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Neighbors embrace on Friday as police continue to investigate  the scene of a shooting that occurred Thursday night in Raleigh, N.C.

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  • Law

Suspect in Raleigh shooting is 15 years old and in critical condition, police say

The victims include three women, a 16-year-old boy and an off-duty police officer, officials said at a news conference Friday morning.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
In <em>Town Destroyer</em>, the debate over a mural leads to an outpouring of activism and opinions about how to look at art and how to confront racism in America.

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  • Arts & Life

When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what stays on the wall

Students of color at a high school, a law school and two universities have objected to the way historical murals have portrayed Native Americans and African Americans.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Kalish
GPB News NPR

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  • Technology

Google is now distributing Truth Social, Trump's Twitter alternative

It is an about-face for the tech giant, which had blocked Trump's social media app from Google Play, its app store, over content that can incite violence.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn

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  • Law

Supreme Court turns away Trump objections in Mar-a-Lago classified documents case

The court's action was announced even as the Jan. 6 committee was conducting its last public hearing focused on Trump's role in the violence at the Capitol after the election.

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial last month in Waterbury, Conn.

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  • Education

Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $1 billion over his Sandy Hook lies. Will he?

Conspiracy theory provocateur Alex Jones has been ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. But will they ever see that money?

October 14, 2022
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By:
  • Becky Sullivan
Comedians Clayton English, center, and Eric Andre, right, speak with their attorney, Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, on Tuesday outside the federal courthouse in Atlanta.

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  • Law

Comedians Eric André and Clayton English allege racial profiling at Atlanta's airport

The say officers stopping passengers on the bridges from the gate to the plane, questioning them, and searching their bags is unconstitutional. The suit stems from separate incidents in 2020 and 2021.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Ahn
The U.S. House Select Committee members voted on Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify as part of its investigation.

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  • Politics

The Jan. 6 committee votes unanimously to subpoena Trump

All nine members of the committee voted to subpoena the former president to testify before them. Presidential subpoenas are complicated but not unprecedented.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman and
  • Emily Olson
Priti Krishtel, a 2022 MacArthur fellowship winner, says of her work to create fair drug prices for the world: "I just don't think that people's ability to heal should depend on their ability to pay." Her father worked in the pharmaceutical industry and inspired in her a love of science and finding cures.

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  • Global Health

This MacArthur 'genius' grantee says she isn't a drug price rebel but she kind of is

Health justice lawyer Priti Krishtel doesn't believe your ability to heal should depend on your ability to pay. Her mission is to reform the patent system that drug companies use to block competition.

October 13, 2022
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  • Max Barnhart
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

A jury decides Alex Jones owes nearly $1 billion for Sandy Hook lies

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered by a Connecticut jury Wednesday to pay nearly 1 billion dollars to the relatives of eight Sandy Hook victims and a former FBI agent.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Frankie Graziano
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz tugs at his shirt collar at the defense table for the verdict in his trial at the Broward County Courthouse on Thursday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The jury recommended Cruz receive a life sentence.

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  • National

A jury recommends life in prison for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz

Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in the rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018. Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to first-degree murder.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
A 22-year-old Ohio man admitted in federal court that he planned a mass shooting at an Ohio university in 2020, according to the Justice Department.

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  • National

An Ohio man pleads guilty to plotting a mass shooting of college women in 2020

The suspect expressed admiration for Elliot Rodger, the gunman who killed six people and injured 14 others in Isla Vista in May 2014, according to the DOJ.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

The Supreme Court hears pork industry's case against an animal welfare law

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case in which the pork industry is challenging the constitutionality of a California animal welfare law.(Story aired on ATC on Oct. 11, 2022.)

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, is among the defendants at the trial.

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  • Law

Key moments from the Oath Keepers trial

Every trial has its own peculiar rhythms. The first seditious conspiracy case to stem from the Capitol riot is no exception.

October 13, 2022
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
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. A federal district court judge found that Warhol's series is "transformative" because it conveys a different message from the original, and thus is fair use. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed.

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  • Law

Supreme Court dives into pop culture with Warhol, Prince and Norman Lear

The question in the case was whether Andy Warhol's renditions of Prince were transformative under the copyright law, and thus do not infringe on photographer Lynn Goldsmith's copyright.

October 12, 2022
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
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. A federal district court judge found that Warhol's series is "transformative" because it conveys a different message from the original, and thus is fair use. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel disagreed.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court meets Andy Warhol, Prince and a case that could threaten creativity

Images Andy Warhol created of Prince are at the heart of a case the Supreme Court will examine on Wednesday. Warhol used a black-and-white portrait taken by Lynn Goldsmith as a reference point.

October 12, 2022
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  • Nina Totenberg
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