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The state of student activism on abortion at Texas A&M

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court's abortion decision, a student group at Texas A&M that promoted abortion rights has seen its membership plummet, while an anti-abortion group is thriving.

April 23, 2023
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo and
  • Janet W. Lee
A South Florida man shot at two Instacart delivery workers who mistakenly drove to the wrong address.

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  • National

A South Florida man shot at 2 Instacart delivery workers who went to the wrong house

Broward County State Attorney Harold F. Pryor called the incident "very disturbing" and said prosecutors would decide whether to file charges after reviewing the case.

April 23, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Officers from the state-run Capitol Police and the city-run Jackson Police Department stand watch outside a Jackson, Miss., church where a community meeting was held to addresses youth crime issues on Feb. 14.

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  • National

The NAACP is suing Mississippi over an expanded role for state-run police in Jackson

The NAACP says "separate and unequal policing" will return to Mississippi's majority-Black capital under a state-run police department.

April 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
An 18-year-old Indiana University student was less than a mile away from the Bloomington campus when an attacker struck her multiple times in the head with a folding knife.

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  • Race

An Indiana woman is charged with a federal hate crime in alleged anti-Asian bus attack

A federal grand jury indicted Billie R. Davis, who is accused of stabbing an 18-year-old university student on a bus in Bloomington "because of the victim's race and national origin," officials said.

April 22, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling on access to mifepristone, a drug widely used in medication abortions. The case was brought to the high court after a federal judge decided earlier this month that the Food and Drug Administration improperly approved the medication 23 years ago.

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  • News

Supreme Court blocks lower court decision in case on FDA approval of abortion pill

The Supreme Court has left the case in the hands of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has scheduled oral arguments in the case for May 17.

April 22, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court's legitimacy is once again being called into question after news broke that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose 20 years of lavish trips paid for by a billionaire Republican donor.

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  • Politics

Congress has clashed with Supreme Court justices over ethics in the past

The Thomas-Crow connection recalls past relationships that caught the attention of Congress, resulting in hearings that undermined a potential chief justice and the court's longest-serving member.

April 22, 2023
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By:
  • Ron Elving
This image provided by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Kim Potter. The former Brooklyn Center police officer is scheduled to be released from prison on Monday.

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  • National

The former Minnesota officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright will be freed Monday

Kim Potter, who was convicted of manslaughter after mistaking her handgun for a Taser in the 2021 incident, is set to be released from prison after serving 16 months. Daunte Wright was 20 years old.

April 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Activists and community members march into the Minnesota State Capitol building during a Trans Day of Visibility rally on March 31, 2023.

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  • National

Minnesota to join at least 4 other states in protecting transgender care this year

In 2023, a record number of states have passed rules or legislation to eliminate youth gender-affirming care, but a record number of states have also moved to protect care for trans youth and adults.

April 22, 2023
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By:
  • Dana Ferguson,
  • Scott Maucione,
  • and 4 more
Peter Manfredonia was sentenced to 55 years in prison for killing two people, injuring another, holding a man hostage and kidnapping a woman in 2020.

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  • National

College student who killed a man with sword sentenced twice to 55 years in prison

Two courts issued separate prison sentences to a man who attacked two people with a samurai sword, fatally shot a former classmate, kidnapped a woman and led police on a six-day manhunt in 2020.

April 22, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
New U.S. Justice Department indictments contain this image of armed gang members allegedly associated with the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa cartel.

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  • National

U.S. says it 'infiltrated' the Sinaloa drug cartel in the fight against fentanyl

In sweeping indictments, the Justice Department targeted two dozen operatives in the Chapitos network of the Sinaloa cartel. But many drug policy experts say this won't slow fentanyl deaths.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Brian Mann
MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell talks to reporters at the Republican National Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif., on Jan. 27.

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  • Law

MyPillow founder Mike Lindell is ordered to pay $5M in election fraud challenge

The election conspiracy theorist said he has no intention of paying the arbitration panel's order of $5 million and that he expects the dispute to land in court.

April 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Law

What the Justice Clarence Thomas scandal says about ethics on the Supreme Court

With news that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose gifts of vacations, luxury experiences and business transactions, there is new scrutiny on the ethics governing the court.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta in September 2022. His family's attorney, Michael Harper, said Thompson's body was covered with insect bite marks.

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  • National

Crump says Kaepernick to pay for autopsy for inmate who died in 'appalling conditions'

The former NFL quarterback is assisting the family of Lashawn Thompson, a Georgia jail inmate who died last year while covered in insects, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
Anti-abortion advocates demonstrate against abortion pills outside the Supreme Court on Friday.

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  • Law

Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone causes uncertainty for advocates

Ahead of the Supreme Court's decision on access to mifepristone, an anti-abortion advocate contends that the most commonly used abortion method is not safe for women.

April 21, 2023
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By:
  • Jan Johnson and
  • Michel Martin
The future middle Georgia home of the GBI Gang Task Force, the Bibb County government known by some as "The Castle."

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  • Law

Macon-Bibb County and the GBI ink deal for a regional gang task force headquarters

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is moving the headquarters of the Middle Georgia branch of the state’s Gang Task Force into a fortress-like Macon-Bibb County government building known by many simply as “The Castle.” 

April 21, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
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