Vermont Attorney General Chairty Clark, along with 17 other states, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The lawsuit alleges that the order is in violation of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section 1401 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. “I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, and this executive order is plainly unconstitutional,” said Clark in a press statement. “Babies born here in Vermont have a constitutional right to be embraced as...

Vermont officials on Tuesday identified the U.S. Border Patrol agent killed Monday afternoon in Coventry as David Maland. The incident occurred on Interstate 91 at around 3:15 p.m., according to Vermont State Police. The FBI said Monday that a Border Patrol agent was fatally shot and that one “subject” was also killed. A third person was injured and in custody, according to the FBI. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said the agent was “killed in the line of duty” and that the fallen officer had been assigned to the Swanton...

An investigation was underway on Tuesday near the United States’ border with Canada, where an agent was fatally shot “in the line of duty,” authorities said. The fatal encounter unfolded Monday along Interstate 91 in Orleans County, a small community of 27,000 residents tucked away in the rural and remote Northeast Kingdom section of Vermont, just miles from the Derby Line–Rock Island Border Crossing, according to a news release from the Vermont State Police. The suspect was also killed in the shooting, while a third was wounded and taken into...

COVENTRY, Vt. (WCAX) - Federal authorities continue to investigate Monday’s fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent that also left a suspect dead and another injured. Authorities say it happened on Interstate 91 around 3:15 p.m. near the Coventry-Newport town line. Sources now tell WCAX the name of the agent is David Maland. They say the on-duty officer was shot in the neck and died from his injuries. One of the suspects was also killed and another was wounded. There was no immediate information on what prompted the shooting....

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop Monday in Coventry, Vermont, near the U.S. border with Canada, the agency said in a statement. The incident was the first time since the 2010 slaying of Agent Brian Terry in Arizona that a Border Patrol agent was slain by an assailant, according to a memorial list of fallen officers compiled by support groups. One suspect, a German national, is dead, and a second suspect, a U.S. citizen who sustained injuries, is in custody, according to a...

COVENTRY, Vermont — One suspect is dead and another is in custody after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot in the line of duty in northern Vermont on Monday afternoon, federal authorities confirmed. The shooting happened at 3:15 p.m. Monday on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont, near the U.S.-Canada border, according to Vermont State Police. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said that a Border Patrol agent from the Swanton Sector, who has not been identified, was shot and killed in the line of duty. In a...

As Donald Trump swore in as the 47th president of the United States, a Border Patrol agent was shot and killed during a traffic stop in Vermont near the Northern border, Fox News reported. The Department of Homeland Security said that the Border Patrol agent was killed during a traffic stop in Coventry, Vermont on Monday, January 20, at 3:15 pm. Cars are backed up at the US-Canada border in Stanstead, Quebec, after a shooting involving a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vt., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Chloe...

A Border Patrol agent was shot and killed in Newport, Vermont by an illegal alien on Monday, just hours after President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders targeting the open border and illegal immigrants. Fox News Bill Melugin confirmed that the agent was killed during a traffic stop near the northern border in Vermont. According to reports, there were two suspects in the car, one of which was dead. This follows Trump's signing of ten executive orders on immigration immediately after taking office; fulfilling campaign promises to declare...

A Border Patrol agent stationed in Vermont was killed after being shot during an encounter with an individual near the Canadian border, according to a news report. The federal law enforcement agent was killed while conducting a traffic stop near Interstate 91 near the northern border Monday, just as President Donald Trump proceeded through inauguration proceedings in Washington, according to local media outlet WCAX3. The incident occurred between Orleans and Newport, north of the city of Burlington. The agent has not been identified, nor have the identities of the shooter...