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Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., on Oct. 8, 2022.

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  • Law

Donald Trump deposed in defamation suit filed by E. Jean Carroll

Former President Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a magazine columnist who says he raped her in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.

October 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The office of the California Employment Development Department is seen in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Facing as much as $2 b billion in fraud, the EDD is near the top of California lawmakers fixit list as they prepare to return to the state Capitol in the new year.

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  • National

Pandemic-related fraud totaled billions. California is trying to get some of it back

A special task force is investigating claims and freezing accounts to determine who legitimately qualifies for the relief money. About $20 billion in unemployment money was stolen by criminals.

October 19, 2022
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  • Eric Westervelt
Federal prosecutors say agents found a smashed cell phone in Christian Secor's vehicle while executing a search warrant. The phone case includes the image of Pepe The Frog, a cartoon character that has been appropriated by far-right extremists.

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  • Investigations

A former UCLA student was sentenced to over three years in prison for Capitol riot

Christian Secor, a former UCLA student and follower of the far-right racist livestreamer Nick Fuentes, was sentenced on Wednesday for obstructing congress during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

October 19, 2022
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  • Tom Dreisbach and
  • Allison Mollenkamp
Flowers and candles lay outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022.

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  • National

Online platforms radicalized the Buffalo mass shooting suspect, a new report says

The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.

October 19, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
In this Aug. 8, 2016, file photo, Ibtihaj Muhammad waits for her match at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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  • Law

A New Jersey teacher accused of pulling a student's hijab sues an Olympic fencer

A girl reported to her mother in October 2021 that her teacher had yanked her hijab from her head while at school. The teacher says the Olympian's social media post ruined her reputation and career.

October 19, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Paul Flores looks on at the second day of his preliminary hearing on Aug. 3, 2021. On Tuesday, jurors unanimously found Flores guilty of first-degree murder.

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  • National

A jury convicted Paul Flores of murdering college student Kristin Smart in 1996

Kristin Smart, a college freshman, vanished from a California campus in 1996. Paul Flores was the last person seen with Smart as he walked her home from an off-campus party.

October 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Igor Danchenko leaves the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., on Nov. 4, 2021. On Tuesday, a jury acquitted the think tank analyst of charges that he lied to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump.

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  • Law

An analyst is acquitted of lying to the FBI over the Trump-Russia 'Steele dossier'

A jury acquitted think tank analyst Igor Danchenko, who was accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump.

October 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Lafarge SA paid a nearly $800 million fine over its payments to terrorist groups in Syria in order to keep its cement plant (pictured) in Jalabiya, northern Syria, working.

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  • Law

French cement giant Larfage pleads guilty in U.S. court to paying millions to ISIS

Under an agreement with the Justice Department, Lafarge also pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.

October 18, 2022
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  • Ryan Lucas
Former Trump administration White House adviser Steve Bannon listens as attorney David Schoen speaks to reporters outside of the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal District Court House on Nov. 15, 2021.

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  • Law

DOJ calls for six-month sentence for Trump ally Steve Bannon

The Justice Department said in a court filing it wants to see the former Trump adviser sentenced to six months in prison for not complying with the Jan. 6 committee's investigation.

October 17, 2022
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Actor Kevin Spacey arrives at Federal court for his civil lawsuit trial on Oct. 12 in New York. Spacey is facing a jury in a New York City courtroom during a civil trial accusing him of sexually abusing a 14-year-old actor in the 1980s when he was 26.

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  • Arts & Life

From the witness stand, Kevin Spacey denies sex abuse claims

Actor Anthony Rapp says he was a victim of assault and battery. Rapp says Spacey made a sexual advance on him in the 1980s when he was 14 years old.

October 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
From left, Macon-Bibb County Fire Department Chief Shane Edwards, Bibb County Sheriff David Davis and Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller during the announcement Monday of efforts to hire part time patrol deputies.

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  • Law

Macon-Bibb County will attempt to shore up its deputy ranks with part-time officers

Macon-Bibb County will attempt to shore up its understaffed deputy ranks with part-time officers.

October 17, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court declines to consider challenge to racist citizenship laws

The action dashes hopes of American Samoans who were seeking birthright citizenship and leaves intact a decision that breathed new life into distinctions between U.S. states and territories.

October 17, 2022
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  • Jess Zalph and
  • Nina Totenberg
Michael Anthony Louise, 79, is shown in a booking photo following his arrest on Thursday in Syracuse, N.Y. Louise faces second-degree murder charges in the 1989 deaths of a Vermont couple.

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  • National

A drop of blood and modern DNA test lead to an arrest in a 1989 double murder

A drop of blood that was subjected to modern DNA testing enabled Vermont State Police detectives to make an arrest in the 1989 murder of a couple found stabbed to death in their home, police said.

October 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Trevor Milton (left) leaves the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in New York on Sept. 12. Milton was convicted Friday of deceiving investors with exaggerated claims about his company's progress in producing zero-emission trucks.

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  • Business

The founder of a zero-emission truck venture is found guilty of fraud

Trevor Milton, the wealthy founder of Nikola Corp., was convicted of deceiving investors with exaggerated claims about his company's progress in producing zero-emission 18-wheel trucks.

October 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz reacts at his trial in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Thursday.

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  • National

A juror in the Parkland shooting case says she felt threatened by another juror

Prosecutors in the case of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are calling for an investigation after a juror said she felt threatened by another member of the jury during deliberations.

October 14, 2022
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