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Daniel Penny is walked out of the New York Police Department 5th Precinct on May 12 after he surrendered to authorities after being charged with second degree manslaughter in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely.

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  • National

Daniel Penny says he felt no shame after the NYC subway death of Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny broke his silence this weekend — insisting that the confrontation between him and Neely "had nothing to do with race," and he was "not a white supremacist."

May 23, 2023
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  • Juliana Kim
The Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona

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  • Environment

Colorado River states announce breakthrough water sharing deal

A new breakthrough deal for sharing the over-promised Colorado River has been reached by the seven states that share it.

May 22, 2023
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  • Kirk Siegler
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

Meta is fined a record $1.3 billion over alleged EU law violations

Meta faces a record fine from the EU for allegedly breaking Europe's privacy standards.

May 22, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
The Supreme Court and its conservative majority "has been using unsigned and unexplained orders to a degree and in ways which really have no precedent in the court's history," professor Steve Vladek says.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court and 'The Shadow Docket'

A relative rarity until the Trump administration, in just four years, his Trump Justice Department asked the court for emergency relief an astounding 41 times.

May 22, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
A woman holds a sign for Felipe Santos during a remembrance ceremony for missing persons at Cambier Park in Naples on Oct. 25, 2017.

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  • National

Two missing men, one deputy, zero charged. Join us on a pursuit for answers

The podcast The Last Ride examines systemic problems in media and policing and illuminates the deep wounds that are left when no one is held accountable.

May 21, 2023
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  • Janine Zeitlin
GPB News NPR

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  • National

A trans girl will miss graduation because school officials told her to dress as a boy

The Mississippi 17-year-old is not participating in her high school graduation ceremony because school officials told her to dress like a boy and a federal judge did not block the officials' decision.

May 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Demonstrators opposed to partisan gerrymandering hold up representations of congressional districts from North Carolina (left) and Maryland (right) outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

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  • Elections

Is drawing a voting map that helps a political party illegal? Only in some states

A North Carolina court's unusual ruling has highlighted the fact that some states allow voting districts to be drawn in ways that make elections less competitive and help one political party win.

May 20, 2023
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
In this April 11, 2012, file photo, Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, from the "Wizard of Oz" are on display as part of a new exhibit, "American Stories," at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington.

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  • Law

A man is charged in the 2005 theft of Judy Garland's red 'Wizard of Oz' slippers

The case stumped law enforcement for years, despite conducting multiple interviews and identifying suspects. The pair of shoes now rests in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

May 19, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

A D.C. police lieutenant is accused of tipping off a leader of the Proud Boys

Shane Lamond allegedly used his position in the Metropolitan Police Department's Intelligence Branch to share information with Enrique Tarrio, a leader with the far-right extremist group

May 19, 2023
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference.

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  • Arts & Life

Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case

In its 7-2 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court said the late artist infringed on a photographer's copyright when he created a series of works based on an image of the pop star Prince.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Jeffrey Epstein, pictured in 2017, was  a client of Deutsche Bank from 2013 to 2018 — well after he was convicted as a sex offender.

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  • Law

Deutsche Bank settles lawsuit with Epstein accusers for $75 million

Lawyers for the unnamed woman who filed the proposed class action lawsuit called it "the culmination of two law firms conducting more than a decade-long investigation."

May 18, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
The Supreme Court of the United States on Friday, April 21, 2023 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Law

Supreme Court unanimously sides with Twitter in ISIS attack case

The case was brought by plaintiffs who said the social media company aided and abetted terrorism. Based on its opinion, the Supreme Court sent a related case involving Google back to the lower courts.

May 18, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the U.S., has sued a Florida county school board over its decisions to ban and restrict access to books. Joining the lawsuit are five authors, two parents of students and the advocacy group PEN America.

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  • Law

Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing a Florida school board over book bans

Officials in Escambia County, Fla., removed 10 books from school libraries and restricted access to more than 150 others. Writers' advocacy group PEN America calls the lawsuit the first of its kind.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan and
  • Neda Ulaby
On Wednesday, a federal appeals court heard arguments over access to mifepristone, a drug commonly used in a two-pill regimen to provide abortion and miscarriage care.

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  • Law

The abortion pill mifepristone has another day in federal court

While a Supreme Court order continues to ensure the drug is still widely available, the issue returned Wednesday to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals as lawyers for both sides urged the court to act.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 17, 2022.

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  • Law

Elizabeth Holmes loses her latest bid to avoid prison

In another ruling issued late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered Elizabeth Holmes to pay $452 million in restitution to the victims of her crimes.

May 18, 2023
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