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Masked federal agents grabbed a couple men off the sidewalk outside a Home Depot in Los Angeles ... including one man who threw a glass object at their unmarked van, and bystanders claim he's a U.S. citizen.

TMZ shot video of a dramatic immigration raid Monday morning ... and a swarm of masked agents in blue jeans, sneakers and tactical gear detain a day laborer looking for work in a hauling truck. We're told the day laborer's name is Hector.

As the masked men -- some wearing police vests -- drive off in an unmarked van, a guy on the sidewalk watching the raid with his mother throws a glass object at the van and it shatters. The van comes to a screeching halt, and the occupants rush over to the guy and detain him ... as the man's mother begs them to stop and people scream that he's a U.S. citizen.

Jake Haro -- accused, along with his wife, of killing their infant child -- is lending a hand to cops searching mountains outside L.A. for the missing baby, but so far they're still coming up empty.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies escorted Haro Sunday in an orange jumpsuit and shackles to a mountainous area of Moreno Valley in Riverside County, CA ... hoping to find 7-month-old Emmanuel.

Haro and the cops conducted their search for several hours in the afternoon -- and while it ended unsuccessfully ... there was a brief moment of hope, fueled by a false report.

The arrest of the parents of missing 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro was nothing short of dramatic -- and it's all on video.

The video shows Jake and Rebecca Haro slammed in handcuffs outside their Cabazon, California home on Friday, surrounded by detectives from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Homicide Detail and Specialized Enforcement Division, before being hauled off in a cop car.

Authorities now believe baby Emmanuel is deceased, and the search for his remains is still ongoing.

Ghislaine Maxwell's drawing a hard line -- insisting she never saw Donald Trump tangled up in her and Jeffrey Epstein’s sordid business or doing anything remotely inappropriate with underage girls.

The Justice Department just unsealed Maxwell’s full prison interview transcript from last month at Florida’s FCI Tallahassee -- where she’s serving a 20-year stretch -- and in it, she flat-out denies ever seeing Trump anywhere near Epstein’s massage tables, getting rubdowns from the minor girls she procured, hanging at his home ... or caught in any inappropriate situation at all.

In fact, Maxwell told Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that every time she crossed paths with Trump, he was nothing but "a gentleman in all respects" -- and she never saw him act out of line with anyone.

A conspiracy theory podcast host’s real-life plot just turned darker than any episode -- he’s reportedly been charged for allegedly murdering his own girlfriend.

Tobias Marcus Nuttall -- the Aussie podcaster who dives into "occult, magick, spirituality, and all things clandestine" on-air -- just faced the Perth Magistrates Court, accused of stabbing his 30-year-old girlfriend to death.

According to media reports, Nuttall, 32, stayed silent in court -- only speaking up to confirm his name.

Courtney Clenney killed her boyfriend Christian Obumseli in Miami back in 2022 ... but whether she murdered him or killed him in self-defense will be the subject of her trial -- and, we examine the case in a documentary now available to stream on YouTube.

We've put our doc "TMZ Investigates: Killer OnlyFans Model: Deadly Love Story" on the video streaming site ... which takes viewers through all the beats of Clenney and Obumseli's toxic relationship.

Clenney -- who was seen hitting Christian during a trip to Aspen, Colorado -- has claimed self-defense. She's facing a second-degree murder charge in Florida.

An explosion shook the waters near Baltimore's Key Bridge Monday evening but thankfully, it wasn't the tragedy it could've been.

Baltimore City Fire officials say the blast broke out aboard a 751-foot bulk carrier packed with coal around 6:28 PM, just after leaving the dock. The massive ship -- carrying 23 crew members -- immediately drew an emergency response by both land and water. Officials say everyone onboard is safe and accounted for.

The aftermath looked intense as a huge black plume of smoke shot into the sky, hovering over the water, startling nearby residents. The Coast Guard says they're investigating what caused the fire.

4:08 PM PT -- President Trump and Vladimir Putin had a brief joint presser following their roughly 2 1/2 hour meeting ... revealing not much about what was discussed saying "there's no deal until there's a deal" and that they didn't "get there" -- leaving us to assume there is much more work ahead.

Putin ended the conference suggesting their next meeting location should be held in Moscow -- Russia's capital -- in which Trump responded with "I'll get a little heat on that one ... but I could see it possibly happening."

President Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin are both on the ground in Alaska for a high-stakes summit -- the powerful world leaders just greeted each other on the tarmac ... and it's all on video.

Trump and Putin shook hands Friday after flying into Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage ... emerging from their planes after waiting around on their aircraft for a good while after landing.

They each walked down a red carpet and Trump waited for Putin and then they shook hands and patted each other on the shoulder, exchanging a few words on their way over to a blue stage adorned with "ALASKA 2025."

The guy who got caught vaping in the lavatory on an American Airlines flight followed through with his threats to file a police report against the flight attendant ... and he told cops she exposed his genitals and assaulted him.

TMZ obtained the report Peter Nguyen Wong filed with police in California ... and he claims the flight attendant unlocked the lavatory door while he was inside and caught him taking one hit from a vape.

When the flight attendant allegedly opened the door, Wong claims his genitals were exposed to other passengers.

Jeff Bezos is facing heartbreak -- his mother, Jacklyn "Jackie" Bezos, has died at 78.

The Bezos Family Foundation announced the sad news Thursday, sharing a photo of Jackie along with a lengthy tribute, saying she died peacefully at her Miami home -- and while the cause of death hasn’t been revealed, the Foundation noted she was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia in 2020.

A Georgia news station had a hard time getting Michael Penix Jr.'s name right in a lower third this week ... creating a scene that had plenty of grown adults giggling like school children.

Check out the way WTOC 11 in Savannah presented Penix Jr.'s press conference on its Wednesday evening broadcast ... it accidentally wrote Michael "Penis" Jr. on a graphic identifying the Falcons quarterback.

To be fair, the X and the S are close by on a keyboard -- and we're sure it's happened plenty of times to Atlanta reporters since the 25-year-old joined the team last year ... but social media users nonetheless ate it up.

Donald Trump's ready to rock out with Rocky and more stars at this year's Kennedy Center Honors ... 'cause he announced the spotlight's going on KISS and Sylvester Stallone.

The President of the United States -- who was named chairman of the center earlier this year -- announced all five honorees for this year's ceremony Wednesday ... speaking about his friend Stallone at length.

POTUS lauded Stallone for his acting chops ... adding Sly's not the kind of person who looks for public adulation -- but, DJT says Sly was incredibly honored when he called to give him the good news.

An all-out brawl broke out at a Florida lake -- and it was so brutal that two people were knocked unconscious before police rounded up the suspects and tossed them in the pokey!

The donnybrook, which kicked off August 2, was captured on cellphone video by a witness at Lake Winterset in Polk County -- about an hour east of Tampa -- and later uploaded to social media.

Check out the footage ... the knuckleheads went all WWE for the camera, throwing punches and kicking each other. One dude is seen lying unconscious on the ground as a young bikini-clad woman performs CPR on him.

President Trump has dispatched his army of federal agents to the gritty streets of D.C. to put an end to violent crime -- but what he's actually doing is killing the vibe for a bunch dudes just chilling out, with one just havin' a smoke ... according to a new video.

The footage was shot in the nation's capital and posted Tuesday to X, and appears to show federal law enforcement officers, flashlights at the ready, approaching a bunch of guys resting their rumps on cement stairs.

They ask to see the ID of one man who they think is smoking -- wait for it -- a joint! Ooooo! But once they find out it's just a cigarette, the agents don't pursue the matter any further and move on to other quality of life issues.

8:37 AM PT -- A rep for Pete Buttigieg tells TMZ ... "Instead of doing his job, Sean Duffy continues his obsession with Pete by spewing nonsense that has no basis in fact and the New York Post continues to give that nonsense a boost."

Pete Buttigieg and the Biden Administration are to blame for the lack of competent air traffic controllers ... so says the current Secretary of Transportation.

Sean Duffy threw blame around on the "Pod Force One" podcast ... claiming Buttigieg lowered the requirements to be considered a "well-qualified" air traffic controller while in charge of the federal agency.

Duffy claims the threshold on the Air Traffic Skills Assessment used to be 85% to be considered well-qualified ... but, he claims, under Buttigieg, that number was changed to 80% -- a seemingly small statistical difference that Duffy says has a huge impact.

Die-hard MAGA fans who’ve jumped ship on President Donald Trump should reap what they sowed -- no forgiveness, says D.L. Hughley.

The comedian joined us Tuesday on "TMZ Live," saying the only reason some folks turn anti-Trump is because he caused something bad to happen to them or someone close -- not because bad things have been happening to others all along during his 2 times in office ... which, in his book, makes these former Trumpers selfish.

D.L. pops off in our video, brushing off Charles’ question about forgiveness in politics and saying the whole Republican game now is built on loyalty -- and they ride or die with it.