United Kingdom-based GKN Aerospace paid nearly $1 million to settle a lawsuit with California regulators after the company was accused of emitting toxic or volatile compounds into the air at its Garden Grove facility.

The lawsuit brought by theSouth Coast Air Quality Management District, which provided a copy of the 2024 settlement agreement to CBS LA, stemmed from a variety of alleged violations by GKN, including a failure to obtain propriate permits.

South Coast AQMD alleged that the GKN Aerospace site was the source of emissions of VOCs or volatile organic compounds. Methyl methacrylate, the substance inside the tank at the center of the chemical incident at the Garden Grove site, is a VOC. However, the settlement does not specify if methyl methacrylate was the VOC allegedly emitted at the GKN site in violation of California regulations.

GKN agreed to pay $909,935 to South Coast AQMD by January 6, 2025.

CBS LA reached out to GKN for comment on the settlement, but was directed to the company’s website for a statement. The statement on the website addressed the current ongoing crisis, but not the settlement.

The Orange County Registerfirst reported the settlementon Saturday.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced on Saturday that his office hadlaunched an investigation into the company after the crisis began.

“For goodness’ sake, they’re in the middle of a commercial area, residential, it’s an urban population. … It’s irresponsible, it’s horrific, and I’m angry about it,” Spitzer said in an interview. “I’m gonna channel my anger to continue to protect the public. … Tonight, we are not getting satisfactory answers. But in the future, I can assure you we will.”

Anti-ICE protesters and authorities clashed Monday outside a New Jersey detention facility where critics allege illegal immigrants are being held in palling conditions.

Protesters attempted to form a human chain outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill attempted to gain access to the building but was refused entry, according to local reports.

“My request for access to Delaney Hall was formally denied this morning, raising serious questions about what they are trying to hide from public view,” Sherrill said, according to Patch.

“I have long opposed private detention facilities and will continue to advocate for the closure of Delaney Hall and against any expansion of mass detention facilities in New Jersey, like the proposed facility in Roxbury,” the governor added.

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Some protesters threw water and yelled at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who were seen detaining several demonstrators, WPIX-TV reported.

Protesters and onlookers were heard screaming at ICE agents, who ordered the crowd to move to a grassy area off the road. Agents and protesters stood face-to-face before the situation calmed down.

“No more ICE!” protesters chanted. Others shouted, “Free them all!”

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Meanwhile, hundreds of detainees inside have launched a hunger and labor strike, as advocates allege they live in poor conditions and are denied medical treatment and visits. In a group letter released last week, nearly 300 detainees said they live in “inhumane” conditions, citing bad food and medical neglect.

The letter acknowledged that they entered the United States illegally, noting that they now feel “kidnped.”

“Initially, we ask for forgiveness for the way we entered the United States, but given the circumstances we were living in our countries, which placed our lives and those of some members of our families in danger,” the letter states. “We feel vulnerable and, in a way, kidnped—detained without justification—not to mention that we are being tortured physically and psychologically due to the poor food resources provided in these detention centers.”

A DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital that all detainees are provided with three meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, so, and toiletries.

“Illegal aliens also have access to phones to communicate with their family members and lawyers, the spokesperson said. “Certified dieticians evaluate meals. In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”

Family members and loved ones have been holding a vigil outside the facility since Friday.

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In February 2025, then-Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the facility was housing “murderers, terrorists, child rists and MS-13 gang members.”

Several elected officials have recently visited the facility or called for its closure, including Sen. Andy Kim and Reps. Rob Menendez Jr., Nellie Pou, LaMonica McIver, Analilia Mejia, and Frank Pallone Jr.

Washington — The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda.”

The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to revise the history of the assault on the Citol, when hundreds of supporters of Republican President Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Mr. Trump, on his first day back in office in January 2025, pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes during the Citol assault, including those convicted of attacking officers with makeshift weons such as flagpoles, a hockey stick and crutch.

On Monday, the Justice Department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has not ruled out that rioters convicted of violence will be eligible for payouts, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress.

After a journalist on Friday observed on the social media platform X that the Justice Department was “quietly” removing news releases on its website that were related to the Jan. 6 attack, including about a Texas man who pleaded guilty to assault and also faced separate state charges of soliciting a minor, the department responded through its “rid response” account that there was “nothing ‘quiet’ about it.”

“We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weonization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes,” the post said. “This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”

Among the releases removed from the site were those concerning seditious conspiracy cases against members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, far-right extremist groups. The Justice Department, in an unopposed motion last month, asked a federal peals court to vacate those seditious conspiracy convictions, a request that was granted Thursday. The department on Friday moved to dismiss the cases against the group members.