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News Articles: Law

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, middle, is flanked behind by Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, left, and Arizona Senate President Warren Petersen, right, at Hobbs' state of the state address on Jan. 9, 2023, in Phoenix.

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  • National

Busing migrants was a partisan lightning rod. Here's why Democrats have embraced it

Republican governors started the practice of transporting migrants from the U.S. southern border, but Democratic leaders have run with it. They say it's a humanitarian service, not a political stunt.

February 06, 2023
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  • Laura Benshoff
Bobbi Wilson holds her collection of spotted lanternflies as she is honored at the Yale School of Public Health on Jan. 20.

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  • Science

Yale honors the work of a 9-year-old Black girl whose neighbor reported her to police

Bobbi Wilson went on a mission to save New Jersey's trees, capturing spotted lanternflies. That frightened her neighbor, who called the cops. Now, her bug collection is part of a Yale museum.

February 04, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
Protesters march Saturday, Jan. 28, in Memphis, Tenn., over the death of Tyre Nichols, who died after being beaten by Memphis police.

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  • National

A 6th Memphis police officer has been fired after the beating death of Tyre Nichols

Preston Hemphill had been suspended as he was investigated for his role in the Jan. 7 arrest of Nichols, who died in a hospital three days later. Five Memphis officers have already been fired.

February 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Sheriff Mike Boudreaux speaks to the media near the scene of a fatal shooting in Visalia, Calif., on Jan. 16. Boudreaux said Friday that two gang members suspected in the massacre of six people last month in central California have been arrested, one after a gunbattle.

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  • National

2 men are arrested in a California shooting that killed 6 people including a baby

Two gang members were arrested early Friday, one after a gunbattle, and charged in the January massacre of six people including a baby at a home associated with a rival gang, a sheriff said.

February 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Majid Khan, a 42-year-old Pakistani man, was released from the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday. Pictured here in 2022, he was sent to Belize after suing for unlawful imprisonment.

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  • Investigations

A Guantánamo inmate was released to Belize after suing for wrongful imprisonment

A 42-year-old Pakistani man who spent nearly half his life in U.S. custody has been released from Guantánamo and resettled in Belize after suing the Biden administration for unlawful imprisonment.

February 03, 2023
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Owners of apartments (seen at right) opposite Tate Modern have won a privacy case against the famous art gallery.

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  • Europe

Tate Modern's terrace is a nuisance for wealthy neighbors, top U.K. court rules

For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change.

February 03, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Indian couple Utkarsh Saxena, left, and Ananya Kotia, chat inside a public park in New Delhi, India, Jan. 18, 2023. The couple, now 15 years into their relationship, is joined by three other couples who have filed a petition to India's Supreme Court that seeks the legalization of same-sex marriage.

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  • Asia

In India, couples begin their legal battle for same-sex marriage

Couples have filed petitions to India's Supreme Court seeking the legalization of same-sex marriage. The decision could make India the second economy in Asia after Taiwan to recognize the unions.

February 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A TikTok official gives a tour of the company's Transparency and Accountability Centers in the Los Angeles area.

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  • Technology

TikTok officials go on a public charm offensive amid a stalemate in Biden White House

The hit video app is facing an existential crisis, and it is hoping promoting its reorganization will help convince Americans that it is independent from its Chinese owner.

February 02, 2023
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  • Bobby Allyn
The lawyer for a leading accuser of R. Kelly says prosecutors shouldn't have dropped charges against Kelly before his appeals of federal criminal convictions were resolved. The singer is seen here in a courthouse in Chicago.

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  • National

An R. Kelly victim says Chicago prosecutor made a mistake in dropping sex abuse case

Jerhonda Pace, who was part of a successful federal case against Kelly in New York as well as the case in Illinois, says Kelly is still fighting to appeal his federal conviction.

February 02, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
The image from video released on Jan. 27, 2023, by the City of Memphis, shows police officers talking after a brutal attack on Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers on Jan. 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tenn. Nichols died on Jan. 10. The five officers have since been fired and charged with second-degree murder and other offenses.

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  • National

4 of the 5 officers charged in Tyre Nichols' death had prior violations at work

Five officers have been indicted over the beating death of Nichols. Four of them had been disciplined earlier by the Memphis police department for car crashes, failure to report use of force and more.

February 01, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
A grand jury indictment says that Josh Sills of the Philadelphia Eagles football team allegedly engaged in nonconsensual sexual activity with a woman and held her against her will in December 2019.

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  • Sports

A Philadelphia Eagles player is indicted on rape and kidnapping charges

Josh Sills, a reserve offensive lineman for the Super Bowl-headed team, was indicted in Ohio on Tuesday. The charges stem from an alleged 2019 incident, when Sills was still in college.

February 01, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

FBI searched Biden's Delaware vacation home as part of classified document probe

No documents with classified markings were found, though Biden's lawyer said "some materials and handwritten notes that appear to relate to his time as vice president" were taken for further review.

February 01, 2023
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  • Washington Desk and
  • Dustin Jones

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  • Law

New bill would set mandatory minimum sentences for gang recruitment

Georgia lawmakers want to increase the sentence for gang recruitment activities as part of a tough-on-crime push under the Gold Dome this legislative session.  

February 01, 2023
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Alec Baldwin attends a news conference at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 21, 2015. The actor has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set in 2021.

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  • National

Prosecutors file charges against Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting on movie set

The actor and a weapons specialist have been formally charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico movie set in 2021.

January 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
New York state records show nearly half the state's 600-plus nursing homes hired real estate, management and staffing companies run or controlled by their owners, frequently paying them well above the cost of services. Meanwhile, in the pandemic's height, the federal government was giving the facilities hundreds of millions in fiscal relief.

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  • Health

Nursing home owners drained cash while residents deteriorated, state filings suggest

As the U.S. government debates whether to require higher staffing levels at nursing homes, financial records show some owners routinely push profits to sister companies while residents are neglected.

January 31, 2023
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  • Jordan Rau
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