hospital.RELATED COVERAGE: Trenton community mourns 9-year-old girl killed in shootingPolice say the shooting stemmed from a nearby argument between two women.

WASHINGTON - Ketanji Brown Jackson is set to be sworn in on Thursday as the U.S. Supreme Court’s 116th justice and the first Black woman to serve on the high court. The ceremony, which is being livestreamed at 12 p.m.

FILE - Sheets and mylar blankets flutter in the wind at a makeshift shelter at the U.S.-Mexico border wall as immigrants wait for transport to a U.S. Border Patrol processing center on Dec.

Farmers in Oregon already battling extreme drought and low water supplies are fighting against future grasshopper and Mormon cricket infestations. ARLINGTON, Ore. (AP) - Driving down a windy canyon road in northern Oregon rangeland, Jordan Maley and April Aamodt are on the look out for Mormon crickets, giant insects that can ravage crops."There’s one right there," Aamodt says.They’re not hard to spot.

SKIPPACK, Pa. - With the overturn of Roe v. Wade came a heightened demand for the Plan B pill. This spike in demand for the "morning after" pill is making it difficult for pharmacies to keep it on the shelves. Pharmacies like CVS and Rite Aid have begun limiting the amount of Plan B that a customer can buy.

COVID-19 booster shot this fall -- and exactly how best to update it to fight a virus that surely will change even more by then."That’s the problem -- we’re being asked to more or less have a crystal ball today," said Dr. Arnold Monto of the University of Michigan, who heads the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee.Current COVID-19 vaccines have saved millions of lives globally and those used in the U.S.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (FOX 5 DC) - A wreath-laying ceremony was held in Annapolis on Tuesday to honor the five journalists and staff killed in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in 2018.Download the FOX 5 DC News App for Local Breaking News and WeatherRebecca Smith, Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fishman, and John McNamara were killed on June 28, 2018, in the largest workplace mass shooting of journalists in American history.Annapolis is hosting a wreath-laying ceremony to honor the five journalists and staff killed in a mass shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in 2018.Jarrod Ramos pleaded guilty to all 23 counts against him in 2019.

U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to overturn the landmark Roe v.

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Tarrant County jury has convicted the man charged with the death of a Fort Worth police officer.It took jurors about half an hour to find Timothy Huff guilty of capital murder.Prosecutors argued Huff was part of a dangerous armed robbery gang that had been terrorizing patrons at Latino bars in 2018.RELATED: Robbery victims testify in trial for Fort Worth Officer Garrett Hull’s murderOfficer Garrett Hull was shot and killed as he and other officers confronted the suspects. The man who shot Officer Hull was killed by other officers. Huff and another suspect were arrested and both charged with capital murder.Timothy Huff was found guilty of capital murder for the 2018 death of Fort Worth Officer Garrett Hull.

MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is fighting another wildfire, this time in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest.The agency announced they were responding to the fire Sunday afternoon.A wildfire burns in Brendan T.

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that left a 24-year-old man fighting for his life.According to authorities, 12th District police responded to multiple 911 calls for gunshots Saturday night, around 9:30, on the 5400 block of Grays Avenue, in Southwest Philadelphia.Philadelphia police investigate a shooting in Southwest Philadelphia that critically injured a 24-year-old man. Responding officers found the 24-year-old man shot multiple times all over his body and head.Police rushed him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where he is listed in extremely critical condition.Philadelphia Inspector DF Pace stated at least 45 spent shell casings from different caliber weapons were found at the scene.

for overturning Roe v. Wade, giving states power regarding abortion rights. "Twenty-five percent of U.S. adults say they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the U.S.

PHILADELPHIA - Beer lovers, rejoice! A new agreement between local beer distributors and its workers means your Fourth of July is officially saved.Teamsters Local 830 went on strike earlier this week after rejecting a proposed contract from the Delaware Valley Importers Distributors Association. Picket lines went up at three big beer distributors: Muller, Inc. and Origlio Beverage in Philadelphia and Penn Beer in Hatfield in Montgomery County.

File: Poll workers wait for voters on May 17, 2022 in Cary, North Carolina. (Photo by Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in an ongoing fight over the state's latest photo identification voting law.The 8-1 decision doesn't end the more than three-year dispute over the voter ID law, which is not currently in effect and has been challenged in both state and federal court.

PHILADELPHIA - A judge ruled Tuesday that two men will go on trial for murder after a fight at Pat's King of Steaks last year killed a 28-year-old man.Omar Arce, 33, and Jose Alberto Flores-Huerta, 34, were arrested in September 2021 after they were caught on surveillance video outside the iconic South Philadelphia cheesesteak shop.Police say the brawl erupted between two groups after the Philadelphia Union soccer game against Club America at Subaru Stadium in Chester. Isidro Cortez, 28, died after video showed him being pummeled with kicks and punches and beaten with a metal trash can lid.  His 64-year-old father and a friend were also hurt.Police say Arce and Flores-Huerta were one of four men sought for the deadly brawl.

PHILADELPHIA - A St. Joseph's University student has been hospitalized after police say he was the victim of an attempted carjacking Wednesday morning.Police say the student was getting out of his car when he was approached by a black Dodge Caravan on Upland Way around 1:30 a.m.Two masked suspects got out of the van, and allegedly tried to steal his keys and car.When the students tried to fight them off, police say one of the suspects hit him in the head with a handgun.Two shots were then fired at the student, hitting him in the knee, according to police.

PHILADELPHIA - Young Philadelphians frustrated by the relentless gun violence plaguing the city gathered Monday near the site of the South Street mass shooting to call for peace. ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Humble’ organized its first Philadelphia Youth March Monday afternoon to promote unity and solutions to curb gun violence. The march began at the intersection of South and 3rd streets, an intersection that recently saw the worst of Philadelphia's gun violence problem. Earlier this month, police say three people were killed and nearly a dozen others were injured when a fight escalated to gunfire.

Courtesy: Martin County Sheriff's Office PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A South Florida man who deputies say boasted about his lucrative dog breeding business online found himself fighting for his life when three men posing as dog buyers robbed him at gunpoint, carjacked him and held him captive for two days before he was able to summon help from an alert deputy. According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, Tsdekiel Sellers, 22, of Atlanta, Benyahveen Radcliffe, 25, of Buffalo, and Kashaveeyah Bragdon, 22, of Tallahassee, who claim to be a part of the Israelites, drove to the victim’s Port St.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia is honoring one of its fallen firefighters, who sacrificed his life to protect those living in his city.Lt. Sean Williamson, a 27-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, was killed when a building collapsed after a fire broke out in Fairhill Saturday morning.The 51-year-old firefighter leaves behind his mother and son.Williamson was one of six people who became trapped under the building.

FAIRHILL - Neighbors in Fairhill are recounting the horrific moments leading up to the deadly building collapse after an early morning fire."I was walking in the house with the homeowner because I deal with the insurance company and, literally, as soon as I stepped in this mess, the building started collapsing," Emergency Services Representative Kareem Hampton said.A worst case scenario playing out in the early morning hours at the corner of 3rd and Indiana Saturday."It’s a sad day for the Philadelphia Fire Department. Unfortunately, our department lost a member fighting bravely a fire and then being caught in a building collapse after the fire was over," Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy stated.MORE HEADLINES:Eyewitnesses at the scene describe the scene as calm one moment and pure mayhem the next."The Fire Marshall had just walked in there.

Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that left an 18-year-old man in critical condition. WEST PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say an 18-year-old male is fighting for his life after he was shot multiple times in a West Philadelphia alley.According to authorities, police responded to the 1000 block of North 39th Street Saturday night, just after 9:30, after receiving multiple 911 calls regarding a person shot.Officers arrived to find an 18-year-old suffering from gunshot wounds across his entire body.