'A circus': Mississippi Supreme Court Justice decries efforts to keep him in lawsuit
Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Mike Randolph says efforts to attach him to a lawsuit challenging a new state law are a “circus” with “no legal precedent in U_S_ history.”
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Texas representative becomes first Black woman Democrat to play in Congressional Baseball Game
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett broke new ground Wednesday night as the first Black woman Democrat to play in the Congressional Baseball Game's 114-year history.
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Ex-Harvard morgue manager indicted for trafficking body parts -US prosecutors
By Brad Brooks The former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School was among five people indicted by a
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Australia seeking to stop Russia from building new embassy near Parliament for security reasons
Australia’s House of Representatives has passed legislation to prevent Russia from building its embassy near Parliament House on security grounds
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Ex-US congressman seeks no prison time at July sentencing for insider trading conviction
Lawyers for former a former Indiana congressman say he should be spared from prison after his insider trading conviction
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Experts question prosecutors' strategy against weapons expert in Alec Baldwin case
Prosecutors have yet to offer any evidence that would solve the biggest mystery in the deadly shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on a film set in 2021: How did live rounds get on the set
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Four major environmental groups endorse Biden's reelection
Four major environmental groups endorsed President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection for president on Wednesday night, ahead of the president's speech at a League of Conservation Voters dinner in the nation's capital.
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Biden gets backing of leading environmental groups for re-election
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON A collection of the nation's leading and biggest spending environmental groups
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FACT FOCUS: Trump twists Presidential Records Act, Clinton ‘sock drawer’ case to mount defense
Former President Donald Trump and his allies are claiming a federal law enacted in the wake of the Watergate scandal and a decade-old case involving former President Bill Clinton gave him the right to take any documents from the White House after losing his bid for re-election
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Justice Department reaches settlement with Kentucky school district over racial harassment of students
The Department of Justice announced Monday it reached an agreement with Madison County Schools in Kentucky to settle a federal investigation "into complaints of serious and widespread racial harassment of Black and multi-racial students."
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Former boyfriend of missing Wyoming woman sentenced to six years in prison, report says
The live-in boyfriend of Irene Gakwa was sentenced Wednesday to up to six years in prison and ordered to pay more than $13,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from her in the weeks after she vanished more than a year ago in Wyoming, according to the Gillette News Record.
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Chasing Horse charged with more sex crimes in new Canadian case
Canadian authorities announced this week that Nathan Chasing Horse has been charged in the province of Alberta with sexual assault and sexual exploitation
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