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Jessie Askew Jr. was sentenced to life without parole for a clumsy armed robbery with an unloaded gun. The man who sent him away was determined to bring him back home.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is planning to challenge the larger story of deceit and hypocrisy the Trump administration has been telling about its use of paid informants, court papers suggest.
A federal judge in New York has blocked the Justice Department's attempt to move Maurene Comey's lawsuit over her firing as a federal prosecutor out of court.
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In January, Kim Keon Hee was sentenced to 20 months for accepting gifts from the Unification Church, which sought political favors.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson's "hell week" is already veering off course, with GOP infighting derailing his packed agenda. Why it matters: Another GOP revolt is colliding with imminent deadlines to prevent a key surveillance tool , as well as money to pay Department of Homeland Security workers, from lapsing. - Johnson (R-La.) is trying to jam three contentious measures into one pre-recess week: A long-term extension of Section 702 of FISA, the farm bill, and the Senate-passed budget reconciliation package to fund ICE and Border Patrol. - But his own Republicans are threatening to vote down the rule setting up debate on all three of those bills, with conservatives still demanding changes. State of play: The House is effectively frozen…
Assassination attempts against sitting presidents have tended to compound their political problems and isolate them from the public.
The court filing links the security breach at the White House correspondents’ dinner to the lawsuit over President Trump’s ballroom project.
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Musk’s posts on his X social media platform have pushed his narrative that OpenAI has lost its way.
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People recovering from opioid addiction risk relapse when they can't get their medications after natural disasters. A group of doctors is calling for lawmakers to ease access to the meds.
In an unsanctioned mission, the Foreign Service officer helped evacuate about 200 South Vietnamese citizens from Saigon days before the city fell in 1975.
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