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The FBI seized former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell's electronic devices as part of an ongoing criminal probe, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Swalwell was served with a search warrant for his cellphone and other electronic devices while he was at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday night, according to sources, and agents served a search warrant at his Washington, D.C., home on Sunday.
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Last month, Kelly Ocampo believed she received good news: Her 21-year-old pregnant sister had finally been granted bond and was going to be released from the family immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas.
The letter she received from a lawyer to whom she had paid more than $3,000 was written on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement letterhead and stated that the ICE bond for Maria Alejandra Gomez-Quiroz was approved.
"This notice confirms that the immigration bond ordered by the Immigration Court has been successfully paid through an official payment method authorized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)," the letter stated.
The storm arrived with estimated sustained winds of 185 mph and a
minimum central pressure of 892 mb. Those numbers place Melissa among the strongest hurricane landfalls ever recorded in the Atlantic basin.
By wind speed, Melissa tied with storms such as Hurricane Dorian in
2019 and the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane. Its pressure also matched the 1935 hurricane for the lowest recorded landfall pressure in the Atlantic.
Melissa’s intensity showed how quickly Atlantic hurricanes can become catastrophic before landfall. For Jamaica, the storm brought the threat of destructive winds, heavy rain, and dangerous storm surge with very little time to prepare.
President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes targeting military, government and infrastructure sites.
Delegations from the U.S. and Iran entered negotiations in June aimed at a war-ending deal based on a memorandum of understanding signed by both countries.
The U.S. and Iran have nonetheless continued to exchange strikes, with the strategic Strait of Hormuz the primary flashpoint.
LONDON -- North Korea fired an unidentified projectile in an eastward direction on Thursday, according to a statement released by the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff and quoted by the country's Yonhap News Agency.
The JCS said it detected the launch but did not provide any further details.
Japan's Defense Ministry said the projectile appeared to be a ballistic missile and that the munition fell outside of Japan's exclusive economic zone.
The latest North Korean missile launch comes as U.S.-South Korean military drills -- Ulchi Freedom Shield -- are ongoing on the peninsula, though the drills are expected to end early on Friday following an order from President Donald Trump to "substantially reduce" the annual exercise.
Trump cited his "very good" relationship with North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un when announcing the decision, and on Wednesday said he plans to meet with Kim later this year.
North Korea has criticized the drills as an "open threat" and threatened a strong response against both the U.S. and South Korea.
Pyongyang has maintained a steady rhythm of ballistic missile tests in recent years, despite U.S. and international condemnation. Thursday's launch came around a week after Pyongyang fired a short-range ballistic missile off its east coast on Aug. 12.
-ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Anthony Trotter contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump said he is pausing for three days the new 50% tariffs on Canadian goods set to go into effect early Wednesday, citing a deal between the U.S. and Canada.
"I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL," Trump said in a social media post.
The new tariffs, targeting dozens of products from hockey sticks to wine, were set to go into effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday.
The U.S. Trade Representative's official account on X responded to Trump's announcement, providing a bit of insight into what a final deal might entail.
"The deal will include comprehensive market access for all American goods, economic security commitments, digital trade alignment, and many important provisions that will continue to protect our market and American workers, along with our Canadian partners," the USTR posted.
While the president did not offer specifics about the deal, he did suggest that it might include a renewed effort to build the Keystone Pipeline, despite the project being canceled in 2021 after years of criticism about the project's environmental impact.
"Keystone XL Pipeline, long ago killed by Sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave!" Trump added in the post.
Due to exemptions on key goods, the tariffs were expected to hit only a fraction of U.S. imports from Canada.
Still, the list of affected goods features an array of food items such as dairy products, honey, whey protein and molasses; as well as alcoholic beverages like whiskey and vodka.
It all comes weeks after Trump imposed sweeping new tariffs on 60 trade partners, including the European Union. Those levies ramped up an effort to reconstruct far-reaching duties struck down by the Supreme Court earlier this year.
Unlike previous tariffs, the new Canada tariffs would have applied to products compliant with the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, a free trade agreement. The levies included significant exemptions, however, leaving out some top Canadian imports such as oil, gas and potash.
Trump first announced the tariffs in a series of executive orders last month, saying the move had been made in retaliation for Canadian policies he considers discriminatory against U.S. exports.
"President Trump is offsetting the burden and disadvantage on U.S. commerce from Canada's discriminatory treatment of U.S. commerce and is leveling the playing field for crucial American exports--cars, alcohol, and dairy," the White House said at the time.
In a statement last month, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney criticized a flurry of U.S. tariffs put forward since last year, saying Canada has "merely matched those measures."
"This trade dispute has raised costs for families, particularly in the U.S. Canada stands ready to engage intensively to address outstanding issues with the U.S. to the mutual benefit of our citizens," Carney said.
Trump has carried out on-again, off-again trade negotiations with Canada since he took office, aiming to resolve a dispute that began with tariffs announced by Trump early in his second term.
Trump sought to impose the tariffs under a legal authority enshrined in section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which allows the president to enact levies up to 50% for countries found to have discriminated against the U.S. relative to their treatment of other nations.
The provision has never been invoked before, meaning the move lacks judicial precedent, Abigail Watt, an economist at UBS, said in a memo shared with ABC News.
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