The Associated Press
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The bodies were discovered Monday afternoon on the outskirts of San Antonio in what is believed to be the nation’s deadliest smuggling episode on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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The California Department of Justice says it wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases.
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The committee said that it required Cipollone’s testimony after obtaining other evidence about which he was “uniquely positioned to testify.”
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The National Transportation Safety Board says an Amtrak passenger train was going about 87 mph when it collided with a dump truck
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R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse.
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Donald Trump is no longer in contempt of court, a New York judge ruled Wednesday.
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Cain Velasquez's criminal trial is pending.
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A team searching a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping.
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A special French court on Wednesday found 20 men guilty of involvement in the Islamic State terrorist attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and France’s national stadium in 2015 that killed 130 people in the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history.
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Addressing the court before the sentence was announced, Parnas sobbed and apologized to people who had lost money investing in his business ventures.
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Negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers have ended in Qatar after failing to make significant progress.
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The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. calling the decision to no longer recognize a constitutional right to abortion “a setback” that would ultimately cost lives.
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Powell repeated his hope that the Fed can achieve a so-called soft landing.
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By a 5-4 vote, the high court rejected Texas’ claim that it is shielded from such lawsuits.
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Some of the New Orleans cases under review allege abuse by clergy during trips to Mississippi camps or amusement parks in Texas and Florida. And while some claims are decades old, Mann Act violations notably have no statute of limitations.
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History has repeatedly demonstrated that whenever people’s personal data is tracked and stored, there’s always a risk that it could be misused or abused.
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Airbnb has been trying to crack down on parties since late 2019, after a fatal shooting at a rented house in California.
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A missing golden retriever named Lilah, discovered deep inside a culvert pipe in upstate New York, could not be lured out by her owner with peanut butter dog treats or cheese.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 7:58 PM CDT
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At a news conference Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra acknowledged that there was “no magic bullet” to ensure abortion access for those who want it.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 7:14 PM CDT
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Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping millionaire Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teen girls.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 7:05 PM CDT
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All of the posts were informational in nature, and none of the posts featured photos of abortions.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 7:00 PM CDT
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U.S. health officials are expanding the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 6:57 PM CDT
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A jury of seven men and five women was tentatively chosen Tuesday for a penalty trial to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be sentenced to death or get life in prison for the 2018 attack, capping a nearly three-month winnowing process that began with 1,800 candidates.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 6:54 PM CDT
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The director of the national prison system, Tito Castellanos, said the fire broke out during what appeared to be an attempted riot at the medium security prison.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 6:33 PM CDT
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The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it has sued Walmart for allegedly allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists who stole “hundreds of millions of dollars” from customers.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 5:50 PM CDT
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Police in the Bahamas say that carbon monoxide poisoning killed three U.S. tourists found dead at a resort in May.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 5:28 PM CDT
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Government advisers debated Tuesday if Americans should get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall, and exactly how best to update it to fight a virus that surely will change even more by then.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 4:23 PM CDT
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The ruling Tuesday wiped out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder, his health director and seven other people.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 4:07 PM CDT
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A federal court on Tuesday allowed Tennessee’s ban on abortion as early as six weeks into pregnancy to take effect, citing the Supreme Court’s decision last week to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion rights case.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 2:23 PM CDT
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NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 11:40 AM CDT
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John Hinckley Jr., who was freed from all court oversight earlier this month, said that he felt remorse for all the lives his actions affected.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 10:08 AM CDT
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Inflation has soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with rising costs for nearly everything negating Americans’ pay raises.
Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 at 10:04 AM CDT
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The automaker says in documents posted Tuesday by U.S. safety regulators that dust and dirt can accumulate on the secondary hood latch, which can cause it to malfunction.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 9:07 PM CDT
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Facebook and Instagram have begun promptly removing posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to access them following a Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for the procedure.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 8:44 PM CDT
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A lawyer who aided former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the 2020 election results says in a federal court filing that FBI agents have seized his cell phone.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 8:43 PM CDT
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Television actor Mary Mara has died in an apparently accidental drowning in upstate New York.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 7:23 PM CDT
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The Biden administration has suspended an order that had focused resources for the arrest and deportation of immigrants on those considered a threat to public safety and national security.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 6:45 PM CDT
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California voters will decide in November whether to guarantee the right to an abortion in their state constitution, a question sure to boost turnout on both sides of the debate during a pivotal midterm election year as Democrats try to keep control of Congress after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 6:29 PM CDT
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After a two-hour preliminary hearing, Ventura County Judge David Worley ruled that 40-year-old Jason Allen Alexander should be held to answer on the charge, along with misdemeanor counts of trespassing, vandalism and battery, court records showed.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 4:56 PM CDT
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The new probe could make it more difficult for Trump to finance his social media company.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 4:50 PM CDT
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The Supreme Court is siding with a football coach from Washington state who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 4:15 PM CDT
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For families already strained by inflation and the end of other federal help like expanded child tax credits, advocates say cuts to the aid could mean turning more frequently to food banks.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 3:59 PM CDT
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A heckler who clapped former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the back at a campaign event has been arrested on an assault charge.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 3:59 PM CDT
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Explorers say they found the wreckage of a U.S. Navy destroyer escort that engaged a superior Japanese fleet in the largest sea battle of World War II in the Philippines.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 3:20 PM CDT
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New York City can’t let noncitizens vote for mayor and other city officials, a judge ruled Monday, siding with Republicans who challenged the measure as unconstitutional.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 3:00 PM CDT
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Seven others, including a teacher, also were wounded during the shooting about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Detroit.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 2:39 PM CDT
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The Houston Texans had been told that their former quarterback Deshaun Watson was sexually assaulting and harassing women during massage sessions, but instead of trying to stop him, the team provided him with resources to enable his actions and “turned a blind eye” to his behavior, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 2:02 PM CDT
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In a reversal for President Joe Biden, a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Monday agreed to reconsider its own April ruling that allowed the administration to require federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 12:31 PM CDT
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A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home was released from prison on parole Monday, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 11:48 AM CDT
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The case before the justices involved Carlos Concepcion, who is serving a 19-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to possessing at least five grams of crack cocaine with an intent to distribute.